Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts, Հատոր 13

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The Institute, 1900
Vol. 8-14 include "Review of American chemical research" edited by Arthur A. Noyes.

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Էջ 141 - In health, no oxalic acid, or only a trace, is formed in the body, but that present in the urine has been ingested with the food.
Էջ 104 - Jersey; and it is to be regarded as one of the most important as well as one of the latest formations of the Atlantic seaboard. It belongs chiefly, at least, to the Lafayette division of the Neocene period; while the underlying blue clay and gray gravel may be referred, provisionally, to the Chesapeake division of the Neocene. Origin of the Terminal Moraine, the So-Called " Back-Bone
Էջ 64 - Eng. Min.J., 69, 164. — The sample of slag is dissolved in very dilute nitric acid, and any barium present is precipitated by the addition of a few drops of sulphuric acid. The solution is now made almost neutral with dilute ammonia, and the calcium precipitated by the addition of ammonium oxalate. This precipitate contains no iron or aluminum, and can be washed free from ammonium oxalate, dissolved, and oxidized with standard potassium permanganate solution. The entire analysis may be completed...
Էջ iii - THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. The objects of this Society are to awaken and maintain an active interest in the practical sciences, and to aid generally in their advancement and development in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. The Society invites all who have any valuable knowledge of this kind, which they are willing to contribute, to attend its meetings, and become members.
Էջ 89 - ... of paper tied to them, should be let fall at stated periods from some of the higher kites ; which was accomplished by the gradual singeing of a match-line. When engaged in these experiments, though now and then they communicated immediately with the clouds, yet, as this happened always in fine dry weather, no symptoms whatever of an electrical nature came under their observation. The sublime analysis of the thunder-bolt, and of the electricity of the atmosphere, lay yet entirely undiscovered,...
Էջ 107 - The Gluten Constituents of Wheat and Flour and Their Relation to Bread-making Qualities.
Էջ 239 - Water evaporated from and at 212° F. per square foot of heating surface per hour Ibs. !i Per sq. ft. of grate surWater evaporated per hour | face Ibs from temperature of 100
Էջ 93 - January. 1897, a grant of money was allotted from the Hodgkins fund of the Smithsonian Institution for the purpose of obtaining meteorological records at heights exceeding 10,000 feet, and no doubt the first application of steam to kiteflying was the winch built by Mr. Fergusson, with ingenious devices for distributing, oiling, and measuring the length of wire. The cumulative pressure of the successive coils of wire finally crushed the drum, and the next apparatus applied the principle of Sir William...
Էջ 98 - During the summer of 1898 the United States Weather Bureau undertook to obtain daily from seventeen stations equipped with kites (situated chiefly in the Mississippi Valley), automatic records at a height of about a mile, with which to draw a synoptic chart of the upper air for forecasting in connection with a similar chart of surface observations. The high-level chart could not be drawn regularly on account of light winds at some stations, but much data concerning temperature gradients were obtained,...
Էջ 25 - Ingot Mould for Casting Brass or Bronze Ingots, with Remarks on the General Form of Ingots.

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