Practical Meteorology, Vol. 1 of 10: Being a Guide to the Phenomena of the Atmosphere, and the Practical for Registering and Recording Atmospheric ... Atmospheric Changes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Scoffern, J. B.

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ISBN 10: 1332239846 ISBN 13: 9781332239849

Verlag: LULU PR, 2018

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Excerpt from Practical Meteorology, Vol. 1 of 10: Being a Guide to the Phenomena of the Atmosphere, and the Practical for Registering and Recording Atmospheric Changes

The change of common oxygen into ozone, furnishes an illustration of one of the most remarkable discoveries of modern science. It displays what is, perhaps, the most extraordinary example of the condition of allotropism, or the existence of one body under two different aspects; it promises to render evident some of these occult atmospheric causes which determine the progress of epidemics, and promote the existence of endemic diseases.

A summary of our know ledge relative to ozone may be briefly stated as follows z - Oxy gen gas is susceptible of undergoing a change, the nature of which 1s altogether veiled In mystery. It Is susceptible of becoming odorous corrosive, and irritating when breathed, its chemical action is susceptible of being exalted and modified, so that whilst ordinary oxygen gas neither bleaches nor corrodes silver, nor decomposes iodide of potassium, the allotropic, or second form of oxygen gas, will accomplish all these results, and many more too numerous for mention here. The general conclusion to which it is de sired to bring the reader is this if causes can be proved to exist capable of changing atmospheric oxygen gas in its ordinary state to oxygen gas in its extraordinary State, how vast, how complicated must be the meteoric results determined thereby! That such natural causes do exist will be readily inferred from a consideration of the artificial methods to which the chemist has recourse for changing ordinary oxygen into ozone.

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• Verlag: LULU PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1332239846
• ISBN 13: 9781332239849
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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