Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 68
meteoriteseems to testify.The twoclasses of mete-orites, the stoneand the iron,show this fur-ther by the verydifferences they exhibit between themselves. For boththe amount and the proportions of the occluded gasesin the two prove to be quite distinct. In the stones thequantity of gas is greater… … Meteorite, Toluca.(Field Columbian Museum, Chicago.) co2 CO H CH4 11.5% 32.4% 54.1 % 00 % in ten of stone: — co2 CO H CH4 60.1 % 3.4% 32.0 % 2.1 % 44 THE EVOLUTION OF WORLDS The stones are much lighter than the iron, theirspecific gravities being as 3 to 7 or 8 for the metallic.The stones,…
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