Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry
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Also the union of inflammable and pure air, when they are fired together by means of the electric spark, produces not pure water, as, according to the new theory, it ought to do...
3. Part 3This kind of air is obtained in the purest state by dissolving marble, lime-stone, and other kinds of mild calcareous earth in any acid. It is also obtained by the burning, or t...
6. Part 6When crude iron comes from the smelting furnace it is brittle; and when it is white within, it is extremely hard; but when it has a black grain, owing to its having more phlogis...
4. Part 4The _acid of tartar_ is very similar to that of vinegar. Tartar, from which it is procured, is a substance deposited on the inside of wine-casks, though it is also found ready f...
5. Part 5This species of earth is ductile with water; it then hardens and contracts by heat, so as to be of the greatest use in forming _bricks_, or stones of any required form or size....
8. Part 8Steel filings gently thrown upon a magnet, adhere to it in a curious manner; and the filings, acquiring magnetism by the contact, adhere together, and form a number of small mag...
2. Part 2The object of experimental philosophy is the knowledge of nature in general, or more strictly, that of the properties of natural substances, and of the changes of those properti...
1. Part 1Produced by Bryan Ness, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material...