Elementary ChemistryCassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870 - 288 pages |
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Page 47 - IB the tube on the negative side first filled with gas 1 gases combine in the proportion of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen.
Page 118 - SO,. A third process consists in heating sulphuric acid with copper or mercury in an ordinary flask — Hg + 2H.SO. = HgSO. + 2H,O + SO,. The gas is well known for its suffocating odour. It cannot support combustion. Water at 0° Cent, dissolves 68'8 volumes of the gas, but this solution gradually absorbs oxygen from the air, and becomes converted into sulphuric acid. By causing the gas to traverse a tube surrounded by a mixture of salt and ice, or by submitting it to a pressnre of 2 atmospheres,...
Page 143 - Magiae," gives a receipt for making a kind of gunpowder. Our English powder consists of 75 parts of nitre, 15 of charcoal, and 10 of sulphur.
Page 264 - ... that the division of this cord, nay, even complete decollation, will not prevent the poisonous effects of nux vómica ; whereas the destruction of the cord, by the introduction of a piece of whalebone into the spinal canal, causes the immediate cessation of the convulsions ; and if only part of the cord be destroyed, the convulsions cease in that part of the body only which is supplied with nerves from the portion of medulla destroyed. These facts, then, originally observed by Magendie, and which...
Page 278 - D is a double line between the orange and the yellow ; E is a group of fine lines in the green; F is a...
Page 213 - This latter alloy is composed of two parts of bismuth, one of lead, and one of tin, and melts at 200° F.