 ... 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...  Heat: A Mode of Motion - Page 147by John Tyndall - 1868 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 452 pages
...yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity which a child could carry, of that tender material, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell.' But it is when we come to estimate the fall of rain as a terrestrial phenomenon — as a process continually... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 pages
...yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity, which a child could carry, of that tender material, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell."* Now, any one who reads over this passage carefully, will see that it expresses the exact opposite of... | |
 | 1876 - 814 pages
...composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity which a child could carry of that tender material, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them twice the height from which they fell." t When galvanic... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...yet to produce from aqueous vapour a quantity, which a child could carry, of that tender material, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." CAPACITY FOR HEAT. This term, which is most simple and useful, expresses a fact that has been forced... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 832 pages
...composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapour a quantity which a child could carry of that tender material demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." VOL. XXXv.... | |
 | smith elder - 1877 - 802 pages
...composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapour a quantity which a child could carry of that tender material demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." CHAPTER... | |
 | Zachariah Allen - 1879 - 272 pages
...spangles. Yet to produce from aeriform gases a quantity of that tender material, which a child might lift, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone-avalanches I have ever seen, and project thern^ to twice the height from which they fell." 1... | |
 | 1880 - 920 pages
...yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity which a child could carry of that tender material, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." Do you not think now that the treasurehouse of snow is a noble mansion to enter into ? Yet, so far... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pages
...yet to produce, from aqueous vapor, a quantity, which a child could carry, of that tender material, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...A few experimental illustrations of the calorific efFio. 41. fects which accompany the change of aggregation will not be out of place here. I place the... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1882 - 238 pages
...yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity which a child could carry of that tender material, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell " (Tyndall). XXX. THE DECOMPOSITION OF WATER. RESUME. 1132. Now suppose that, after we have converted... | |
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