Chemistry and Familiar Science: Containing, in a Condensed Form, the Elementary Principles, and All the Most Important Facts of the ScienceE.H. Bender, 1851 - 295 pages |
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Page 52 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 50 - ... clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work; the briskness of the fire, the supply of water to the boiler; the supply of coals to the fire ; it opens and shuts its valves with absolute precision as to time and manner; it oils its joints; it takes out any air which may accidentally enter into parts which should be vacuous ; and, when...
Page 56 - ... the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence, the image for any point can be seen only in the reflected ray prolonged.
Page 51 - Its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustible ; it consumes none while idle ; it never tires, and wants no sleep ; it is not subject to malady when originally well made, and only refuses to work when worn out with age ; it is equally active in all climates, and will do work of any kind ; it is a water-pumper, a miner, a sailor, a cotton-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c.
Page 51 - ... and a small engine, in the character of a steam pony, may be seen dragging after it, on a rail-road, a hundred tons of merchandise, or a regiment of soldiers, with greater speed than that of our fleetest coaches. It is the king of machines, and a permanent realization of the Genii of Eastern fable, whose supernatural powers were occasionally at the command of man.
Page 167 - For this purpose, five or six pieces of potassium, of the size of peas, were introduced into a glass tube, the sealed extremity of which was bent into the form of a retort, and upon the potassium were laid fragments of chloride of magnesium ; the latter being then heated to near its point of fusion, a lamp was applied to the potassium, and its vapor transmitted through the mass of the heated chloride.
Page 41 - If a pound of water at 32° be mixed with a pound of water at 172°, the temperature of the mixture will be intermediate between them, or 102°. But if a pound of water at 172° be added to a pound of ice at 32°, the ice will quickly dissolve, and on placing a thermometer in the mixture, it will be found to stand, not at 102°, but at 32°.
Page 159 - Order 2. Metals which do not decompose water at any temperature, and the oxides of which are not reduced to the metallic state by the sole action of heat.
Page 169 - Bussy, in the year 1830, by the action of potassium on chloride of magnesium. For this purpose five or six pieces of potassium, of the size of peas, were introduced into a glass tube, the sealed extremity of which was bent into the form of a retort, and upon the potassium were laid fragments of chloride of magnesium. The latter being then heated to near its point effusion, a lamp was applied to the potassium, and its vapour transmitted through the mass of heated chloride.
Page 166 - ... 1808, by a process suggested by Berzelius and Pontin. It consists in forming carbonate of baryta into a paste with water, and placing a globule of mercury in a little hollow made in its surface. The paste was laid upon a platinum tray which communicated with the positive pole of a galvanic battery of 100 double plates, while the negative wire was brought into contact with the mercury. The baryta was decomposed, and the barium entered into combination with the mercury.