| 1833 - 468 Seiten
...Sir Humphry experimented with the water from the most tranquil part of the lake, and found that it contained in solution more than its own volume of...of sulphuretted hydrogen, to the presence of which Sir Humphry ascribes its ancient use in curing cutaneous disorders : he found its temperature above... | |
| 1834 - 594 Seiten
...by which this water continually adds to the rocks around by petrifaction or incrustation. He says, that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. The temperature is eighty degrees of Fahrenheit, it is particularly fitted to afford nourishment to... | |
| Sir William Gell - 1834 - 500 Seiten
...by which this water continually adds to the rocks around by petrification or incrustation. He says, that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. The temperature is eighty degrees of Fahrenheit. It is particularly fitted to afford nourishment to... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 486 Seiten
...experiment," says Sir Humphry Davy, " that the water taken from the most tranquil part of the hike, even after being agitated and exposed to the air,...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. Its high temperature, which is pretty constant at 80° of Fahr., and the quantity of carbonic acid... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 Seiten
...appearance of being actually in ebullition. " I have found by experiment," says Sir Humphry Davy, " that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...exposed to the air, contained in solution more than its o*n volume of carbonic acid gas, with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. Its high temperature,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 Seiten
...appearance of being actually in ebullition. ' I have found by experiment,' says Sir Humphry Daw, ' that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...acid gas, with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydroo-en. Its high temperature, which is pretty constant at 80° of Fahr., and the quantity of carbonic... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1875 - 704 Seiten
...water in these lakes continually adds to the rocks around, by petrifaction or incrustation. He says, that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. The temperature is 80 degrees of Fahrenheit. It is peculiarly fitted to afford nourishment to vegetable... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1875 - 706 Seiten
...water in these lakes continually adds to the rocks around, by petrifaction or incrustation. He says, that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. The temperature is 80 degrees of Fahrenheit. It is peculiarly fitted to afford nourishment to vegetable... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 366 Seiten
...around, by petrifaction or incrustation. He says, that the water taken from the most tranquil part ol the lake, even after being agitated and exposed to...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. The temperature is 80 degrees of Fahrenheit. It is peculiarly fitted to afford nourishment to vegetable... | |
| Pausanias - 1898 - 692 Seiten
...appearance of being actually in ebullition. ' I have found by experiment,' says Sir Humphry Davy, ' that the water taken from the most tranquil part of...with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. Its high temperature, which is pretty constant at 80° of Fahr., and the quantity of carbonic acid... | |
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