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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Page 64
... flask is placed with its neck dipping beneath the water contained in a glass ; the flask , al- though empty , in the ordinary acceptation of the term , is actually full of air ; this has no tendency to escape , because it is nearly of ...
... flask is placed with its neck dipping beneath the water contained in a glass ; the flask , al- though empty , in the ordinary acceptation of the term , is actually full of air ; this has no tendency to escape , because it is nearly of ...
Page 65
... flask , because it is opposed by the included air . Fig . 9 . Apply the flame of a spirit - lamp very gently to the bulb of the flask ; its thin glass immediately conducts the heat to the air , which expands in volume , or be- comes too ...
... flask , because it is opposed by the included air . Fig . 9 . Apply the flame of a spirit - lamp very gently to the bulb of the flask ; its thin glass immediately conducts the heat to the air , which expands in volume , or be- comes too ...
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... flask to sunshine and shade . When the air has contracted for the last time , lift the flask with one hand , that its mouth may be only half an inch beneath the water , and take a cork between the fingers of the other hand , and dip it ...
... flask to sunshine and shade . When the air has contracted for the last time , lift the flask with one hand , that its mouth may be only half an inch beneath the water , and take a cork between the fingers of the other hand , and dip it ...
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... flask ; kindle the taper , remove the cork , and gently let the taper down the neck into the bulb of the flask , the flame will be found to continue for a time , with the same brilliancy as in the open air ; at last it is extinguished ...
... flask ; kindle the taper , remove the cork , and gently let the taper down the neck into the bulb of the flask , the flame will be found to continue for a time , with the same brilliancy as in the open air ; at last it is extinguished ...
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... : thus the grand discovery of the element Oxygen , which , about seventy years since , completely changed the whole aspect of the science of chemistry , was made by em- ploying a globular glass , or flask , about the 202 AUTUMN .
... : thus the grand discovery of the element Oxygen , which , about seventy years since , completely changed the whole aspect of the science of chemistry , was made by em- ploying a globular glass , or flask , about the 202 AUTUMN .
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Page 249 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
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 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 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 183 - And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower ; and so it is. 55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
Page 59 - Thou visitest the earth and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou prepares! them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
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.
Page 127 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of GOD the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water : whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished : but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 40 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.