Everyday Mysteries: Secrets of Science in the HomeMacmillan, 1923 - 198 páginas |
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... OCEAN ? . XV THE DIVIDED CROWN . XVI THE STORY OF THE Old Shoes XVII THE EARLY MORNING VISITOR XVIII COOKING BY SUN RAYS . PAGE • 1 · 19 · 30 · 42 51 60 68 77 • 86 • 92 97 · 104 · 112 · XIX HOW THE SUN MAKES PLANTS GROW XX THE Two ...
... OCEAN ? . XV THE DIVIDED CROWN . XVI THE STORY OF THE Old Shoes XVII THE EARLY MORNING VISITOR XVIII COOKING BY SUN RAYS . PAGE • 1 · 19 · 30 · 42 51 60 68 77 • 86 • 92 97 · 104 · 112 · XIX HOW THE SUN MAKES PLANTS GROW XX THE Two ...
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... ocean water to boiling or any- where approaching it , the sun rays keep it warm enough to continually evaporate . The winds help by carrying away the water vapor thus formed , and so immense is the ocean area , and so unceasing the ...
... ocean water to boiling or any- where approaching it , the sun rays keep it warm enough to continually evaporate . The winds help by carrying away the water vapor thus formed , and so immense is the ocean area , and so unceasing the ...
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... ocean water evaporates the water molecules go off alone , and leave the salt molecules behind . Hence rain water , apart from minute proportions of dust and carbonic acid gas and of air itself acquired while in the atmosphere , comes ...
... ocean water evaporates the water molecules go off alone , and leave the salt molecules behind . Hence rain water , apart from minute proportions of dust and carbonic acid gas and of air itself acquired while in the atmosphere , comes ...
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... decide that some other natural liquids than water really exist , what trifling quantities would they present compared to the ocean of water ! There are 5,000,000,000,000,000 tons of air in the world , but 6 Everyday Mysteries.
... decide that some other natural liquids than water really exist , what trifling quantities would they present compared to the ocean of water ! There are 5,000,000,000,000,000 tons of air in the world , but 6 Everyday Mysteries.
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... oceans whose average depth exceeds 12,000 feet . Altogether these bodies of water weigh more than 250 times as much as the air ! Third , chemical properties . Water is composed of the two common gases , oxygen and hydrogen . Every time ...
... oceans whose average depth exceeds 12,000 feet . Altogether these bodies of water weigh more than 250 times as much as the air ! Third , chemical properties . Water is composed of the two common gases , oxygen and hydrogen . Every time ...
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Página 125 - We were drawing nine! My hands were in a nerveless flutter. I could not ring a bell intelligibly with them. I flew to the speakingtube and shouted to the engineer: " Oh, Ben, if you love me, back her! Quick, Ben! Oh, back the immortal soul out of her!
Página 14 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths ; their soul is melted because of trouble, They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Página 15 - They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Página 138 - I know that my REDEEMER liveth, And that He shall stand in the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, Yet in my flesh shall I see God : Whom I shall see for myself, And mine eyes shall behold, and not another.
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Página 137 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother- wit, and arts unknown before.
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Página 139 - Some talk of Alexander, And some of Hercules ; Of Hector and Lysander, And such great names as these...
Página 190 - This book was written at Orrhoa, a city of Mesopotamia, by the hands of a man named Jacob, in the year seven hundred and twenty-three. In the month Tishrin the latter it was completed.
Página 124 - Half twain!" This was frightful! I seized the bell-ropes and stopped the engines. "Quarter twain! Quarter twain! Mark twain!" I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and I could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.