The Student's Chemistry ...Wm H. Allen and Company, 1869 - 347 pagina's |
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alloy Aluminum Ammonia Ammonium Hydrogen Antimony Arsenic Arsenicum atmosphere atom Barium basic oxide Bismuth blue boiling Boracic Boron Bromine burning Calcium candles Carbonic anhydride charcoal chloric acid coal coal-gas Cobalt colour colourless gas combustion compound contains cooling Copper crystals CUPREOUS Cupric CYANIDE decomposed dissolves distillation elements employed Ferric Ferrous flame fluoride fusible gases glass Gold Grammes H₂O hydrate hydride Hydro Hydrochloric acid Hydrogen sulphide insoluble in water IODIDE Iodine Iron Lead light liquid Magnesium MANGANOUS melted mercury metal mineral mixture moisture Nickel nitrate Nitric acid Nitrogen obtained OXY-CHLORIDE oxydizes Oxygen peroxide PHOSPHATE Phosphorus PLATINIC CHLORIDE Platinum Potassium chlorate Potassium hydrate precipitate prepared pressure prisms properties quantity readily red-heat RHODIUM salts Silicic anhydride Silicon Silver Soap Sodium carbonate Sodium chloride soluble solution STANNIC Strontium substance sulphate Sulphuric acid Sulphurous anhydride surface temperature TESTS tube unites vapour volatile volume weight yellow Zinc
Populaire passages
Pagina 102 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it : as thus : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Pagina 89 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains He giveth to the beast his food, And to the young ravens which cry.
Pagina 30 - And yet it is so mobile, that we have lived years in it before we can be persuaded that it exists at all, and the great bulk of mankind never realize the truth that they are bathed in an ocean of air.
Pagina 221 - A body weighed in water loses as much of its weight as is equal to that of the water it. displaces ; so that were this water put into the scale to which the body is suspended, it would restore the balance.
Pagina 31 - ... creature space to find a place of rest and nestle to repose. In the morning the garish sun would, at one bound, burst from the bosom of night, and blaze above the horizon ; but the air watches for his coming, and sends at first but one little ray to announce his approach, and then another, and...
Pagina 31 - We touch it not, but it touches us : its warm south wind brings back color to the pale face of the invalid ; its cool west winds refresh the fevered brow, and make the blood mantle in our cheeks ; even its north blasts brace into new vigor the hardened children of our rugged clime.
Pagina 31 - But for it, the rainbow would want its triumphal arch, and the winds would not send their fleecy messengers on errands round the heavens ; the cold ether would not shed its snow feathers on the earth, nor would drops of dew gather on the flowers.
Pagina 31 - ... nor fog diversify the face of the sky. Our naked globe would turn its tanned and unshadowed forehead to the sun, and one dreary monotonous blaze of light and heat dazzle and burn up all things.
Pagina 6 - is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensation is heat in the object is nothing but motion...
Pagina 183 - ... existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight.