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6. oldal
... Oxygen , hydrogen , nitrogen , carbonic acid , so prepared as to ex- clude all floating particles , produce the darkness when poured or blown into the beam . Coal - gas does the same . An ordinary glass shade placed in the air with its ...
... Oxygen , hydrogen , nitrogen , carbonic acid , so prepared as to ex- clude all floating particles , produce the darkness when poured or blown into the beam . Coal - gas does the same . An ordinary glass shade placed in the air with its ...
7. oldal
... oxygen , fell back upon the old notion of matter in a state of decay . It was not the living yeast plant , but the dead or dying parts of it , which , assailed by oxygen , produced the fermentation . This notion was finally exploded by ...
... oxygen , fell back upon the old notion of matter in a state of decay . It was not the living yeast plant , but the dead or dying parts of it , which , assailed by oxygen , produced the fermentation . This notion was finally exploded by ...
18. oldal
... oxygen gas should pass through a capillary tube at a slower rate than any other gas is a matter that still awaits interpretation . Near the end of the same year , 1849 , Mr. Graham communicated , also to the Royal Society , a second ...
... oxygen gas should pass through a capillary tube at a slower rate than any other gas is a matter that still awaits interpretation . Near the end of the same year , 1849 , Mr. Graham communicated , also to the Royal Society , a second ...
20. oldal
... oxygen of the base to the oxygen of the acid . Thus , in the carbonates , this ratio was as 1 to 2 ; in the sulphates , as 1 to 3 ; and in the nitrates , as 1 to 5. But with regard to the phosphates , taking common phosphate of soda as ...
... oxygen of the base to the oxygen of the acid . Thus , in the carbonates , this ratio was as 1 to 2 ; in the sulphates , as 1 to 3 ; and in the nitrates , as 1 to 5. But with regard to the phosphates , taking common phosphate of soda as ...
21. oldal
... oxygen of the base to the oxygen of the acid was as 1 to 5 , the ratio of the oxygen of the base to the oxygen of the water was as 1 to 2 . In 1827 , Mr. Graham's fellow - townsman , and predecessor at the Mechanics ' Institute , Dr ...
... oxygen of the base to the oxygen of the acid was as 1 to 5 , the ratio of the oxygen of the base to the oxygen of the water was as 1 to 2 . In 1827 , Mr. Graham's fellow - townsman , and predecessor at the Mechanics ' Institute , Dr ...
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351. oldal - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called "accidents.
341. oldal - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit...
ix. 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.
352. oldal - ... a great tortoise. But being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied, something, he knew not what. And thus here, as in all other cases where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children; who being questioned what such a thing is, which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is something...
337. oldal - I know of no mode of resistance, much less of protection from this danger, excepting by an army in the field capable of meeting and contending with its formidable enemy, aided by all the means of fortification which experience in war and science can suggest.
xviii. oldal - The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 5 vols.
233. oldal - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
6. oldal - The air of our London rooms is loaded with this organic dust, nor is the country air free from its pollution. However ordinary daylight may permit it to disguise itself, a sufficiently powerful beam causes the air in which the dust is suspended to appear as a semi-solid rather than as a gas. Nobody could, in the first instance, without repugnance place the month at the illuminated focus of the electric beam and inhale the dirt revealed there.
351. oldal - From whence it seems probable to me, that the simple ideas we receive from sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts; beyond which, the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas.
507. oldal - I have had the honour to lay before The Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the President...