The New ChemistryD. Appleton, 1876 - 333 páginas |
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Página 50 - Avogadro's principle or hypothesis, which states that equal volumes of all gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules, was the extension of Dalton's Atomic Theory necessary to put the theoretical interpretation of chemistry on a solid foundation.
Página 212 - ... human agency can withstand, does it seem as if any power could undo that work of destruction, and rebuild those beams and rafters which are disappearing in the flames ? Yet in a few years they will be rebuilt. This mighty force will be overcome ; not, however, as we might expect, amidst the convulsion of nature, or the clashing of the elements, but silently, in a delicate leaf waving in the sunshine.
Página 68 - The specific gravity of any substance is the ratio of the weight of that substance to the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard.