The Fairy-land of ScienceD. Appleton and Company, 1903 - 252 страници |
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... called the fairy " chemical attraction " to help it , and dragged the atoms of oxygen out of the water and joined them to itself . In doing this it also caught part of the hydrogen , but only half , and so the rest was left out in the ...
... called the fairy " chemical attraction " to help it , and dragged the atoms of oxygen out of the water and joined them to itself . In doing this it also caught part of the hydrogen , but only half , and so the rest was left out in the ...
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... called a prism . If I put it in the sunlight which is streaming through the window , what happens ? Look ! on the FIG . 6 . table there is a line of beautiful colours . I can make it long or short , as I turn the prism , but the colours ...
... called a prism . If I put it in the sunlight which is streaming through the window , what happens ? Look ! on the FIG . 6 . table there is a line of beautiful colours . I can make it long or short , as I turn the prism , but the colours ...
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... called the Röntgen rays , and sometimes the X - rays , because X stands in algebra for an unknown quantity ; and although we know how these rays act , we do not yet know what they are , except that they are not ordinary forms of heat ...
... called the Röntgen rays , and sometimes the X - rays , because X stands in algebra for an unknown quantity ; and although we know how these rays act , we do not yet know what they are , except that they are not ordinary forms of heat ...
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... called oxygen , is used up when anything burns , while the other nitrogen is not used , and only serves to dilute the minute atoms of oxygen . I have here a glass bell - jar , with a cork fixed tightly in the neck , and I place the jar ...
... called oxygen , is used up when anything burns , while the other nitrogen is not used , and only serves to dilute the minute atoms of oxygen . I have here a glass bell - jar , with a cork fixed tightly in the neck , and I place the jar ...
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... called " spirits of hartshorn . " This ammonia is useful to plants , as we shall see by and by . Again , there is a great deal of water in the air , floating about as invisible vapour or water - dust , and this we shall speak of in the ...
... called " spirits of hartshorn . " This ammonia is useful to plants , as we shall see by and by . Again , there is a great deal of water in the air , floating about as invisible vapour or water - dust , and this we shall speak of in the ...
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Страница 154 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Страница 197 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Страница 3 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.