Experimental chemistry, founded on the work [Principles of chemistry] of J.A. Stöckhardt |
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... taken as identical with weight . But it is right to remember that all bodies attract one another . One stone attracts another , one drop of water another drop ; but the masses of the stones and the drops are so small that the attraction ...
... taken as identical with weight . But it is right to remember that all bodies attract one another . One stone attracts another , one drop of water another drop ; but the masses of the stones and the drops are so small that the attraction ...
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... taken on trust . Experiment 1. - Rub a piece of copper wire briskly with sand - paper for a minute or two . It will become so hot that the hand cannot bear to touch it , and it will readily ignite phosphorus or the tip of a lucifer ...
... taken on trust . Experiment 1. - Rub a piece of copper wire briskly with sand - paper for a minute or two . It will become so hot that the hand cannot bear to touch it , and it will readily ignite phosphorus or the tip of a lucifer ...
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... taken so rapidly from the materials in the tumbler that the outside will become covered with hoar frost , and if a little water in a test tube be plunged into the mixture it will freeze in a minute or two . Most of the so - called ...
... taken so rapidly from the materials in the tumbler that the outside will become covered with hoar frost , and if a little water in a test tube be plunged into the mixture it will freeze in a minute or two . Most of the so - called ...
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... taken back to the dark room , the glass , ferns , & c . , removed , and the paper immersed in clean rain water and well soaked , the water being changed a good many times . A beautiful image , in white on a dark ground , of the object ...
... taken back to the dark room , the glass , ferns , & c . , removed , and the paper immersed in clean rain water and well soaked , the water being changed a good many times . A beautiful image , in white on a dark ground , of the object ...
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... Taken into the stomach , it acts as a yiolent poison ; it is at present the most common means for the destruction of rats and mice . The constituents of bone - earth and those of gelatine have been found to be universally present in the ...
... Taken into the stomach , it acts as a yiolent poison ; it is at present the most common means for the destruction of rats and mice . The constituents of bone - earth and those of gelatine have been found to be universally present in the ...
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Page 19 - ... the accuracy of every chemical process, and ascertain the true composition of bodies by proving the weight of the compound to be equal to the weight of the substances which produce it. 32. Use of the Balance,-— The balance is to the chemist what the compass is to the mariner, and before its introduction as a means of verifying experiments, the whole science of Chemistry was a collection of disconnected and separate facts and theories. Until within a comparatively recent period it was supposed...