Chemistry of the Four Seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter: An Essay, Principally Concerning Natural Phenomena Admitting of Interpretation by Chemical Science, and Illustrating Passages of ScriptureLea and Blanchard, 1846 - 451 pages |
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... glass ; a tri- angular prism of this invaluable compound probably elicits the phenomenon in the greatest perfection and beauty attainable by human skill ; hence the term Pris- matic colors applied to the Red , Orange , Yellow , Green ...
... glass ; a tri- angular prism of this invaluable compound probably elicits the phenomenon in the greatest perfection and beauty attainable by human skill ; hence the term Pris- matic colors applied to the Red , Orange , Yellow , Green ...
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... the addition of or , water . To render this more intelligible , or to represent , upon a magnified scale , the grains of sand and their inter- Fig . 5 . MA stices , a large glass may be filled with marbles SPRING . 47.
... the addition of or , water . To render this more intelligible , or to represent , upon a magnified scale , the grains of sand and their inter- Fig . 5 . MA stices , a large glass may be filled with marbles SPRING . 47.
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... glass may be filled with marbles ; whilst to denote the water ( whose liquid particles , philosophers have likewise every reason to believe , are not in abso- lute contact ) a small glass may be filled with rape - seed ; this , when ...
... glass may be filled with marbles ; whilst to denote the water ( whose liquid particles , philosophers have likewise every reason to believe , are not in abso- lute contact ) a small glass may be filled with rape - seed ; this , when ...
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... glasses in a situation sheltered from rain , but freely exposed to the air , and it will be found , in the course of a few days , that the water has evaporated from both , and has left in the one glass no solid deposit , but in the ...
... glasses in a situation sheltered from rain , but freely exposed to the air , and it will be found , in the course of a few days , that the water has evaporated from both , and has left in the one glass no solid deposit , but in the ...
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... glass plate or tumbler held about an inch above its surface . This is a test that the soil is dried , and upon carefully removing it from the plate to the scale pan , the number of grain weights required to restore the original balance ...
... glass plate or tumbler held about an inch above its surface . This is a test that the soil is dried , and upon carefully removing it from the plate to the scale pan , the number of grain weights required to restore the original balance ...
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Page 405 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 145 - Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...
Page 234 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful ; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Page 288 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 244 - The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars ; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 434 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 59 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 183 - Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
Page 434 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 158 - They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.