A Year in Science: A Text-book for First Year in High SchoolsRow, Peterson, 1916 - 441 páginas |
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... SOIL . 186 Introduction ; Origin ; Kinds ; Clay ; Sand . CHAPTER XXV . INTRODUCTION TO PLANTS ... 193 Importance of plants ; Plants are composed of cells ; Com- position of protoplasm ; Properties of protoplasm ; Com- parison of plants ...
... SOIL . 186 Introduction ; Origin ; Kinds ; Clay ; Sand . CHAPTER XXV . INTRODUCTION TO PLANTS ... 193 Importance of plants ; Plants are composed of cells ; Com- position of protoplasm ; Properties of protoplasm ; Com- parison of plants ...
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... extreme cold and extreme heat . placed , bricks and even fence posts are likewise frequently pushed out of place by the action of freez- ing water in the soil . The effect of a change of temperature upon gases . EFFECT OF HEAT ON MATTER 17.
... extreme cold and extreme heat . placed , bricks and even fence posts are likewise frequently pushed out of place by the action of freez- ing water in the soil . The effect of a change of temperature upon gases . EFFECT OF HEAT ON MATTER 17.
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... soil and turf to exclude the air . Then a fire is started underneath the wood and although some of the wood burns , yet the greater portion only smolders . The result is that all other substances are driven off , leaving practically ...
... soil and turf to exclude the air . Then a fire is started underneath the wood and although some of the wood burns , yet the greater portion only smolders . The result is that all other substances are driven off , leaving practically ...
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... soil , and in the presence of sunlight convert them into starch ( or food for the plant ) . Oxygen is given back to the air by the plant as a waste product from this process . Thus the proper balance of carbon dioxide in the air is ...
... soil , and in the presence of sunlight convert them into starch ( or food for the plant ) . Oxygen is given back to the air by the plant as a waste product from this process . Thus the proper balance of carbon dioxide in the air is ...
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... soils , as plants can not grow without phosphorus . Large deposits of min- erals are found containing phosphates , which are extensively mined for use as fertilizers . Bone consists of 80 % of calcium phosphate , which , together with ...
... soils , as plants can not grow without phosphorus . Large deposits of min- erals are found containing phosphates , which are extensively mined for use as fertilizers . Bone consists of 80 % of calcium phosphate , which , together with ...
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A Year in Science: A Text-Book for First Year in High Schools Joseph Luther Thalman,Ada Louise Weckel Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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acid alcohol amount of heat atmosphere bacteria become body boiling point bone bottle burning called calories of heat carbon dioxide carried cause cavity cells centigrade CHAPTER charcoal chemical chemical compound chloric acid coal cold color compound contain cooled digestive diseases earth elements epidermis erosion fact Fahrenheit flask freezing friction match gases germs glands hard water hydrochloric acid hydrogen important inch insects inter-molecular spaces intestine iron known land layer liquid living matter melting mercuric oxide mercury mixture molecules mountain mouth muscles Name necessary nerve nitrogen organs oxide oxygen particles passes phosphorus physical plants and animals point of water pollen pressure produced protoplasm rain regions result river rock roots salt sand sodium hydroxide soil solid starch stream structure substances sugar sulphur sulphur dioxide surface temperature test tube thermometer tissue tumbler waste products water vapor weather winds wood
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Página 386 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Página 387 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 170 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Página 387 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts...
Página 387 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out..
Página 161 - THE SEA. I am the Sea. I hold the land As one holds an apple in his hand. Hold it fast with sleepless eyes, Watching the continents sink and rise. Out of my bosom the mountains grow, Back to its depths they crumble slow : The earth is a helpless child to me — I am the Sea! I am the Sea. When I draw back Blossom and verdure follow my track, And the land I leave grows proud and fair, For the wonderful race of...
Página 387 - Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying,
Página 161 - ... rise and reign and die, Living and dying in folly and pain, While the laws of the universe thunder in vain. What is the folly of man to me? I am the Sea ! I am the Sea. The earth I sway ; Granite to me is potter's clay ; Under the touch of my careless waves It rises in turrets and sinks in caves ; The iron cliffs that edge the land I grind to pebbles and sift to sand, And beach-grass bloweth and children play In what were the rocks of yesterday. It is but a moment of sport to me. I am the Sea...
Página 152 - ... if the earth's axis were perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, and the excessive variation which would result if the axis were nearly parallel to that plane.
Página 159 - evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the change of the seasons.