| National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 670 pages
...tingle I RADICAL. RADNORSHIRE. 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.1' (See Sus; also "Heat a Mode of Motion," by Professor Tyndall, London, 1870; "Watt's... | |
| William T. Jeans - 1887 - 356 pages
...a single summer night," he said, " the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable...frost." The aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam, which deepens the temperature at the earth's surface, but which finally overflows and gives to space... | |
| Mark Robinson Wright - 1887 - 294 pages
...a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you will assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed...itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise on an island held fast in the iron grip of frost. The aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam by which... | |
| Mark Robinson Wright - 1892 - 262 pages
...for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air that overspreads this country, and you will assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed...itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise on an island held fast in the iron grip of frost. The aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam by which... | |
| John Howard Appleton - 1897 - 222 pages
...overspreads this country, and every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature would perish. The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself...upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost." * 2d. In the arts. — In a multitude of manufacturing processes water in considerable quantity is... | |
| Arthur Thomas Simmons - 1897 - 516 pages
...temperature. The warmth of our fields id gardens would pour itself unrequited into space, and the m would rise upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost, he aqueous vapour constitutes a local dam, by which the temïrature of the earth's surface is deepened... | |
| Arthur Thomas Simmons - 1898 - 508 pages
...man. Remove for a single summer night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable...constitutes a local dam, by which the temperature of the earth's surface is deepened : the dam, however, finally overflows, and we give to space all... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 456 pages
...summer's night the aqueous vapor from the air which overspreads this country [England], and you will assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature." 125. Theory of Exchanges. Every body, whatever its temperature, is constantly radiating heat at a rate... | |
| Alfred Payson Gage - 1902 - 394 pages
...summer's night the aqueous vapor from the air which overspreads the country [England], and you will assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature. — TTNDAI/L, ALL BODIES EMIT RADIATIONS 263 the radiations given out in turn by the earth are such... | |
| 1910 - 642 pages
...overspreads this country, and every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature would perish. The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself...upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost." Given that in Mars, as appears from the latest investigations, water vapour is present, and in larger... | |
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