A Guide To The Scientific Knowledge Of Things Familiar

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Author

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham, 1810-1897

Title

A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar

Credits

Produced by David Garcia, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

Q: Science

Subject

Science -- Juvenile literature

Category

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eBook-No.

40652

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40652

Release Date

September 3, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A GUIDE TO THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS FAMILIAR;
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.SUBJECTS OF THE CHAPTERS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
5. 5.CHAPTER I.
6. 6.CHAPTER II.
7. 7.CHAPTER III.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. SMOKE.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. LAMPS AND CANDLES.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. ANIMAL HEAT.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. MECHANICAL ACTION. 1.—PERCUSSION.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. 2.—FRICTION. 3.—CONDENSATION.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. EFFECTS OF HEAT. 1.—EXPANSION.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. EXPANSION FROM HEAT. (Continued.)
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. 2.—LIQUEFACTION. 3.—VAPORIZATION.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. 4.—EVAPORATION.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. COMMUNICATION OF HEAT. 1.—CONDUCTION.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. 2.—ABSORPTION OF HEAT.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. 3.—REFLECTION OF HEAT.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. 4.—RADIATION.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. 5.—CONVECTION.
22. 22.PART II.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. CARBONIC ACID GAS.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. CARBURETTED HYDROGEN GAS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. PHOSPHURETTED HYDROGEN GAS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. WIND.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. BAROMETER.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. SNOW. HAIL. RAIN.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. WATER.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. ICE.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. LIGHT.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. SOUND.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. MISCELLANEOUS.
35. 35.GLOSSARY.
36. 36.INDEX.

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