The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., LL. D., Late President of the Royal Society, Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of France, &c, Volume 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 - 547 pages |
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Page xv
... contain a fixed Alkali . - Reflections on the discovery of Galvanic Electricity CHAPTER VI . 188 The History of Galvanism divided into six grand Epochs . - Davy extends the experiment of Nicholson and Carlisle.- His Pile of one metal ...
... contain a fixed Alkali . - Reflections on the discovery of Galvanic Electricity CHAPTER VI . 188 The History of Galvanism divided into six grand Epochs . - Davy extends the experiment of Nicholson and Carlisle.- His Pile of one metal ...
Page xvi
... contain Hydrogen . - He decomposes Boracic acid . - Boron . - His fallacies with regard to the composition of Muriatic acid . — A splen- did Voltaic battery is constructed at the Institution by subscription . -Davy ascertains the true ...
... contain Hydrogen . - He decomposes Boracic acid . - Boron . - His fallacies with regard to the composition of Muriatic acid . — A splen- did Voltaic battery is constructed at the Institution by subscription . -Davy ascertains the true ...
Page 81
... contain sufficient potash to form glass with their flint . A very pretty experiment may be made on these plants with the blow - pipe . If you take a straw of wheat , barley , or hay , * and burn it , beginning at the top , and heating ...
... contain sufficient potash to form glass with their flint . A very pretty experiment may be made on these plants with the blow - pipe . If you take a straw of wheat , barley , or hay , * and burn it , beginning at the top , and heating ...
Page 106
... contain light , without any luminous appearance , I beg to be considered as a sceptic with respect to my own particular theory of the combinations of light , until I shall have satisfactorily explained those ano- malies by fresh ...
... contain light , without any luminous appearance , I beg to be considered as a sceptic with respect to my own particular theory of the combinations of light , until I shall have satisfactorily explained those ano- malies by fresh ...
Page 110
... containing air , and it acts again . It acts very vividly in oxygen gas , and less so in the atmosphere . When its plates are moistened by marine acid , its action is very powerful , but infi- nitely more so when nitrous acid is ...
... containing air , and it acts again . It acts very vividly in oxygen gas , and less so in the atmosphere . When its plates are moistened by marine acid , its action is very powerful , but infi- nitely more so when nitrous acid is ...
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