Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen 2Harper & Brothers, 1839 |
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... light , we do not create that heat or light , but decompose a substance which received it originally as a part of its composition ? Heat may be thus considered as originally in a fluid state ; but , attracted by organized bodies in ...
... light , we do not create that heat or light , but decompose a substance which received it originally as a part of its composition ? Heat may be thus considered as originally in a fluid state ; but , attracted by organized bodies in ...
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... light . This fluid may possibly be the same with that which , being attracted by , and entering into other more solid matter , dilutes the substance by separ- ating the constituent particles , and so rendering some solids fluid , and ...
... light . This fluid may possibly be the same with that which , being attracted by , and entering into other more solid matter , dilutes the substance by separ- ating the constituent particles , and so rendering some solids fluid , and ...
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... light and sound the electric spark and snap ; but in the great operations of nature the light is what we call lightning , and the sound ( pro- duced at the same time , though generally arriving later at our ears than the light does to ...
... light and sound the electric spark and snap ; but in the great operations of nature the light is what we call lightning , and the sound ( pro- duced at the same time , though generally arriving later at our ears than the light does to ...
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