A Class-book of Chemistry: In which the Principles of the Science are Familiarly Explained and Applied to the Arts, Agriculture, Physiology, Dietetics, Ventilation, and the Most Important Phenomena of Nature : Designed for the Use of Academies and Schools and for Popular ReadingD. Appleton & Company, 1858 - 340 Seiten |
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Seite 320 - We carefully remove impurities from what we eat and drink, filter turbid water, and fastidiously avoid drinking from a cup that may have been pressed to the lips of a friend. On the other hand, we resort to places of assembly, and draw into our mouths air loaded with effluvia from
Seite 322 - ... formed, at all points where water and alcohol meet, mixtures of the two; and, as the animal texture absorbs much less of an alcoholic mixture than of pure water, a larger amount of water is of course expelled, than of alcohol taken up ; and the first result is a shrinking of the animal substance.
Seite 324 - It is, consequently, obvious, that by the use of alcohol a limit must rapidly be put to the change of matter in certain parts of the body. The oxygen of the arterial blood, which, in the absence of alcohol, would have combined with the matter of the tissues, or with that formed by the metamorphosis THE PHENOMENA OF MOTION of these tissues, now combines with the elements of alcohol.
Seite 96 - When respired, carbonic acid is fatal to life. If pure, it produces spasm of the glottis, closes the air passages, and thus kills suddenly by suffocation. "When diluted with even ten times its bulk of air, and taken into the system, it acts as a narcotic poison, gradually producing stupor, insensibility, and death. This gas often accumulates at the bottom of wells, and in cellars, stifling those who may unwarily descend. To test its presence in such cases, it is common to lower a lighted candle into...
Seite 252 - ... or mince-meat, is uniformly mixed with its own weight of cold water, slowly heated to boiling, and the liquid, after boiling briskly for a minute or two...
Seite 62 - There is nothing in which the different effect of hard and soft water is so evident, as in the stomach and digestive organs of the horse. Hard water, drawn fresh from the well, will assuredly make the coat of a horse unaccustomed to it stare, and it will not unfrequently gripe and otherwise injure him.
Seite 320 - ... water, and fastidiously avoid drinking from a cup that may have been pressed to the lips of a friend. On the other hand, we resort to places of assembly, and draw into our mouths air loaded with effluvia from the lungs and skin and clothing of every individual in the promiscuous crowd : exhalations, offensive to a certain extent from the most healthy individuals, but which, rising from a living mass of skin and lung in...
Seite 63 - The solid constituents of sea water amount to about 3£ per cent, of its weight, or nearly half an ounce to the pound. Its saltness may be considered as a necessary result of the present order of things.