Everyday Mysteries: Secrets of Science in the HomeMacmillan, 1923 - 198 páginas |
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... 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 - CENT INVESTMENT . 124 • 137 146 • • . 163 172 . 179 • 185 } LIST OF PLATES PLATE 1 SNOW CRYSTALS 2 FACING.
... 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 - CENT INVESTMENT . 124 • 137 146 • • . 163 172 . 179 • 185 } LIST OF PLATES PLATE 1 SNOW CRYSTALS 2 FACING.
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... 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 process that it has been estimated that no less than 500,000 ...
... 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 process that it has been estimated that no less than 500,000 ...
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... ray photography of a very special kind invented in Eng- land just before the World War . What happens in evaporation is this : Some mole- cules , having happened to attain velocities above the average , escape from the liquid surface ...
... ray photography of a very special kind invented in Eng- land just before the World War . What happens in evaporation is this : Some mole- cules , having happened to attain velocities above the average , escape from the liquid surface ...
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... rays shining on your finger nail is about a calory each minute . It takes only 1/2 calory to raise the temperature of a gram of ice 1 ° Centigrade , but it takes 80 calories to melt one gram of ice into liquid water at freezing point ...
... rays shining on your finger nail is about a calory each minute . It takes only 1/2 calory to raise the temperature of a gram of ice 1 ° Centigrade , but it takes 80 calories to melt one gram of ice into liquid water at freezing point ...
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... rays . Of course everybody knows about the rainbow which forms whenever sun rays shine through water drops . You can see one on any sunny day by looking through a fountain or the spray of the garden hose . Every- body has his own ...
... rays . Of course everybody knows about the rainbow which forms whenever sun rays shine through water drops . You can see one on any sunny day by looking through a fountain or the spray of the garden hose . Every- body has his own ...
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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.
Página 104 - Hark ! hark ! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags and some in tags, And some in velvet gowns.
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.
Página 30 - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
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.