They have recently discovered there is no such thing as solid matter.
But the marvelous powers of this invisible force appals the stolid thinkers on "solid matter.
Scientists used to put great stress on solid matter, and their primary division of matter was into solid, liquid and gaseous.
The total amount of solid matter in rain water reaches 50 grams per cubic metre.
The Neva is characterised by the remarkably small amount of solid matter it contains.
By its magnetic properties iron thus reveals itself as a substance capable of assuming the condition of solid matter to a degree surpassing ordinary solidity.
By this process the part of the salt substance concerned loses its connexion with the liquid and contracts into individually outlined and spatially defined pieces of solid matter.
The amount of solid matter in solution ranges from 2 to 7 grains per gallon.
RAIN WATER contains, among natural waters, the smallest amount of solid matter in solution.
According to Anselmino the proportion ofsolid matter in the perspiration varies from 5 to 12.
From certain specimens weighing from ten to twelve pounds, only six to seven pennyweights could be obtained of solid matter, according to Frédol.
The best Buhr-stones for grinding corn, have about an equal proportion of solid matter, and of vacant space.
The fact of the increase of the brilliancy and whiteness of flame by the development and ignition of solid matterin its bosom, illustrates many curious phenomena.
A plant exposed to the action of natural or artificial decomposition passes into air, leaving but a few grains of solid matter behind it.
By the processes of art and manufacture, by the operation of those powers on which organisation and life depend, solid matter is constantly poured off in such a state that it cannot be detected, as matter, by any of the human senses.
It is true that the actual mass of solid matter, left by the decay of dead domestic quadrupeds and permanently added to the crust of the earth, is not so great as this calculation makes it.
With an increased rainfall, such as we have supposed, this removal of solid matter by solution must have been considerable; but still nothing in comparison with that effected by the other denuding agencies which have been mentioned.
The amount of solid matter suspended in turbid water is greater than might be imagined.
The laws of their formation are closely analogous, because the action of the two fluids, by which they are respectively accumulated and built up, is very similar when brought to bear upon loose particles of solid matter.
In a hen's egg it is alkaline, and contains about 86 per cent of water and 14 per cent of solid matter, the greater portion of which is egg albumin.
Here, you see, is an arrangement by which I can shake a quantity of solid matter (lycopodium) into the non-luminous alcohol flame.
But my hydrogen yields me no soot or solid matter whatsoever (Fig.
And now if what I have said is correct, the hydrogen flame to which I have imparted a large quantity of solid matter ought to produce a good light, and so it does!
The light of the candle is due to the intensely heated solid matter in the flame; the absence of light in the hydrogen flame depends on the absence of solid matter.
These experiments, and many others, show that the mere cooling of vapour in air will not condense it into mist clouds or rain, unless particles of solid matter are present to form nuclei upon which condensation can begin.
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