(Kidd's Essays and sketches).

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Página 6 - ... red-hot crucible which contains liquid sulphuric acid, it will be changed into ice. To those who are not versed in science, this appears an extraordinary exception to the law. But the scientific man may note it down as a triumph. He knows that actions here take place which obey different laws. The one is the communication of heat, by which water receives a higher degree of heat ; the second is evaporation, which produces cold. Liquid sulphuric acid evaporates with a greater rapidity than most...
Página 3 - Not content With every food of life to nourish man, Makes all nature beauty to his eye And music to his ear.

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