The amount of the vapor of water varies. Thus, in those avenues at a great distance from the rivers, upon the walls and floors of which there is a deposit of nitrate of lime, the air is almost entirely destitute of moisture, from the hygroscopic properties... A Guide Manual to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky - Page 14by Charles W. Wright - 1860 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
| Medicine - 1858 - 784 pages
...hygroscopic properties of that salt, and animal matter mummifies instead of suffering putrifactive decomposition. And for the same reason, no matter what state of division the disentegrated rock may attain, dust never rises. In portions of the cave remote from the localities... | |
| Medicine - 1859 - 646 pages
...average of .many observations. In the dry parts of the Cave the proportion is about 2 to 10,000 of air; in the vicinity of the rivers, something less. Not...of the Cave remote from the localities in which the bats hybernate, no organic matter can be recognized by the most delicate tests. Not a trace of ozone... | |
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