Proceedings of the American Chemical Society, Volumes 1-2

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Page 15 - The order of business at the regular meetings of the Society shall be as follows : 1. Reading of the minutes of the last meeting. . 2. Reports of Council and Committees.
Page 145 - But such a personification of "force" is a remnant of barbaric thought, in no wise sanctioned by physical science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances...
Page 3 - ... period of time by that detonation ; the latter being, in fact, analogous in its operation to that of a blow from a hammer, or of the impact of a projectile.
Page 200 - When the free ammonia exceeds 0.08 parts per million, it almost invariably proceeds from the fermentation of urea into carbonate of ammonia, and is a sign • that the water in question consists of diluted urine in a very recent condition.
Page 3 - The explanation offered of these exceptional results is to the effect that the vibrations attendant upon a particular explosion, if synchronous with those which would result from the explosion of a neighbouring substance in a state of high chemical tension will, by their tendency to...
Page 151 - College professor that the showers of shooting stars were first scientifically discussed, on the occasion of the grand American display of that meteoric phenomenon in 1833? Did we not join in the investigations respecting terrestrial magnetism instituted by European governments at the suggestion of Humboldt, and contribute our quota to the results obtained? Did not the Congress of the United States vote a money grant to carry into effect the invention of the electric telegraph?
Page 149 - ... evolution, none the less real though it may be of an artificial kind. If we reflect carefully on these things, bearing in mind what is now known of the course of development in the animal series, we shall not fail to remark what a singular interest gathers round these artificial developments — artificial they can scarcely be called, since they themselves have arisen interiorly. They are the result of intellectual acts. Man has been developing himself. He, so far as the earth is concerned, is...
Page 250 - There should be superadded evidence •which would remove the doubt, and if the analysis be necessary for the purpose, it should be made. The milk supposed to be adulterated and offered for sale can be purchased and so tested that the result must be certain beyond a reasonable doubt. The testimony given on the trial herein and presented on this appeal establishes clearly that such a test can be made. It may be troublesome, but the Board of Health seems to be vested with the necessary power to have...
Page 149 - We must acknowledge with shame our inferiority to other people," says one. " We have done nothing," says another. Well, if all this be true, we ought perhaps to look to the condition of our colleges for an explanation. But we must not forget that many of these humiliating accusations are made by persons who are not of authority in the matter ; who, because they are ignorant of what has been done, think that nothing has been done. They mistake what is merely a blank in their own information for a...
Page 151 - States vote a money grant to carry into effect the invention of the electric telegraph? Does not the published flora of the United States show that something has been done in botany ? Have not very important investigations been made here on the induction of magnetism in iron, the effect of magnetic currents on one another, the translation of quantity into intensity, and the converse ? Was it not here that the radiations of incandescence were first investigated, the connection of increasing temperature...

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