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Page 92
... quinine , and so on ; but that would be only a roundabout way of saying they were " sweet " or " b.tter . " Instead of classifying the colours , as grass colour , dandelion colour , coal colour , etc. , we say green , yellow , black ...
... quinine , and so on ; but that would be only a roundabout way of saying they were " sweet " or " b.tter . " Instead of classifying the colours , as grass colour , dandelion colour , coal colour , etc. , we say green , yellow , black ...
Page 97
... quinine , zinc , and washing soda . The ele- mentary tastes can be combined in countless ways . Thus , sweet and sour when combined produce a result that is neither sweet nor sour , but differs from either while resembling both ...
... quinine , zinc , and washing soda . The ele- mentary tastes can be combined in countless ways . Thus , sweet and sour when combined produce a result that is neither sweet nor sour , but differs from either while resembling both ...
Page 98
... quinine , acid , and alkali . The most convenient solutions to use are sugar , 5 per cent .; quinine , 0.002 per cent .; tartaric acid , 0.5 per cent .; salt , 2 per cent .; sodium carbonate , 0.1 per cent . To avoid the effect of ...
... quinine , acid , and alkali . The most convenient solutions to use are sugar , 5 per cent .; quinine , 0.002 per cent .; tartaric acid , 0.5 per cent .; salt , 2 per cent .; sodium carbonate , 0.1 per cent . To avoid the effect of ...
Page 99
An Introduction to Mental Science Edward Wheeler Scripture. by adding a minute quantity of quinine powder . Vanilla is added to strengthen most of the flavours of soda water . Some partially deaf persons can hear much better in the midst ...
An Introduction to Mental Science Edward Wheeler Scripture. by adding a minute quantity of quinine powder . Vanilla is added to strengthen most of the flavours of soda water . Some partially deaf persons can hear much better in the midst ...
Page 100
... quinine the bitterness overpowers everything , no matter how strong the solution . With quinine sulphate or chloride the very strong solutions are more or less burning . It is a curious but uninvestigated fact that tempera- ture ...
... quinine the bitterness overpowers everything , no matter how strong the solution . With quinine sulphate or chloride the very strong solutions are more or less burning . It is a curious but uninvestigated fact that tempera- ture ...
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Page 181 - ... probably never in all their lives received one genuine colour-sensation. The modern religionists of the school of Overbeck are just like people who eat slate-pencil and chalk, and assure everybody that they are nicer and purer than strawberries and plums.
Page 5 - I have noticed in one of my formicaria a subterranean cemetery, where I have seen some ants burying their dead by placing earth above them. One ant was evidently much affected, and tried to exhume the bodies, but the united exertions of the yellow sextons were more than sufficient to neutralise the effort of the disconsolate mourner.