This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...B, is to the mass B which it receives, as the square root of the density of A to the square root of the density of B."--Problem 80. t "Fill a jar half full of oxygen, and then cautiously fill it up with carbonic acid. Then remove the cork and introduce a suspended candle. It burns brilliantly in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...B, is to the mass B which it receives, as the square root of the density of A to the square root of the density of B."--Problem 80. t "Fill a jar half full of oxygen, and then cautiously fill it up with carbonic acid. Then remove the cork and introduce a suspended candle. It burns brilliantly in the upper stratum of oxygen, but is extinguished in the carbonic acid buluw, being kinilled again, as it is again drawn upwards into the oxygen. Hence eacs of difforcnt densities do not minyle rapidly with each other, at least, to any great extent. Hut, if the oxygon and carbonic acid bo left together for a considerable time, they gradually diffuse themselves through each other, part of the heavy carbonic acid rising, while a portion of the lighter oxygen descends."--Elements of Chcmistry, by Dr. D. 11. Raid, p. 882. I find, also, a satisfactory illustration given by Berzelius, vol. i., pages 234 and 235, of the necessity for giving time for the due mixing of the constituents of a combustible gas with its supporter previously to combustion, but it is too long for introduction here. I might here add many illustrations from Dr. Faraday, of the causes of the acceleration and retardation of the processes of mixing and combining, but it would draw me too much from the practical application of the facts before us. I must, therefore, content myself with referring to his able "Experimental Researches in Electricity," a work which will amply repay the scientific inquirer. The work of Mr. Daniell, Professor of Chemistry, King's College, London, in which ho has presented to students in chemistry an elementary view of the discoveries of Dr. Faraday in electrical science, is also a work well worthy perusal by those who desire to go...
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