Science and Life: Aberdeen AddressesJ. Murray, 1920 - 229 páginas This work is a collection of addresses and articles written at Aberdeen University regarding the interaction between science and society. |
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... process of the evolution of the elements was still in progress before their eyes . There is a certain quality of permanence about experimental scientific discovery which is not always believed . An important addition to experimental ...
... process of the evolution of the elements was still in progress before their eyes . There is a certain quality of permanence about experimental scientific discovery which is not always believed . An important addition to experimental ...
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... process together into such a closed cycle still involves the assumption of events that remain unknown and a reversal of the known continuous direction of energy transformations . Such a reversal may well occur under conditions still ...
... process together into such a closed cycle still involves the assumption of events that remain unknown and a reversal of the known continuous direction of energy transformations . Such a reversal may well occur under conditions still ...
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... virtue of energy that comes to us from the sun in the form of radiation , that is , light and heat . In the processes of agriculture this radiant energy is THE SOURCE OF ENERGY 27 converted into the potential energy 26 PHYSICAL FORCE.
... virtue of energy that comes to us from the sun in the form of radiation , that is , light and heat . In the processes of agriculture this radiant energy is THE SOURCE OF ENERGY 27 converted into the potential energy 26 PHYSICAL FORCE.
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... processes of nature , sunshine and fire , storm and lightning and tempest , the battling of the elements , the rushing tumult of man and his machinery , the majestic circling of the moon and planets ; stranger still , the silent ...
... processes of nature , sunshine and fire , storm and lightning and tempest , the battling of the elements , the rushing tumult of man and his machinery , the majestic circling of the moon and planets ; stranger still , the silent ...
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... processes - technically referred to as the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen - had to be perfected and put into practice in the especial form necessary for her war needs , before she had any chance of success , for on these new processes ...
... processes - technically referred to as the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen - had to be perfected and put into practice in the especial form necessary for her war needs , before she had any chance of success , for on these new processes ...
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