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absorbed acetic acetic acid action affinity albumen alcohol alkalies allotropic ammonia amount animal atmosphere atoms becomes blood bodies boiling bromine burning called carbonic acid cellulin changes charcoal chemical chemist chemistry chloric acid chlorine chlorohydric acid coal cold color colorless combination combustion common salt composition compounds condensed consists constituents contains copper crystals decomposed decomposition dissolved distillation earth effect electricity elements Equiv ether fibrin flame force gases gives glass grains heat hence hydrogen insoluble iodine iron juice light lime liquid magnetic matter melted mercury metals mineral motion nature nitric acid nitrogen obtained odor organic oxide oxygen particles phosphorus plants plate polar potash potassium principle produced properties proportion quantity radicle rays rise sesquioxide silica silver soda soil solid soluble solution specific gravity starch steam substances sugar sulphate sulphuric acid surface temperature tion tube vapor vegetable vessel weight wire zinc
Popular passages
Page 15 - Time's noblest offspring is the last," our civilization should be the noblest; for we are "The heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time...
Page 173 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Page 173 - By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally brought to that great question which has so often been the subject of speculation among philosophers, namely, what is heat? Is there any such thing as an igneous fluid? Is there anything that can with propriety be called caloric?
Page 56 - Barium Beryllium Bismuth Boron Bromine Cadmium Caesium Calcium Carbon Cerium Chlorine Chromium Cobalt Copper...
Page 136 - High on their iron poles they pass; Mute, lest the air, convulsed by sound, Rend from above a frozen mass...
Page 120 - I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer; I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them...
Page 165 - ... his researches to a conviction of the polar nature of the forces of chemical affinity, has expressed their character in a more general manner, and without any of the machinery of particles indued with poles. According to his view, chemical synthesis and analysis must always be conceived as taking place in virtue of equal and opposite forces, by which the particles are united or separated. These forces, by the very circumstance of their being polar, may be transferred from point to point. For...
Page 26 - ... in the course of instruction. From these schools a more vigorous generation will come forth, powerful in understanding, qualified to appreciate and to accomplish all that is truly great, and to bring forth fruit of universal usefulness.
Page 234 - Revolution, was eminently favorable to scientific changes, and an improved system of chemistry was introduced, which was the more cordially welcomed that it was clothed in the simple and rational attire of a new and admirable language. In accordance with the dramatic spirit of the times, at a festival, 'Madame LAVOISIER, robed as a priestess, committed to the flames on an altar, while a solemn requiem was chanted, the phlogistic system of chemistry.
Page 199 - ... it bears the same relation to glass, that an oratorio of Handel does to the cries of a market-place. The ice is music, the glass is noise ; the ice is order, the glass is confusion. In the glass, molecular forces constitute an inextricably entangled skein...