| William Newton - 1862 - 420 oldal
...other, and thus enabled to repeat the process of combination. In the building of plants, carbonic acid is the material from which the carbon of the plant...receives ; let the same beams fall upon a forest, the quantity of heat given back ia less than the forest receives, for the energy of a portion of the sunbeams... | |
| 1862 - 510 oldal
...other, and thus enabled to repeat the process of combination. In the building of plants carbonic acid is the material from which the carbon of the plant...solar beam is the agent which tears the atoms asunder, selling the oxygen free, and allowing the carbon to aggregate in woody fibre. Let the solar rays fall... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 602 oldal
...and motion are derived; it obeys the same laws as light, and correlates with sound and gravitation. Let the solar rays fall upon a surface of sand; the...receives. Let the same beams fall upon a forest, the quantity of heat given back is less than the forest receives, for the energy of a portion of the sunbeams... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 608 oldal
...and motion are derived ; it obeys the same lasvs as light, and correlates with sound and gravitation. Let the solar rays fall upon a surface of sand ; the...receives. Let the same beams fall upon a forest, the quantity of heat given back is less than the forest receives, for the energy of a portion of the sunbeams... | |
| 1863 - 630 oldal
...other, and thus enabled to repeat the proceas of combination. In the building of plants carbonic acid is the material from which the carbon of the plant...tears the atoms asunder, setting the oxygen free, and allowin£ the carbon to aggregate in woody fibre. Let the solar ravs fall upon a surface of sand ;... | |
| John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 oldal
...molecular work accomplished. Thus trees are formed, thus the meadows grow, thus the flowers bloom. Let the solar rays fall upon a surface of sand, the sand is heated and finally radiates away as much as it receives ; let the same rays fall upon a forest, the quantity of heat given back is less than... | |
| John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 oldal
...molecular work accomplished. Thus trees are formed, thus the meadows grow, thus the flowers bloom. Let the solar rays fall upon a surface of sand, the sand is heated and finally radiates away as much as it receives ; let « the same rays fall upon a forest, the quantity of heat given back is less than... | |
| 1864 - 382 oldal
...and the missing quantity is the exact equivalent of the mechanical work which the body accomplishes. which the carbon of the plant is derived ; and the...tears the atoms asunder, setting the oxygen free, and allowing-the carbon to aggregate in woody fibre. Let the solar rays fall upon a surface of sand; the... | |
| 1865 - 372 oldal
...other, and thus enabled to repeat the process of combination. In the building of plants, carbonic acid is the material from which the carbon of the plant...receives ; let the same beams fall upon a forest, the quantity of heat given back is less than the ibre.it receives, for the energy of a portion of the sunbaams... | |
| 1865 - 372 oldal
...other, and thus enabled to repeat thr process of combination, lu the building of plants, carbonic acid is the material from which the carbon of the plant...tears the atoms asunder, setting the oxygen free, and allowi'.ig the carbon to aggregate in woody fibre. Let the solar rays fall upon a surface of sand;... | |
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