Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 29. köideJ. Murray, 1860 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 25
Page 4
... Acetic acid , C2 HO2 , which in most of its reactions behaves as a monatomic hydrate , is converted by the action of chlorine into chloracetic acid , C2 H3 CO2 . This substance can easily be made to part with its chlorine and to take up ...
... Acetic acid , C2 HO2 , which in most of its reactions behaves as a monatomic hydrate , is converted by the action of chlorine into chloracetic acid , C2 H3 CO2 . This substance can easily be made to part with its chlorine and to take up ...
Page 5
... acids into the so - called benzamic , toluamic , cuminamic , and anisamic acids is a change equivalent to that of acetic acid into glycocol , and is therefore the change of a monatomic into a diatomic substance . We shall return ...
... acids into the so - called benzamic , toluamic , cuminamic , and anisamic acids is a change equivalent to that of acetic acid into glycocol , and is therefore the change of a monatomic into a diatomic substance . We shall return ...
Page 8
... acetic acid , and the way in which they may be expressed by rational formulæ . 1. The relation of acetic acid to the acetates shows that it contains an atom of hydrogen which can be separated from the other atoms . The rational formula ...
... acetic acid , and the way in which they may be expressed by rational formulæ . 1. The relation of acetic acid to the acetates shows that it contains an atom of hydrogen which can be separated from the other atoms . The rational formula ...
Page 9
... acetic acid will then be CH3 ( C ) iv { } 0 H HH O derived from the type H by the replacement of one atom of hydro- -H H gen in the type H H by the monatomic radicle CH3 , and the replacement of the other atom together with all the ...
... acetic acid will then be CH3 ( C ) iv { } 0 H HH O derived from the type H by the replacement of one atom of hydro- -H H gen in the type H H by the monatomic radicle CH3 , and the replacement of the other atom together with all the ...
Page 10
... acetic acid except the complete separation of its carbon and hydrogen , which occurs . when of the latter is replaced by a metal and the remaining by chlorine , as in a metallic terchloracetate , or when acetic acid is completely ...
... acetic acid except the complete separation of its carbon and hydrogen , which occurs . when of the latter is replaced by a metal and the remaining by chlorine , as in a metallic terchloracetate , or when acetic acid is completely ...
Contents
xvii | |
xxiii | |
xl | |
xlvi | |
xlvii | |
liii | |
lix | |
1 | |
54 | |
58 | |
64 | |
72 | |
79 | |
86 | |
93 | |
100 | |
22 | |
31 | |
44 | |
63 | |
76 | |
95 | |
100 | |
103 | |
116 | |
124 | |
130 | |
147 | |
153 | |
167 | |
191 | |
197 | |
200 | |
228 | |
229 | |
268 | |
302 | |
1 | |
11 | |
20 | |
27 | |
28 | |
34 | |
41 | |
47 | |
102 | |
108 | |
114 | |
120 | |
125 | |
135 | |
142 | |
148 | |
155 | |
162 | |
170 | |
176 | |
183 | |
194 | |
200 | |
210 | |
213 | |
216 | |
223 | |
229 | |
235 | |
242 | |
245 | |
252 | |
258 | |
264 | |
265 | |
276 | |
281 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aberdeen acetic acid acre action alcohol ammonia amount appears applied Archegosaurus atom bones British Association Busk Carbonate character Chem chemical chloride colour Committee compounds congruence containing coprolites cranium David Brewster decomposition diameter dissolved distance Ditto effect equation exhibited experiments feet formula fossils gneiss guano heat Ibid inches increase instrument iron Kew Observatory length less libration light lime limestone lines magnesia magnetic magnetograph manure matter means meteors miles moon nitrate nitric acid observations obtained Old Red Sandstone oxide paper Pharm phosphates photographic plate Plot position present pressure prime produce Professor prognathous proportion quantity quartz radicle remarkable Report residue rocks Royal salts Sandstone Science Scotland silver skulls soda soluble solution species specimens stars steam substances sulphate sulphuric acid surface Table temperature tion tons vessel
Popular passages
Page lxi - Transactions : — •" to give a stronger impulse and more systematic direction to scientific inquiry...
Page xvii - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page xvii - Associates for the year, subject to the approval of a General Meeting. COMPOSITIONS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND PRIVILEGES. LIFE MEMBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Ten Pounds. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association which may be published after the date of such payment. They are eligible to all the offices of the Association. ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Two Pounds, and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive gratuitously the...
Page 291 - Committee on the Defects of the present methods of Measuring and Registering the Tonnage of Shipping, as also of Marine Engine-Power, and to frame more perfect rules, in order that a correct and uniform principle may be adopted to estimate the Actual Carrying Capabilities and Working-Power of Steam Ships; — Robert Were Fox, Report on the Temperature of some Deep Mines in Cornwall; — Dr.
Page 288 - Dove on his recently constructed Maps of the Monthly Isothermal Lines of the Globe, and on some of the principal Conclusions in regard to Climatology deducible from them ; with an introductory Notice by Lient.-Col.
Page liv - Action of Gases on Light 18 16 1 Establishment at Kew Observatory, Wages, Repairs, Furniture, and Sundries ... 133 4 7 Experiments by Captive Balloons ...., 81 8 0...
Page 289 - Registration of the Periodical Phenomena of Plants and Animals ; — Suggestions to Astronomers for the Observation of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on July 28, 1851.
Page 92 - I have thus failed to obtain satisfactory evidence in favour of the remote origin assigned to the human fossils of Le Puy, I am fully prepared to corroborate the conclusions which have been recently laid before the Royal Society by Mr Prestwich, in regard to the age of the flint implements associated in undisturbed gravel, in the north of France, with the bones of Elephants, at Abbeville, and Amiens.
Page xvii - Transactions, in the British Empire, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. The Officers and Members of the Councils, or Managing Committees, of Philosophical Institutions shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. All Members of a Philosophical Institution recommended by its Council or Managing Committee shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be elected...
Page lxviii - Please to recollect that this species of bore is a most useful animal, well adapted for the ends for which Nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to the cause which he advocates, and obtains that hearing which is granted him at last for selfprotection, as the minor evil compared to his importunity, but which is requisite to make his cause understood.