Volume 5

Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, considered in its present state of improvement / By the late George Adams.

  • George Adams Jr.
Date:
1799
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    INDEX A.B. The Roman Characters devote the Volume: thus, i. if. iii. Jv. The Arabic Numbers, the Page: thus, 1, 2, 3, &c. A Acid Liquors, the variety in their freezing, ii. 63. Agency active in nature, iii. 23S» Air, a fluid, the nature and properties of it, i. 4Q. Effects pro.* duced by it, ib. Its resistance, ib. 54. Its weight, lb. 56. Its pressure in every direction, ib. 57, 81. Its force equally extended, ib. 6l. By it is explained the suction of animals, ib. 6g. Its weight sustains the column of mercury in the barometer, ib. 78. Its vast pressure on the earth, ib. 82. Its elasticity proved, ib. 83, 8/. And differently accounted for, ib. Q3. Is caused by Are, ib. Q4. Is capable of raising great weights, ib. 85. The air in timber causes it to swim, ib. 01. Continued varieties in nature caused by air, ib. Q2. Its elasticity is always equal to the force which compresses it, ib. Q5. Its elasticity undestroyed, ib. 10(). Air expands by heat and contracts by cold, ib. Ill, 112. Is the cause of winds, ib. 114. The benefits of fresh and cool air, ib. 115. Carries off smoke, ib. 117. Enlivens fire, ib. 118. Different currents of air in chimnies in summer time, ib. 127. Effects of condensed air, ib. 129. Produces fountains and jets, ib. 135. Different calculations of the dilatation of air, ib. 137. Raises water thirty-four feet, ib. 139. Cannot be totally exhausted from the receiver of the air-pump, ib. 154. The quantities of air exhausted at every stroke are not equal, but are perpetually diminished, ib. 158. The different methods of extracting it from the bodies which contain it, ib. 206'. By heat, by cold, by exhaustion, and by dissolution, ib. 20/. Air is contained in water, ib. 208. In eggs, 209. In wood, ib. The pres- sure of it may produce the finest anatomical injections, ib. 211 An condensed retards fermentation, ib. 213. Air is a resisting
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