Since the waste is almost wholly superficial, earthy matter, which was at first concealed in the mass of the glacier, is continually coming to view, as the surface melts and runs off.
Winds have considerable power in changing the place of earthy matter in a disintegrated state.
Another change at the surface consists in the formation of a soil; that is, of a superficial layer, of no great thickness, of earthy matter, a large proportion of which is always in a minutely divided state.
If a young animal, as the colt, be put to severe, continued labor, the deposition of earthy matter is hastened, and the bones are consolidated before they attain full growth.
The lower extremities, in early life, contain but a small proportion of earthy matter; they bend when the weight of the body is thrown upon them for a long time.
AEther burns without smoke, as Spirit of Wine does, and without leaving any coal or earthy matter behind; because the inflammable or oily parts contained in it are, in this respect, disposed like those of Spirit of Wine.
This may be owing to the considerable quantity of earthy matter which it contains, and which, perhaps, may also be one of the causes that contribute to give its Salt a concrete form.
The hard, polished, and ivory-like appearance of the articular surface, would lead us to suppose that it contained an unusual quantity of earthy matter, yet an analysis by Dr.
The bones of rickety subjects are soft, cellular, and of a brown colour, contain a dark fluid, and are very deficient in earthy matter.
In many subjects, without actual disease of the osseous tissue, the heads of the bones are so altered in consistence, are so deficient of earthy matter, as to be easily cut with a knife.
The more indurated varieties often include many small and some larger angular cavities, which appear due to the removal of earthy matter: some varieties contain mica.
The immense transportation of earthy matter by the Ganges and Brahmapootra is proved by the great magnitude of the islands formed in their channels during a period far short of that of a man's life.
But the springs called mineral contain an unusual abundance of earthy matter in solution, and the substances with which they are impregnated correspond remarkably with those evolved in a gaseous form by volcanoes.
Tartar according to him, is the principle of all the maladies proceeding from the thickening of the humours, the rigidity of the solids, or the accumulation of earthy matter.
This organization was incompatible with the opinion of those who thought that bones increased by the addition of an earthy matter deposited in the meshes of the organized network which forms the texture of bones.
Mr. Cavendish found that when boiled, it deposited a quantity of earthy matter, consisting chiefly of lime, but containing also a little magnesia.
Two men reported that they had there found a mine of silver, and brought to the mint a quantity of earthy matter reduced to powder, from which was smelted a small ingot of that metal.
The bones consist of earthy matter, chiefly phosphate of lime, held together by a sort of cartilage, and arranged in fine scales or plates forming interstices or cells (fig.
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