 | 1851 - 510 pages
...they are composed is afforded by the recent discoveries of Pasteur, which may now be almost (raced to a law, enunciated thus : that where a substance...invited attention to the interesting nature of M. Biot's investigation of the action of tartaric acid in solution in water, and he showed that here the... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1854 - 492 pages
...pointed out, as established long ago by the acute observation of Sir J. Herschel, that the plagiedral facettes of quartz indicated, by their relative positions...invited attention to the interesting nature of M. Biot's investigation of the action of tartaric acid in solution in water, and he showed that here the... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1854 - 492 pages
...were found in every single property, but this rotation, identical with one another and with tartarie acid. Yet when mixed they formed again the Paratartaric...invited attention to the interesting nature of M. Biot's investigation of the action of tartaric acid in solution in water, and he showed that here the... | |
 | 1851 - 1228 pages
...former turbid. Mr. Maskelyne then detailed the experiments of M. Pasteur on malic and aspartic acids end asparagine, and showed how all of these could be understood...molecule. He also dwelt on the possibility of the paratartanic acid being a quadribasic as the tartaric acid is a bibasic acid ; it being on this view... | |
 | 1851 - 614 pages
...how all of these could be understood to contain chemically a molecular unit common to all these aud perhaps to tartaric acid, and only modified a little by the superposition as it were ol other substances, In combination with it, upon the extremities of its molecule. He also dwelt on... | |
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Paratartrate of soda and ammonia into two several sets ; the one set he showed to be hemihedric to the right, the other set to the left. The former proved to be the salt of an acid rotating to the right, the latter of one rotating to the left. On examining... 