A catechism on chemistry, including heat, magnetism and electricity

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Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 - 81 ページ
 

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25 ページ - It is better, on this account, in graduating the bottle, to make two scratches as represented in the drawing, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the curve : this prevents any future mistake.
67 ページ - This oxide is formed when sodium is burned in dry air or oxygen. It is a white powder, which attracts moisture and carbonic acid from the air. When...
7 ページ - If equal weights of water at 32° (0°C) and water at 174° (78°-8C) be mixed, the temperature of the mixture will be the mean of the two temperatures, or 103° (39°-4C).
58 ページ - ... by certain fixed and definite laws; and, for the consideration of metallurgic operations, it may suffice to elucidate the two leading ones. The first is, that all chemical compounds are perfectly definite in their nature and constitution, and that the ratio of their elements is constant. The second, that the combining quantity of a compound is the sum of the combining quantity of its constituents. Now as to the first law. The combining quantities of all simple bodies may be expressed by proportional...
28 ページ - The copper of the first cup is connected with the zinc of the second, the copper of the second with the zinc of the third, and so to the end of the series.
58 ページ - ... relation established by the hand of Nature between the specific gravity of a body in the gaseous state and its chemical equivalent ; — a relation of such a kind that quantities by weight of the various gases expressed by their equivalents, or in other words quantities by weight which combine, occupy under similar circumstances of pressure and temperature either equal volumes or volumes bearing a simple proportion to each other.

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