Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science: Illustrated with 100 Plates, Volum 4R. Wilks, 1815 |
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Pàgina 8
... equal bulks of air and nitrous gas in a low jar , and to transfer the mixture into a narrow graduated glass tube about three feet long , in order to mea . sure the diminution of bulk . He expressed this diminution by the number of ...
... equal bulks of air and nitrous gas in a low jar , and to transfer the mixture into a narrow graduated glass tube about three feet long , in order to mea . sure the diminution of bulk . He expressed this diminution by the number of ...
Pàgina 11
... equal parts , having an interval of one line between each division . The use of this tube is to measure the portion of air to be employed in the experiment . The tube is filled with wa . ter ; and by allowing the water to run out ...
... equal parts , having an interval of one line between each division . The use of this tube is to measure the portion of air to be employed in the experiment . The tube is filled with wa . ter ; and by allowing the water to run out ...
Pàgina 12
... equal bukks of the air to be examined and of hydrogen gas , ascertain the diminution of bulk after combus tion , divide it by three , the quotient represents the number of measures of oxygen in the air . A great number of trials , in ...
... equal bukks of the air to be examined and of hydrogen gas , ascertain the diminution of bulk after combus tion , divide it by three , the quotient represents the number of measures of oxygen in the air . A great number of trials , in ...
Pàgina 15
... equal parts . Since it cannot be doubted that the atmosphere always contains water , there are only two points which remain to be investigated : 1. The state in which that water exists in air ; 2. The quantity which a given bulk ...
... equal parts . Since it cannot be doubted that the atmosphere always contains water , there are only two points which remain to be investigated : 1. The state in which that water exists in air ; 2. The quantity which a given bulk ...
Pàgina 26
... equal to that of about 30 inches of mercury , is doubled by the addition of an equal pressure . In the same manner the density of the air in a diving - bell is doubled at the depth of 34 feet below the surface of the water , and tripled ...
... equal to that of about 30 inches of mercury , is doubled by the addition of an equal pressure . In the same manner the density of the air in a diving - bell is doubled at the depth of 34 feet below the surface of the water , and tripled ...
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Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ..., Volum 4 Edward T W. Polehampton Visualització completa - 1815 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 508 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Pàgina 90 - Ninety-seven ice hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one above another till they were lost in the clouds.
Pàgina 255 - It was in vain to think of flying ; the swiftest horse, or fastest sailing ship could be of no use to carry us out of this danger; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood, and let the camels gain on me so much in my state of lameness, that it was with some difficulty I could overtake them.
Pàgina 255 - ... majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds...
Pàgina 92 - The wild rocks raised their lofty summits till they were lost in the clouds, and the valleys lay covered with everlasting snow. Not a tree was to be seen, nor a shrub even big enough to make a toothpick.
Pàgina 305 - This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover, so that the silk ribbon may not be wet ; and care must be taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the door or window.
Pàgina 93 - ... a country doomed by nature never once to feel the warmth of the sun's rays, but to lie buried in everlasting snow and ice.
Pàgina 509 - Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone Fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain), Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro : Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Pàgina 255 - We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand...
Pàgina 306 - And when the rain has wet the. kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle.