 Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature. The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited...  On Molecular and Microscopic Science - Page 54by Mary Somerville - 1869 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1863 - 728 pages
...absorbs eighty times as much heat as the collective 200 particles of air. Remove, says Professor Tyndall, for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant incapable of bearing extreme cold. The warmth... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 910 pages
...blanket, not less necessary for the fruitful earth than clothing is for earth's proudest inhabitant. " Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing... | |
 | 1863 - 682 pages
...blanket, not leu necessary for the fruitful earth than clothing is for earth's proudest inhabitant. 'Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing... | |
 | 1863 - 680 pages
...blanket, not loss necessary for the fruitful earth than clothing is for earth's proudest inhabitant. ' Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overipreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 626 pages
...aqueous vapour is a blanket more necessary to the vegetable life of England than clothing is to men. Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1864 - 1112 pages
...absorbs 80 times as much heat as the collective 200 particles of air. Remove, says Professor Tyndall, for a single summer night, the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this countiy, and you would assuredly destroy every plant incapable of bearing extreme cold. The warmth... | |
 | William George Baron Armstrong, Isaac Lowthian Bell, John Taylor, Thomas Richardson - 1864 - 480 pages
...absorbs 80 times as much heat as the collective 200 particles of air. Remove, says Professor Tyndall, for a single summer night, the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant incapable of bearing extreme cold. The warmth... | |
 | Albert J. T. Morris - 1866 - 116 pages
...heat than that absorbed by one similar particle of air. Professor Tyndall says that " if you were to remove, for a single summer night, the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads these islands, you would assuredly destroy every plant which is not capable of bearing extreme cold.... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1868 - 886 pages
...Aqueous vapour is a blanket more necessary to the vegetable life of England, thnn clothing is to man. Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature would perish. The... | |
 | John Hughes Bennett - 1870 - 466 pages
..." Aqueous vapour is a blanket more necessary to the vegetable life of England than clothing to man. Remove, for a single summer night, the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature would perish. The... | |
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