Funk discovered in rice polishings a substance which he believed to be a cure and preventive of Beri-beri; to this substance, which is now believed to be identical with the second substance found in milk, he gave the name "vitamine.
This should be well greased (do not use glycerin as this substance is irritating to the mucous lining of the rectum).
This substance is composed of hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two to one; that is, to each atom of oxygen there will be found two atoms of hydrogen.
When the action is not brought about directly by the cell itself, but by means of a substance secreted by the cell but acting apart from it, this substance is called a soluble or unorganized ferment or 'enzyme.
This substance is rich in the antiscorbutic vitamine, and according to experiments made by Sherman, LeMer and Campbell, loses fifty per cent.
From what has been said regarding the richness in potash of certain commonly occurring minerals, such as felspar, it is only natural to infer that most soils must contain large quantities of this substance; and this is so.
In this substance we have a most important addition to our phosphatic manures.
This substance is a good absorbent, but is of little value as a manurial substance.
This substance, extracted from muscle, was kindly prepared for me by Dr.
I at first concluded, as already stated, that the secretion could not digest this substance.
This substance, therefore, like fibrin, excites the leaves for only a short time.
This substance is composed of two albuminoids, one soluble, the other insoluble in alcohol.
All the leaves re-expanded after only two days; so that they were but little excited by this substance.
The concretions containing lime, which I have described at Ascension, as formed in a bed of ashes, present some degree of resemblance to this substance, but they have not a resinous fracture.
This substance is of a reddish- brown colour, with an almost metallic lustre; it is not magnetic, but becomes so after having been heated under the blowpipe, by which it is blackened and partly fused.
The surrounding ashes do not contain any carbonate of lime; hence the concretions have probably been formed, as is so often the case, by the aggregation of this substance.
As this substance is now being abundantly deposited by the surf at Ascension, it is possible that these masses may thus have originated; but if so, it must have been at a period when the land stood at a much lower level.
This substance is found in the bile, brain, nerves, blood, &c.
This substance, though harmless in itself, is frequently adulterated with red lead, so that the cheesemonger may very innocently introduce a poison, when he only intends to improve the colour of his goods.
This substance is much used as an imitation marble, as by polishing it with pumice stone, colouring it, and again polishing with oil, it may be made to resemble natural marble very closely.
This substance is found in, and is the vesicating principle of, the Spanish fly, Chinese blistering fly, and other coleopterous insects.
The colour of this substance is that of the pigment in the skin or hairs of the animal used.
An ice-cold solution of this substancekept at 0 deg.
This substance is of the consistence of the prepared sand used by brass-founders when hot, but acquires considerable solidity when cold.
This substance appears to have been imbedded extensively in the calcareous strata of the Mississippi valley; for it is scattered, as an ingredient, in its diluvions.
This substance is often observed in large orbicular or irregular masses, which have the appearance of external attrition.
This substance is here called blossom of lead, or mineral blossom.
There are two or three modifications of this substance, but they do not essentially differ from each other.
The kind termed gum arabic, so largely employed in the arts, is a very pure variety of this substance.
This substance constitutes a nutritious and easily digestible food, but alone cannot support life.
This substance, when cooked, contains a high proportion of water, the evaporation of which carries off a large amount of the heat generated by the combustion of its respiratory constituents.
Is this substance considered by naturalists as the habitation of the Insect?
This substance is very useful in many of the arts and manufactures.
The first thing was to make out precisely and clearly what was the nature of this substance, this apparently mere scum and mud that we call yeast.
If, by any art, this substance shall be dissolved in simple water, or made to crystallise from any solution, in that case, the assertion which has been here made may be denied.
Physalix and Bertrand isolated from it also a resinoid substance soluble in alcohol and in a large excess of water; this substance, which they named bufotaline, acts upon the heart.
The power of this substance is almost as great as that of the cobra poison, 0.
This substance, which is produced only in small quantity by the microbe, is fatal only in very large doses.
The application of this substance is made, in most cases, while the material is in a state of yarn.
The muriatic acid of this substance, uniting with the potash, forms with it muriate of potash, which dissolves in the water, while the soda combines with the tallow and rosin.
This substance is found in astringent vegetables, and is obtained, in a proper state for application, by infusion in water.
Kunkel published, in 1678, a treatise on phosphorus, in which he describes the properties of this substance, at that time a subject of great wonder and curiosity.
His experiments on phosphorus and on the method of extracting it from urine are valuable; they communicated the first accurate notions relative to this substance and to phosphoric acid.
This substance occurring in such abundance in the earth, and being indispensable as a seasoner of food, was known from the earliest ages.
This experiment proves what extreme caution is necessary in operating on this substance; for the quantity I used was scarcely as large as a grain of mustard seed.
This substance, associated with sulphur, pitch, and nitre, forms one of the most effective incendiaries of all military fire-works.
This substance is the detonating oil, composed, according to analysis, of chlorine, azote, and hydrogen.
The bituminous schistus, or bituminous shale, sometimes contains so much of this substance as to burn in the fire.
In a similar manner, by knowing the quantity of coal required to decompose a given quantity of nitrate of potassa, when melted in a crucible, the quantity of carbon in any variety of this substance may be ascertained.
All the weight of experiment and of actual observation tends to negative the view of the vegetable origin of this substance.
All stages in the growth of this substance may be observed.
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