 | John Lee Comstock - 1813 - 448 sider
...combinations with other bodies'^ 17. When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas. and...lost is proved by the fact, that if the water, acid, gasses, and charcoal, be collected and weighed, they will be found exactly as heavy as the wood was,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1836 - 308 sider
...original state again on cooling. When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas, and...exactly as heavy as the wood was, before distillation. The decay of animal or vegetable bodies in the open aiir, or in the ground, is only a process by which... | |
 | 1842 - 496 sider
...combinations with other bodies. When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas, and...lost, is proved by the fact, that if the water, acid, gasses, and charcoal, be collected and weighed, they will be found exactly as heavy as the wood was,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 sider
...combinations with other bodies. When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas, and...lost is proved by the fact, that if the water, acid, gates, and charcoal, be collected and weighed, they will be found exactly as heavy as the wood was,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 938 sider
...combinations with other bodies. When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas, and...is lost is proved by the fact, that if the water, ncid, gases, and charcoal, be collected and weighed, they will be found exactly as heavy as the wood... | |
 | 1844 - 836 sider
...combinations with other bodies. When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas, and...The wood is thus decomposed, or destroyed, and its parades take a new arrangement, and assume new forms ; but that nothing is lost is proved by the fact,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock, Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1846 - 148 sider
...several kinds of gas, ' and a black, porous substance, called charcoal. The wood is thus decomposed, and its particles take a new arrangement, and assume...exactly as heavy as the wood was before distillation. 7. What is meant by indestructibility? How may a liquid, which has been reduced to vapour, be restored... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 sider
...several kinds of gas, and a black, porous substance, called charcoal. The wood is thus decomposed, and its particles take a new arrangement, and assume...exactly as heavy as the wood was before distillation. 8. Attraction.—Attraction is the property by which bodies tend towards each other. This property... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1852 - 576 sider
...combinations with other bodies. 18. When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas, and...exactly as heavy as the wood was before distillation. 19. Bones, flesh, or any other animal substance, may in the same manner be made to assume new forms,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1854 - 418 sider
...combinations with other bodies. 18. When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas, and...exactly as heavy as the wood was before distillation. 19. Bones, flesh, or any other animal substance, may in the same manner be made to assume new forms,... | |
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When a piece of wood is heated in a close vessel, such as a retort, we obtain water, an acid, several kinds of gas, and there remains a black, porous substance, called charcoal. The wood is thus decomposed or destroyed, and its particles take a new arrangement,... 
