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Page 265 - It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
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Page 26 - ... dissolved in water, to which a few drops of nitric acid have been added — will be found most convenient.
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Page 249 - I will, therefore, only quote the public tribute to his memory which was offered at the time of his death in 1883: 'The nation at large has lost a faithful servant, chief among those who live only to better the life of their fellow-men by subduing the forces of Nature to their use. Looking back along the line of England's scientific worthies, there are few who have served the people better than this, her adopted son — few, if any, whose life's record' will show so long a list of useful labours.
Page 262 - on laying some of the first results obtained from this six-pound converter before Mr. Martin of Blaenavon, he at once recognised their importance, and from that time we have been deeply indebted to him for his unfailing and consistent support and much valuable advice and assistance.
Page 249 - Committee to inquire into the provisions for giving instruction in • theoretical and applied science to the industrial classes.
Page 238 - Statique Chimique, it appeared that the action, of what for the moment I may be permitted to classify as the action of traces upon masses, was in a fair way to be elucidated for the following reason. Berthollet pointed out that " in comparing the action of bodies on each other which depends on their affinities and mutual proportions, the influence of mass has to be considered." Unfortunately in succeeding years the views of Prout, the courteous opponent of Berthollet, prevailed, mainly through the...
Page 254 - The Roasting of Lead Ores. — Blast Furnace Smelting ; Principles, Practice, and Examples ; Products.— Flue Dust, its Composition, Collection and Treatment.— Costs and Losses, Purchase of Ores.— Treatment of Zinc, Lead Sulphides, Desilverisation, Softening an!
Page 74 - Sir George Stokes has been good enough to consider the problem and writes as follows : — " Let V be the volume of the vessel, A the area of an aperture by which the air is conceived as rushing out with the velocity v, p the density of the air in the vessel at the time t, D the initial density, that is, the atmospheric density. " Then, according to our hypothesis...