Scientific American

Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889

III. CHEMISTRY.--On Allotropic Forms of Silver.--By M. CAREY LEA.--A continuation of this paper, containing one of the most important researches in the history of silver, with statement of interesting results attained. 11361

Chapters

9. Chapter 9

Such is, in brief, a general account of these remarkable structures. Of course there were several variations in the methods of fixing these piles, one of which may be mentioned...

4. Chapter 4

But when it is understood that the iron core polarized in one direction by the primary impulse does not begin to lose its magnetism when that impulse simply weakens, but waits u...

6. Chapter 6

The tank is constructed as follows: Procure two pieces of best white plate glass, about 6 inches square; between these place a piece of rubber of the same size square, and about...

2. Chapter 2

The strategic importance of the rock appears to have been first discovered by the Moors, who, when they crossed over from Africa in the eighth century, selected it as the site o...

5. Chapter 5

The transmission of power plant consists of two 250 horse power dynamos--C.E.L. Brown's patent--the generator being driven by a vertical compound condensing engine of the same p...

7. Chapter 7

In treating this subject it is necessary to limit it within comparatively narrow bounds, for bodies of the turpentine class are exceedingly numerous and not well understood. In...

10. Chapter 10

The taste for these things is acquired, not natural, though the acquisition may be through hereditary influence. An idea is held by a majority of even fairly intelligent individ...

3. Chapter 3

The conception of Faraday in regard to the existence of lines of magnetic force representing directions of magnetic strain or tension in a medium has not only lost nothing of it...

8. Chapter 8

That such a fine pear, which does so well in France, would soon find its way to England there exists little doubt, as we find that within a few years it became established and w...

1. Chapter 1

III. CHEMISTRY.--On Allotropic Forms of Silver.--By M. CAREY LEA.--A continuation of this paper, containing one of the most important researches in the history of silver, with s...

11. Chapter 11

The explanation is to be sought in a periodic stratified structure. But the other features differ widely in the two cases. There is here no semicircular evanescence, as the spec...