| Sir Humphry Davy, George Sinclair, John Russell Duke of Bedford - Agricultural chemistry - 1815 - 452 pages
...which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water, it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the...and seems as it were to melt down and dissolve away. I have seen a large heap entirely destroyed in less than two years, nothing remaining but a little... | |
| Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1815 - 442 pages
...which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water, it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the...seems, as it were, to melt down and dissolve away. I have seen a large heap entirety de• stroyed in less than two years, nothing remaining but a little... | |
| Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 418 pages
...which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water, it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the...seems, as it were, to melt down and dissolve away. He has seen large heaps entirely destroyed in less than two years, nothing remaining but a little black... | |
| Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 512 pages
...which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the clemenU of waier, it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the atmosphere, and seems, as it were, to melt se. much diluted, that there was about only UMC two-hundredth part of solid vegetable or annual matter... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the...seems, as it were, to melt down and dissolve away. A large heap has been entirely destroyed in less than two years, nothing remaining but a little black... | |
| John S. Skinner - 1824 - 434 pages
...which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water, it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the...seems, as it were, to melt down and dissolve away. He has seen large heaps entirely destroyed in less than two years, nothing remaining but a little black... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water, it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the atmosphere, and seems, as it were, to meltdown and dissolve au ay. A large heap has been entirely destroyed in less than two years, nothing... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - Agriculture - 1826 - 1252 pages
...which is easily accounted for from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water, it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the...seems, as it were, to melt down and dissolve away. A large heap has been entirely destroyed in less than two years, nothing remaining but a little Mack... | |
| Library, John Baxter - Agriculture - 1830 - 614 pages
...n hich is easily accounted for from the large quantities of water or elements of water it contains. It decays without producing heat when exposed to the...and seems as it were to melt down and dissolve away ; large heaps have been destroyed in less than two years, nothing remaining but a little black fibrous... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 628 pages
...easily accounted for, from the large quantity of water, or the elements of water, which it contains. It decays without producing heat, when exposed to...seems, as it were, to melt down, and dissolve away. It should be used as fresh as it can be procured, and not suffered to lie in heaps, exposed to the air.... | |
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