 A piece of potassium contains less potassium than an equal piece of the potash formed by it and oxygen. We may cast into potassium oxygen atom for atom, and then again both oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number of atoms, and yet, with all these additions,...  Experimental Researches in Electricity - Page 286by Michael Faraday - 1844 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Meteorology - 1844 - 950 pages
...may cast into potassium oxygen atom for atom, and then again both oxygen and hydrogen in a two fold number of atoms, and yet, with all these additions,...contains 45 atoms, the same bulk of hydrate of potassa contains70 atoms nearly of the metal potaisium, and, besides that, 210 atoms more of oxygen and hydrogen.... | |
 | 1844 - 766 pages
...its volume, for the metal itself occupies more space than the metal and its bulk of other matter. " We may cast into potassium, oxygen atom for atom,...shall become less and less, until it is not two-thirds ol its original volume." I begin to feel, however, that to abstract or outline an argument of which... | |
 | Robert Hare - Christian ethics - 1856 - 508 pages
...potassium oxygen, atom for atom, and then again both oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number of atoms, and with all these additions the matter shall become less...not two-thirds of its original volume. If a given balk of potassium contains 45 atoms, the same bulk of hydrate of potassa contains 70 atoms nearly of... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Change of state (Physics) - 1862 - 240 pages
...disproved by the facts of chemical combination. " We may cast into potassium oxygen, atom for atom, and again both oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number...these additions, the matter shall become less and less in bulk, till it is not two-thirds of its original volume. A space which would contain 2800 atoms,... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Change of state (Physics) - 1862 - 254 pages
...disproved by the facts of chemical combination. " We may cast into potassium oxygen, atom for atom, and again both oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number...these additions, the matter shall become less and less in bulk, till it is not two-thirds of its original volume. A space which would contain 2800 atoms,... | |
 | Key - Ether (Space) - 1866 - 292 pages
...been thus strikingly illustrated by Faraday : " We may cast into potassium oxygen, atom for atom, and, again, both oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number...these additions the matter shall become less and less in bulk, till it is not two-thirds of its original volume. A space which would contain 2800 atoms,... | |
 | George Jamieson - Causation - 1872 - 498 pages
...another ; " if it be true that " we may cast into potassium (c '.<).), atom for atom of oxygen, and again, both oxygen and hydrogen, in a twofold number...these additions, the matter shall become less and less in bulk, ' it is tolerably obvious that the doctrine of impenetrability is quite an illusion, and that... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1875 - 500 pages
...a vacuum to another. "We may cast potassium into oxygen/' says Faraday, " atom for atom, and again oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number of atoms ;...these additions the matter shall become less and less in bulk till it is not two thirds of its original volume. A space which would contain 2,800 atoms,... | |
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