 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1843 - 530 pages
...air on every English square foot. : 3306 billion English Ibs. WATERY VAPOUK IN THE ATMOSPHERE. 205 weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exists upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for... | |
 | Robert Rigg - 1844 - 292 pages
...calculation it can be shown that the atmosphere contains 3000 billion lbs. of carbon, — a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | 674 pages
...calculates from these data that the atmosphere contains 3085 billion pounds of carbon, amounting, he says, to more than the weight of all the plants, and of...strata of mineral and brown coal existing on the earth ; and hence, more than sufficient to supply all the purposes of vegetation. i'he lecturer concluded... | |
 | W F. Whitehouse - 1845 - 366 pages
...contains 3000 billion Hessian Ibs. of carbon — a quantity which amounts to the weight of more than all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which The atmosphere, the exist upon the earth. This carbon is, theretme^ourQe of carbon sa fore, more... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1846 - 144 pages
...sufficient carbon for the sup. pi; of the whole vegetable kingdom iAPPLICATIONS OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE. 109 than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1852 - 424 pages
...atmosphere contains 3306 billion Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight ot all the plants, and' of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which... | |
 | George Fownes - 1853 - 132 pages
...atmosphere contains upwards of 3081 billion pounds of carbon—a quantity which, according to Liebig, amounts to more than the weight of all the plants,...mineral and brown coal existing on the earth. This carbon is therefore more than adequate to supply all the purposes for which it is required. The quantity... | |
 | Gustav Bischof - 1854 - 488 pages
...2,800 billion pounds of carbon which the present atmosphere contains in the state of carbonic acid, amounts to more than the weight of all the plants and of the known coal-beds upon the whole earth. If this quantity were distributed over the earth's surface,... | |
 | 1866 - 642 pages
...acknowledged. Liebig states, in his " Chemistry in its Application to Agriculture and Physiology " (jrd edition), that the quantity of carbon existing in...assumed more carbonic gas to exist in the atmosphere (fròis by weight) than many authorities would allow. Moreover, since the book was written enormous... | |
 | 1861 - 236 pages
...yet it contains upwards of 3,0bl billions of pounds of it; a quantity" according to Liebig, "which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants,...of mineral and brown coal existing on the earth." That coal is of vegetable origin, there is now no doubt whatever. All the stages between perfect wood... | |
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Ibs. of carbon ; a quantity which amounts to more than the weight of all the plants, and of all the strata of mineral and brown coal, which exist upon the earth. This carbon is, therefore, more than adequate to all the purposes for which it is required. 
