On radiation. 'Bede' lect., 1865Longman and Company, 1865 - 62 pages |
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... examine the influence of chemical union alone , we shall render our experiments more pure by liberating the atoms and molecules entirely from the bonds of cohesion , and employing them in the gaseous or vaporous form . Let us endeavour ...
... examine the influence of chemical union alone , we shall render our experiments more pure by liberating the atoms and molecules entirely from the bonds of cohesion , and employing them in the gaseous or vaporous form . Let us endeavour ...
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... thus produced by different gases , we can readily deduce the relative amounts of wave motion which their molecules intercept . In this way the substances mentioned in the fol- lowing table were examined , a small portion only of.
... thus produced by different gases , we can readily deduce the relative amounts of wave motion which their molecules intercept . In this way the substances mentioned in the fol- lowing table were examined , a small portion only of.
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... examined at a pressure of one - thirtieth of an atmosphere . The numbers in the table express the relative amounts of wave motion absorbed by the respective gases , the quantity inter- cepted by atmospheric air being taken as unity ...
... examined at a pressure of one - thirtieth of an atmosphere . The numbers in the table express the relative amounts of wave motion absorbed by the respective gases , the quantity inter- cepted by atmospheric air being taken as unity ...
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... examined , and found competent to cut off the light of our most brilliant flames , while it transmitted the ... examine the substance in its usual solid condi- tion . It however dissolves freely in bisulphide of TRANSPARENCY OF IODINE ...
... examined , and found competent to cut off the light of our most brilliant flames , while it transmitted the ... examine the substance in its usual solid condi- tion . It however dissolves freely in bisulphide of TRANSPARENCY OF IODINE ...
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... examine what proportion the non - luminous rays of the electric light bear to the luminous ones . This the opaque solution of iodine enables us to do with an extremely close ap- proximation to the truth . The pure bisulphide of carbon ...
... examine what proportion the non - luminous rays of the electric light bear to the luminous ones . This the opaque solution of iodine enables us to do with an extremely close ap- proximation to the truth . The pure bisulphide of carbon ...
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