Earth and Its Treasures: a Description of the Metallic and Mineral Wealth of NatureT. Nelson and Sons, 1875 - 405 Seiten |
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Earth and Its Treasures: A Description of the Metallic and Mineral Wealth of ... Arthur Mangin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
Earth and Its Treasures: A Description of the Metallic and Mineral Wealth of ... Arthur Mangin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
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acid agate alabaster alloy alumina aluminium ancient antimony beautiful Bismuth blue bodies brilliancy bronze calcium called carats carbonic acid cast-iron CHAPTER charcoal chemical chemists chloride chromates chromium cloth cobalt colour combination compounds copper corundum crystals density deposits diamond ductile emerald employed Engravings extraction France French fuses garnet gems gold grains granite gray green hard heat hyaline hydrochloric acid idocrase Iridium jewellers kind known latter lead less limestone magnesia malleable manganese manufacture marble masses mercury metalloids metals mineral mineralogists mines natural nearly nickel obtained opal Oriental ornamental oxide oxide of iron oxygen Palladium plates platinum polish porphyry possesses potash powder precious stones Price principal properties protoxide pure quantity quarries quartz resemblance Rhodium rocks Rubidium ruby Ruthenium salt sandstone sapphire silica silver soda sometimes species specific gravity stalagmites substance sulphate sulphur sulphuret temperature Terbium tint tion topaz Turquoise variety veins yellow zinc
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Seite 365 - Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair, Wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant. Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods? Why, this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads: This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench...
Seite 29 - The nummulitic formation, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia...
Seite 367 - In his realm there is hatred — secret hatred; there is disgust — unspoken disgust ; there is treachery — family treachery : there is vice — deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions children grow unloving between parents who have never loved ; infants are nursed on deception from their very birth ; they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies.
Seite 366 - Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best — making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius, and fetters the dead to the living.
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