Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 394
a soft,viscid, transparent, colorless substance, termed proto-plasm, which can be resolved into the four elements,oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon. Besides thesefour elements, living organisms commonly contain sul-phur, phosphorus, chlorine, potassium, sodium, calcium,magnesium and iron. In… … Fig. 2. A Tunicate {Ascidia). 360 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky distinguished, for as we have seen, inorganic bodies, m-stead of being thus uniformly constituted, may consistof the most diverse elements and sometimes of but twoor even of only one. Again, many minerals, such as crystals, are…
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