A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 249
utiful symmetry, as seen in Fig. 206(page 236). Similar flower-like shapes may be seen onmelting the interior of a block of ice by the aid of abeam of sunlight or the electric lamp. The compressibility of water is demonstrated andmeasured by an instrument invented by Oersted, inwhich pressure can… … caught in a vessel placed to receive them. This liquidis water, which has arisen from the union of hydrogenwith the oxygen of the air. It may be slightly acid, SYNTHESIS OF WATER. 237 from the presence of nitric acid produced by oxidationof the nitrogen of the air. If in a vessel over the mercurial…
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