Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, for [1850]-71, Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, Biology, Botany, Mineralogy, Meteorology, Geography, Antiquities, Etc., Together with Notes on the Progress of Science ... a List of Recent Scientific Publications; Obituaries of Eminent Scientific Men, Etc. ...Gould and Lincoln, 1865 |
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... duced artificially , it is obviously doubtful whether we can tell what substances dlo , or do not , produce the fixed lines visible in the solar spectrum . the Deepening of the Mouths ; based upon Surveys and XVI NOTES BY THE EDITOR.
... duced artificially , it is obviously doubtful whether we can tell what substances dlo , or do not , produce the fixed lines visible in the solar spectrum . the Deepening of the Mouths ; based upon Surveys and XVI NOTES BY THE EDITOR.
Pagina 49
... substances : - Formula No. 1.- 30 parts ( by weight ) of peroxyd of tin , 2 per- oxyd of manganese , 10 Venetian red , 5 Paris white , 3 rice starch , 8 gum arabic , 2 bichromate of ammonia . Formula No. 2. - 20 parts ( by weight ) of ...
... substances : - Formula No. 1.- 30 parts ( by weight ) of peroxyd of tin , 2 per- oxyd of manganese , 10 Venetian red , 5 Paris white , 3 rice starch , 8 gum arabic , 2 bichromate of ammonia . Formula No. 2. - 20 parts ( by weight ) of ...
Pagina 54
... substances . In order to obtain cheap gun - cotton , the patentees state it may be made of rags instead of new cotton . It is first dissolved in any of its solvents , such as ether and alcohol , and becomes collodion . To this is now ...
... substances . In order to obtain cheap gun - cotton , the patentees state it may be made of rags instead of new cotton . It is first dissolved in any of its solvents , such as ether and alcohol , and becomes collodion . To this is now ...
Pagina 57
... substances exert no power . It appears that the more porosity a filtering medium possesses in itself , the more rapidly does it filter , and the greater is the effect it produces on the water . The latter will be still more decided when ...
... substances exert no power . It appears that the more porosity a filtering medium possesses in itself , the more rapidly does it filter , and the greater is the effect it produces on the water . The latter will be still more decided when ...
Pagina 59
... substance of the specification , as published in Newton's London Journal of Arts : Gluten is obtained by kneading wheat flour paste with water . During the operation of kneading , the feculent part of the paste is carried off with the ...
... substance of the specification , as published in Newton's London Journal of Arts : Gluten is obtained by kneading wheat flour paste with water . During the operation of kneading , the feculent part of the paste is carried off with the ...
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Pagina 413 - Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
Pagina 413 - The Camel : His Organization, Habits and Uses, considered with reference to his introduction into the United States.
Pagina v - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 146 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space of action, involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping forever.
Pagina viii - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Pagina 62 - ... the glasses are taken off and wiped every day, and before they are put on again, the match is applied to the lip of the burner, and the stopcock cautiously opened, so that no more gas escapes than is sufficient to make a ring of blue flame, the glasses being then put on quite straight, the stopcocks are gently turned, until the flames stand at three inches high. When this is done, few chimney-glasses will be broken, and the ceilings will not be blackened for years.
Pagina 197 - Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality. To the gradual manner in which colloidal changes take place (for they always demand time as an element), may the...
Pagina 411 - POLITICAL ECONOMY ABRIDGED, and adapted to the use of Schools and Academies, by the Author.
Pagina 412 - HEADSHIP OF CHRIST, and the Rights of the Christian People, a Collection of Personal Portraitures, Historical and Descriptive Sketches and Essays, with the Author's celebrated Letter to Lord Brougham.
Pagina 197 - Another eminently characteristic quality of colloids, is their mutability. Their existence is a continued metastasis. A colloid may be compared in this respect to water while existing liquid at a temperature below its usual freezing point, or to a supersaturated saline solution.