 | William Higgins - 1814 - 194 pagine
...combination, and joining those thai were previously at a distance. " In all chemical combinations, it has justly been considered an important object...which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass the relative weights of... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - 1847 - 584 pagine
...is somewhat like attempting to conceive the number of stars in the universe — we are confounded at the thought. But if we limit the subject, by taking...terminated here; whereas, from the relative weights M in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies might have been... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1860 - 972 pagine
...particles one from another, and to their reunion. No new creation or destruction of matter is w'uhin the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt...weights of the simples which constitute a compound. Jiut, unfortunately, the inquiry has terminated there; whereas, from the relative weights in the mass,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1867 - 1006 pagine
...investigations it has justly been considered an important object to ascertain the relative weight* of the simples which constitute a compound. But, unfortunately, the inquiry has terminated there ; whereas, from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles... | |
 | Robert Angus Smith - 1883 - 500 pagine
...were previously at a distance. 1 ' Subsequent experience renders this conjecture less probable.' ' In all chemical investigations, it has justly been...unfortunately the inquiry has terminated here; whereas, from t he relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1884 - 528 pagine
...particles that are in a state of cohesion ' or combination, and joining those that were previously at a 1 distance. ' In all chemical investigations it has...simples which constitute a compound. But unfortunately 'thj inquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative 'weights in the mass, the relative weights... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1884 - 558 pagine
...that were previously at a ' distance. ' In all chemical investigations it has justly been consider' ed an important object to ascertain the relative weights...simples which constitute a compound. But unfortunately ' thj inquiry has terminated here ; whereas from the relative 'weights in the mass, the relative weights... | |
 | John Dalton - 1893 - 60 pagine
...particle of hydrogen is like every other particle of hydrogen, &c. ON CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS. BY JOHN DALTON.* WHEN any body exists in the elastic state, its ultimate...which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of... | |
 | John Dalton - 1893 - 56 pagine
...all the rest, * From A New System of Chemical Philosophy, Manchester 1808, pp. 211-216 and 219-220. which by their gravity, or otherwise are disposed...which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - 1896 - 308 pagine
...143. Then he turns to the combining weights of the elements, and makes the following remarks, viz., " In all chemical investigations it has justly been...which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here ; whereas, from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights... | |
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Chemical analysis and synthesis go no farther than to the separation of particles one from another, and to their reunion. No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet... 
