Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, Volum 10

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Pàgina 300 - Having thus described the nature of my invention, and the manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the...
Pàgina 33 - Stevenson, president, in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr.
Pàgina 106 - Waterloo, and of the Crimea; already from the catacombs of Sicily she has carried away the skeletons of many successive generations.
Pàgina 137 - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY : being a preparatory View of the Forces which concur to the Production of Chemical Phenomena. By J. FREDERIC DANIELL, FRS Professor of Chemistry in King's College, London ; and Lecturer on Chemistry and Geology in the Hon. East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe ; and Author of Meteorological Essays.
Pàgina 95 - ... and heat the whole to ebullition. When the lac is dissolved, cool the solution, and impregnate it with chlorine, till the lac is all precipitated. The precipitate is white, but its colour...
Pàgina 115 - The composition of urine varies greatly in different individuals, and in the same individual at different times, and is influenced by diet, exercise, state of health, &c., as shown by Dr.
Pàgina 142 - When there, it may be subjected to deoxidating processes, so that the nitrogen, being left in a free state, may be driven upwards by the expansive force of heat and steam, or by hydrostatic pressure. This theory has been very generally adopted, as best accounting for the constant disengagement of large bodies of nitrogen, even where the rocks through which the spring rises are crystalline and unfossiliferous. It will, however, of course be admitted, as Prof.
Pàgina 134 - Heat — Its sources, expansion — Thermometers — relations between different scales in common use, difference between temperature and quantity of heat, specific and latent heat, calorimeters, liquefaction, ebullition, evaporation, conduction, convection, radiation...
Pàgina 141 - ... which are copiously evolved for days, sometimes for weeks, in succession from craters during an eruption. But we shall perhaps be asked whether, when we contrast the work done by the two agents in question, there is not a marked failure of analogy in one respect — namely a want, in the case of the hot spring, of power to raise from great depths in the earth voluminous masses of solid matter corresponding to the heaps of scoriœ and streams of lava which the volcano pours out on the surface.
Pàgina 144 - ... or fluids begin to part with some of their heat. Almost everything, save the alkaline metals, silica, and certain gases, may thus be left behind long before the spring reaches the earth's surface. If this theory be adopted, it will follow that the metalliferous portion of a fissure, originally thousands of feet or fathoms deep, will never be exposed in regions accessible to the miner until it has been upheaved by a long series of convulsions, and until the higher parts of the same rent, together...

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