The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature
CHAPTER XII.
CHEMICAL PHENOMENA.
Water--Its Constituents--Oxygen--Hydrogen--Peroxide of Hydrogen--Physical Property of Water--Ice--Sea Water--Chlorine--Muriatic Acid--Iodine--Bromine--Compounds of Hydrogen with Carbon--Combustion--Flame--Safety Lamp--Respiration--Animal Heat--The Atmosphere--Carbonic Acid--Influence of Plants on the Air--Chemical Phenomena of Vegetation--Compounds of Nitrogen--Mineral Kingdom, &c. &c. 295