Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
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ISBN13: 9780217995665
Paperback|9780217995665
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ? ? HODGKENTS FUND. THE ATMOSPHERE IN RELATION TO HUMAN LIFE AND HEALTH. FRANCIS ALBERT ROLLO RUSSELL, Vice-Prsident of the Boyal Meteorological Society, Fellow of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, Member of the Royal InntUution of Great ritain. CITY OF WASHINGTON: PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. THE ATMOSPHERE IK RELATION TO HTJMAK LIFE AND HEALTH. By Fbancis Albert Rollo Russell, l Tbx-Pretident of the Soyal Meteorological Society, Fellow of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, Member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Memoir submitted in the Hodgkina Fund Prize competition of the Smithsonian Institution, and awarded honorable mention with a liver medaL] Pakt I.?Constitution And Conditions Op The Aie. The atmosphere has been compared to a great ocean, at the bottom of which we live. But the comparison gives no idea of the magnitude of this ocean, without definite bounds, and varying incessantly in density and other important qualities from depth to height and from place to place. Uninterrupted by emergent continents and islands, the atmosphere freely spreads high above all mountains and flows ever in mighty currents at levels beyond the most elevated regions of the solid earth. What is the composition of this encompassing fluid, and what its character? The work of the present century has gathered in a rich store of knowledge to answer the inquiry. The atmosphere consists in the main of two gases, oxygen and nitrogen, and these are intimately mixed in the proportion of about 20.9 of oxygen to 79.1 of nitrogen by volume, and 23.1 of oxygen to 76.9 of nitrogen by weight.2 These gases, which are each of them chemical elements, are not chemically combined with one another, but only mixed; each preserves ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217995665 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217995667 |
| Weight | 1.11 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $39.34 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 342 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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