The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 195
ents. To others they have appeared to have the formof lice-grains. On portions of the suns disk the elemen-tary structure is often composed of long, narrow, blunt-ended filaments, not so much like willow-leaves as like bitsof straw lying roughly parallel to each other, — a thatch-straw formation,… … ASTRONOMY. 177 and composed of partially condensed metallic vapors, justas the clouds of our atmosphere are composed of partiallycondensed aqueous vapor. Rain on the sun is composedof white-hot drops of molten iron and other metals; andthese drops are often driven with the wind with a velocityof…
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