Foster's First Principles of Chemistry; Illustrated by a Series of the Most Recently Discovered and Brilliant Experiments Known to the Science. Adapted Specially for Classes
Foster's First Principles of Chemistry; Illustrated by a Series of the Most Recently Discovered and Brilliant Experiments Known to the Science. Adapted Specially for Classes
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... and is extensively used for reducing fric substance exten-' ireiy used? tion in machinery, and in the manufacture of drawing pencils. Crucibles are D why are crucibles sometimes made of plumbago on account madeofplumba-r-Ii j-, go? of its property of withstanding an intense when exposed to heat. Charcoal will not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... and is extensively used for reducing fric substance exten-' ireiy used? tion in machinery, and in the manufacture of drawing pencils. Crucibles are D why are crucibles sometimes made of plumbago on account madeofplumba-r-Ii j-, go? of its property of withstanding an intense when exposed to heat. Charcoal will not decay when exair or water, wii i. charcoal decay i posed to air or water. Hence posts which have been charred never decay. It is what is said of said that the stakes driven into the bed the stakes driven into the bed of of the River Thames by the Britons in the Thames by - tto jneiMit B-it-the year 55 B.C., to prevent its passage by Julius Caesar, when discovered a few years since, were in a perfect state of pres How may meat be ervation from having been charred. Meat in warm weatt-packed in charcoal dust may be preserved fresh for several weeks in warm weather. ofecartonic Carbonic Oxide. Equivalent. Symbol CO. This compound is always formed when wood is burned with an incomplete supply of air. When charcoal has burned for How is this gas some time in air, and ashes have accumulated upon the surface so as to prevent a complete supply of 0, CO (carbonic oxide) is invariably formed. The same result takes place when the damper of a stove.is Does oo possess closed. CO is a gas which possesses very poisonous prop-, .., poisonous properties, and when breathed much diluted with air, produces drowsithi8s'em gaswheis ness, giddiness, and sometimes fainting. breathed much, ... j i' diluted wim air? The sleepy sensation experienced when now is the sitting by a warm stove in winter, is us Grey. X drowsy sensa-, i i i, n tion produced uallv produced by breathing small por when sitting by 'r a hot stove in tions of CO mixed with air....
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Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Rebacked spine, cover shows heavy wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing. Pages are tanned with minor spotting. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
