 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 666 pages
...those peculiar metals •which constitute the alcaline and earthy bases, and we are possessed of ull that is wanted to produce the tremendous effects of...which such a concurrence of circumstances would give risa to, and which are the actual concomitants of volcanic eruptions ? From the same source the Huttonian... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 256 pages
...acquainted with all that is necessary to produce the tremendous effects of volcanoes and earthquakes ; for what power can resist the expansive force of steam,...of gaseous fluids, accompanied by torrents of the earth's igneous fusion, which such a concurrence of circumstances would give rise to, and which are... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 488 pages
...have only to suppose the access of water to large masses of those peculiar metals which constitute ihe alcaline and earthy bases, and we are possessed of...are the actual concomitants of volcanic eruptions?" Upon the analysis and composition of soils, Mr Brando has extracted largely from sir H. Davy's Elements... | |
 | 1823 - 624 pages
...the combustible, such matters were not likely to be produced from sulphur or coal. The discoveries of Sir H. Davy have enlightened this, as well as every...are the actual concomitants of volcanic eruptions ?" All the difficulty of accounting for the expansive force, the intense continuance of heat, its occasional... | |
 | 1827 - 404 pages
...the combustible, such matters were not likely to be produced from sulphur or coal. The discoveries of Sir H. Davy have enlightened this, as well as every...are the actual concomitants of volcanic eruptions?" All the difficulty of accounting for the expansive force, the intense continuance of heat, its occasional... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1834 - 248 pages
...acquainted with all that is necessary to produce the tremendous effects of volcanoes and earthquakes; for what power can resist the expansive force of steam,...of gaseous fluids, accompanied by torrents of the earth's igneous fusion, to which such a concurrence of circumstances would give rise, and which are... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 502 pages
...takes but a brief notice of volcanoes, and considers that, from the discoveries of sir H. Davy, \ve may ' deduce a very adequate solution of the problem...concurrence of circumstances would give rise to, and which arc the actual concomitants of volcanic eruptions?" JVew Series, Ao. 10. 48 Upon the analysis and composition... | |
| |
Davy have enlightened this, as well as every other branch of chemistry ; and from them we may deduce a very adequate solution of the problem of volcanoes : for we have only to suppose the access of water to large masses of those peculiar metals which... 