James Smithson and His BequestSmithsonian Institution., 1880 - 68 oldal |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 17 találatból.
11. oldal
... Fused , by the same means , on a plate of platina , with the vitriols of tartar and soda , it appeared entirely to resist their action ; the little particles employed continuing to re- volve in the fluid globules without sustaining any ...
... Fused , by the same means , on a plate of platina , with the vitriols of tartar and soda , it appeared entirely to resist their action ; the little particles employed continuing to re- volve in the fluid globules without sustaining any ...
15. oldal
... fusing with calcareous earth , in some of its effects with liquid alkalies , in its taste , and its specific gravity . But its taste may arise merely from its divided state , for chalk and powdery magnesia both have tastes , and tastes ...
... fusing with calcareous earth , in some of its effects with liquid alkalies , in its taste , and its specific gravity . But its taste may arise merely from its divided state , for chalk and powdery magnesia both have tastes , and tastes ...
16. oldal
... fused at the blow - pipe with soda , effer- vesced and formed a transparent glass . Only the middle part of the joints was burned , the knots were sawed off , lest being porous , Tabasheer might be mechanically lodged in them . However ...
... fused at the blow - pipe with soda , effer- vesced and formed a transparent glass . Only the middle part of the joints was burned , the knots were sawed off , lest being porous , Tabasheer might be mechanically lodged in them . However ...
17. oldal
... fused with soda with effervescence , and formed glass ; but the proportion of this matter to the ashes was greatly less than in the foregoing case . 5. Since the above experiments were made , a singular circumstance has presented itself ...
... fused with soda with effervescence , and formed glass ; but the proportion of this matter to the ashes was greatly less than in the foregoing case . 5. Since the above experiments were made , a singular circumstance has presented itself ...
49. oldal
... fused . It then weighed 1.2 grains . If we admit of nitrate of potash to be alkali , this will denote 10 % of potash in ulmin . 5 grains of ulmin were decomposed by muriatic acid . The resinous matter weighed 3.3 grains , and the ...
... fused . It then weighed 1.2 grains . If we admit of nitrate of potash to be alkali , this will denote 10 % of potash in ulmin . 5 grains of ulmin were decomposed by muriatic acid . The resinous matter weighed 3.3 grains , and the ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
afforded alkali alumina Annals of Philosophy antimony appeared bamboo became bequest Berzelius bill bit of Tabasheer Bleyberg blow-pipe blue boiled borax calamine calx of zinc carbonate of lime carbonic acid chancery chemical chemistry city of Washington colour composition Congress containing copper crucible crystals diffusion dissolved distilled water Duke of Northumberland earth effervescence experiments flame fluid fluorine fund glass grains heat Hugh Smithson Hungerford James Smithson jelly Klaproth knowledge liquor marine acid mass matter melted Mémoire metallic mineral mineralogy mixture muriatic acid nature nitrate opaque paper Paris particles Philosophical Transactions platina portion potash powder precipitate present produced quartz red hot Royal Society salt scientific siliceous silver Sir Hugh Smithson small quantity Smithsonian Institution solution substance sulphate sulphuret of lead sulphuric acid Tabasheer Thomson's Annals tion Tomes transparent turnsol ulmin United vegetable vitriol of zinc vitriolic acid weighed yellow zeolite
Népszerű szakaszok
26. oldal - Smithson should be invested, when received, by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States...
53. oldal - I shall acquire ampler iinforination at more voluminous sources — to a conviction that it is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals which inhabit the earth with him, and consequently that no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil...
15. oldal - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
108. oldal - Like the baseless fabric of a vision, Left not a wreck behind.
15. oldal - A glance at the names of a few of the great organizations instituted in different parts of the world at the close of the last and beginning of the present century will...
21. oldal - In case of the death of my said nephew without leaving a child or children, or of the death of the child or children he may have had, under the age of twenty-one years, or intestate, I then bequeath the whole of my property (subject to the annuity of...
54. oldal - Paris, 1819. Bibliotheca Parisiana. A catalogue of a collection of books formed by a gentleman in France.
16. oldal - Society was to improve the knowledge of natural things, and all useful arts, manufactures, mechanick practises, engynes and inventions by experiments — (not meddling with divinity, metaphysics, moralls, politicks, grammar, rhetorick, or logick.)
22. oldal - In this committee great opposi tion was manifested at first to the acceptance of the bequest, but this yielded to the arguments and persuasion of the distinguished chairman, Mr. John Q. Adams. A bill was accordingly reported, directing the President to appoint an agent to assert and prosecute for and in behalf of the United States in the court of chancery, England, the legacy bequeathed by James Smithson.