Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 47, 1908)American Philosophical Society |
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Page 176 - To form some conception of the degree of coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a globe of water or glass, as large as a football,1 to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule being magnified in the same proportion. The magnified structure would be more coarse grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarsegrained than a heap of footballs.
Page 177 - Kelvin has shown that, if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules of water would be of a size intermediate between that of a cricketball and of a marble.
Page 183 - ... the earth were perfectly rigid. It seems therefore nearly certain, with no other evidence than is afforded by the tides, that the tidal effective rigidity of the earth must be greater than that of glass.
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Page 157 - The New Theory of Earthquakes and Mountain Formation as illustrated by Processes now at work in the Depths of the Sea.
Page 17 - Further researches on the physics of the earth, and especially on the folding of mountain ranges and the uplift of plateaus and continents produced by movements of lava beneath the crust arising from the secular leakage of the ocean bottoms.
Page 312 - There are certain diseases in which these remedies are regularly prescribed, both for internal and external use. The value which they possess in these cases does not seem to have any relation to their use in the healthy organism except when properly prescribed as prophylactics. The fact that any remedy is useful in disease does not appear to logically warrant its use at any other time.
Page 175 - A cube, whose side is the 400th of a millimetre, may be taken as the minimum visible for (microscopic) observers of the present day. Such a cube would contain from 60 to 100 million molecules of oxygen or nitrogen " (cf. The article " Atom," Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, p. 42). If there be 400 molecules in a line the length of the edge of the cube just considered, the cube would contain 64,000,000, which agrees with Maxwell's estimate.
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Page 315 - ... either as such or in the form of benzoate of soda, is highly objectionable and produces a very serious disturbance of the metabolic functions, attended with injury to digestion and health. As in the case of boric acid, salicylic acid, and sulphurous acid, this injury manifests itself in a number of different ways, both in the production of unfavorable symptoms and in the disturbance of metabolism. These injurious effects are evident in the medical and clinical data which show grave disturbances...