First Principles of Chemistry: Being a Familiar Introduction to the Study of that Science ...Harper & Brothers, 1840 - 444 pages |
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Page 429 - Ratio is the relation which one quantity bears to another of the same kind, the comparison being made by considering what multiple, part, or parts, one quantity is of the other.
Page 416 - A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution of a rightangled parallelogram about one of its sides which remains fixed. XXII. The axis of a cylinder is the fixed straight line about which the parallelogram revolves. XXIII. The bases of a cylinder are the circles described by the two revolving opposite sides of the parallelogram.
Page 414 - CALORIC, from color, heat ; an imaginary fluid substance, supposed to be diffused through all bodies, and the sensible effect of which is called heat. CALORIFIC ; imparting the sensation and other effects of heat. CALORIMETER, from color, heat, and metrum, a measure ; an instrument for measuring caloric.
Page 427 - PELLICLE, a diminutive from pettis, a skin or crust ; a thin crust formed on the surface of a solution by evaporization. PENDULUM, from pendeo, to hang ; a heavy body so suspended that it may vibrate, or swing backward and forward about some fixed point, by the action of gravity. PERCOLATE, from per, through, and colo, to strain ; to strain through. PERMEATE, hompermeo, to pass through; to penetrate.
Page 56 - The ratio between the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is called the index of refraction.
Page 415 - CONK, -ICAL, and -ic ; a solid figure, having a circular base, and its other extremity or vertex terminated by a point. CONGELATION, from con, together, and gelo, to freeze ; the process of freezing. CONGERIES, from congeries, a heap ; a mass of bodies heaped up together. CONSTITUENT, from constituo, to put together ; that of which anything consists or is made up. CONTACT, from con, together, and tango, to touch ; the relative state of two things which touch one another, but do not cut. CONTRACTION,...
Page 432 - OF, from torqueo, to twist; a term applied by Coulomb to denote the effort made by a thread which has been twisted to untwist itself. TRANSPARENT ; a term to denote the quality of a substance which not only admits the passage of light, but also of the vision of external objects. TRITURATED, from trituro, to thrash ; reduced to powder.
Page 433 - VIBRATION, from vibro, to brandish ; the regular reciprocating motion of a body, as of a pendulum, &c. ; a motion to and fro. VOLUME, from volumen, a roll ; the apparent space occupied by a body.
Page 426 - ... atmosphere. NODES, -AL, from nodus, a. knot ; in the doctrine of curves, a node is a small oval figure made by the intersection of one branch of a curve with another. NORMAL, from norma, a rule ; according to rule. NUCLEUS, from nucleus, a kernel ; the central parts of a body which are supposed to be firmer, and separated from the other parts, as the kernel of a nut is from the shell ; also, the point about •which matter is collected.
Page 426 - Parabola, one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of a plane and a cone when the plane passes parallel to the side of the cone Parabolic Pyramidoid, a solid generated by supposing all the squares of the...