Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 242
ents of water are com- THE EUDIOMETER. 75 posed by synthesis, or a putting together of the constituentsof a body to make it up. This is distinguished from analysis,which means separating the compound body into itselements, as we do when we pass the electric currentthrough water. The Eudiometer… … The Eudiometer. the same metal. Hydrogen, and then oxygen, are admittedthrough the mercury in the recognised proportion of twoto one. By the time the mercury is somewhat more thanhalf displaced, the tube should be held upon a sheet ofindia-rubber at the bottom of the vessel to keep the metalin the…
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