Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 246
as it would to raise 79 poundsof water 1°. The same law applies to steam. Water can be distilled in small quantities by an ap- DISTILLATION. 79 paratus, as figured in the illustration, and by these meanswe get rid, of all impurities which are: inseparable from theliquid otherwise. When it is… … The evaporation .of water, with its effects upon ourglobe, belong more to the study of Meteorology. Rain-water is the purest, as we have said, because itgoes through the process of distillation by nature. Thesua takes it up, by evaporation, into the air, where it iscondensed, and falls as…
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