The American Exchange and Review, Volume 22

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Whiting & Company, 1873 - Finance

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Page 220 - ... greater. It is difficult to avoid associating the inertness of colloids with their high equivalents, particularly where the high number appears to be attained by the repetition of a smaller number. The inquiry suggests itself whether the colloid molecule may not be constituted by the grouping together of a number of smaller crystalloid molecules, and whether the basis of colloidality may not really be this composite character of the molecule.
Page 55 - If we suppose that it were impossible to liquefy the vapor of mercury, and consider that it is colorless, inodorous, and transparent as hydrogen, we shall have a correct idea of the views I wish to establish. By degrees you will learn to appreciate the correctness of this new theory when, for instance, you study the different compound bodies of which hydrogen is a counterpart. The ensemble of the properties approaches, in fact, to mercury and potassium.
Page 129 - ... adorns this city of monolith temples and colossi, must have been performed without the aid of fire — with the hammer, chisel, lever, and wedge alone ; and this is one of the hardest rocks in the world ! (82) ALBOLITHE CEMENT. A NEW cement, stated to possess excellent hardening qualities, is made by calcining magnesite (the carbonate of magnesia) in ovens similar to those used for gas-making, after which it is pulverized and mixed with a quantity of fine silica. The cement is declared to possess...
Page 20 - ... a mightier Rome, girding it with defences stronger than walls, and founding a more enduring liberty. But the triumph was short Rienzi's enthusiasm was doubtless from the beginning tinged with insanity. Drunk with vanity, too often drunk with wine, he thought only of devising incongruous titles and decorations for himself. He called himself not only Tribune but Augustus, he bathed in a vase of porphyry traditionally sacred as the baptismal font of Constantine, he was knighted in the Lateran church,...
Page 295 - Every wave has a back and front, and, if you clearly seize the image of the moving wave, you will see that every particle of water along the front of the wave is in the act of rising, while every particle along its back is in the act of sinking. The particles in front reach in succession the crest of the wave, and as soon as...
Page 174 - ... should be separated by a distance equal to half their combined height. Thus, for instance, a building of sixty feet and a building of thirty feet high might s'afely occupy sides of a street fortyfive feet wide.* .... " With a well-organized and properly equipped fire brigade it is found that sixty feet is the greatest height at which a building can be quickly protected, and that the cube of 60, or 216,000 cubic feet, is the largest cubical capacity which can be protected with reasonable hope...
Page 220 - CjsHnOn, but judging from the small proportions of lime and potash which suffice to neutralize this acid, the true numbers of its formula must be several times greater. It is difficult to avoid associating the inertness of colloids with their high equivalents...
Page 353 - ... things than business which gives an anxious and unhappy turn to our minds. It cannot be many years before the madness of devoting the whole day to the toils of the countinghouse will be acknowledged ; before the claim of body and mind to relaxation and cheerful, exhilarating amusement will be seen. We consider the common suspicion which is felt of amusements among thoughtful people to be one of the most serious evils to which our community is exposed. It outlaws a natural taste, and violates...
Page 17 - Petrarch's parents were Florentines, of the Ghibelline faction, and were living in poverty and exile at Arezzo, when their son was born. When he was eight years old they removed to Avignon, then the residence of the Popes ; and there, for the best part of his life, he resided, in the city or the...
Page 214 - Many of the women were very pretty, and, like all ladies, would have been much prettier if they had only let themselves alone. Fortunately, the dears could not change their charming black eyes, beautiful foreheads, nicely rounded limbs, well-shaped forms, and small hands and feet. But they must adorn themselves ; and this they do — oh, the hussies ! — by filing their splendid teeth to points like cats

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