 | 1849 - 618 Seiten
...appears from the researches of Licbig and other eminent chemists, that when wood and vegetable matter are buried in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially...means, they become gradually converted into lignite, or wood coal, which contains a larger proportion of hydrogen, than wood does. A continuance of decomposition... | |
 | 1849 - 620 Seiten
...appears from the researches of Liebig and other eminent chemists, that when wood and vegetable matter are buried in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially...means, they become gradually converted into lignite, or wood coal, which contains a larger proportion of hydrogen, than wood does. A continuance of decomposition... | |
 | 1849 - 1230 Seiten
...from the researches of Liebig and other eminent ' chemists, that when wood and vegetable matter are buried ' in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially...carbonic acid gas, thus parting with a portion of their origi' nal oxygen. " By this means, they become gradually converted into : lignite, or wood coal, which... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1852 - 418 Seiten
...and other eminent chemists,' observes Sir Charles Lyell, ' that when wood and vegetable matter are buried in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially...means they become gradually converted into lignite or wood coal, which contains a larger proportion of hydrogen than wood does. A continuance of decomposition... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1852 - 578 Seiten
...appears from the researches of Liebig and other eminent chemists, that when wood and vegetable matter are buried in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially...parting with a portion of their original oxygen. By this moans, they become gradually converted into lignite or wood-coal, which contains a larger proportion... | |
 | William Bellamy (headmaster of Norwich diocesan model sch.) - 1853 - 286 Seiten
...the* researches of Liebig and other eminent chemists, that when wood and other vegetable matter are buried in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially...means they become gradually converted into lignite (the brown coal of the Germans) or wood-coal, which contains a larger proportion of hydrogen than wood... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 1855 - 700 Seiten
...appears from the researches of Liebig and other eminent chemists, that when wood and vegetable matter are buried in the earth exposed to moisture, and partially...they decompose slowly and evolve carbonic acid gas, thm parting with a portion of their original oxygen. By this means, they become gradually converted... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1855 - 444 Seiten
...from the researches of Liebig, and other eminent chemists, that when wood or other vegetable matter is buried in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially or entirely excluded from the air, it decomposes slowly, and evolves carbonic acid gas, — thus parting with a portion of its original... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1865 - 512 Seiten
...celebrated Baron von Liebeg, and other eminent chemists, that wood, and every kind of vegetable matter, when buried in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially or entirely excluded from the air, decomposes slowly, and evolves carbonic acid gas, thus parting with a portion of its original oxygen.... | |
 | James Austin Bastow - 1868 - 824 Seiten
...and vegetable matter are deposited in the earth, exposed to moisture, and excluded from the ¡iir, they decompose slowly, and evolve carbonic acid gas,...parting with a, portion of their original oxygen. Ey this means they become gradnally converted into lignite or wood-coal, which contains a larger proportion... | |
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It appears from the researches of Liebig and other eminent chemists, that when wood and vegetable matter are buried in the earth, exposed to moisture, and partially or entirely excluded from the air, they decompose slowly, and evolve carbonic acid gas,... 
