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		<title>CARBON AND ORGANIC MATTERS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carbon atomic weight, 12 meltingpoint, above 3,600 degrees C.is well known in the three forms of the diamond, graphite, and charcoal. It is also found widely distributed in nature, not only as a constituent of animal and vegetable tissues, and in the air ,n the form of carbon dioxide 2, but also in combination as [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS</title>
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		<title>EXPLOSIVES</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explosives are substances which, under the influence of heat or shock, or both, are instantly resolved into gases occupying at the high temperature of explosion comparatively enormous volumes, and consequently exert ing tremendous pressure, which disrupts the objective or drives projectiles out of guns. They may be said to consist of bodies such as nitroglycerine [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>AIR</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The air is a mixture of gases. Many years ago it was found that animals which were confined in a limited amount of air died after a short time. Later, it was ascertained that, in breathing, animals do not consume all of the air which is inspired, but only a part of it, and that [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>WAXES</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many waxes of mineral, animal, and vegetable origin, of which the bestknown variety is Beeswax, produced by bees from the sugar of their iood. It is somewhat yellow, tough and solid, and can be bleached by chlorine It is of complex composition, and contains several different substances including myricm one of the normal [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>ALCOHOLS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ordinary Alcohol Ethyl Alcohol is only one of a series of homologous alcohols of ascending specific gravities and boilingpoints, the lower members being colourless mobile liquids, the middle ones of more oily character, and the higher ones solid, like paraffin in appearance and without taste or odour. Some are found in nature in combination with [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>SULPHONATION</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The treatment of organic bodies with sulphuric acid whereby sulphonic acids are produced, the products containing the group SOa,OH. 1 hus benzene, treated with fuming sulphuric acid, yields benzene sulphonic acid: SULPHUR Atomic weight, 32. Large quantities of sulphur are found naturally in Japan, Spain, and the United States of America, also in volcanic districts, [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>CHLORINE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[and its compoundsAtomic weight, 355; sp. gr., 249; meltingpoint, 1015 degrees C. Chlorine is not found in nature in an uncombined state, but exists very extensively in combination with other substances, and most abundantiy in the form of common saltsodium chloride. There are large deposits of salt in Cheshire, and it forms part of the [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>COAL</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[is supposed to be the residual product of the natural decomposition of forests and other vegetable matters during enormous periods of time, and is a very complex mixture of carbon compounds, containing generally some proportion of nitrogen. It is an indefinite and variable mixture of compounds insoluble in pyridine, cellulosic compounds soluble in pyridine but [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>MOLECULES AND MOLECULAR WEIGHTS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term molecules in a chemical sense, means the smallest quantities of substances capable of existing in the free state, as contrasted with atoms, which are regarded as constituents of molecules and the smallest parts of matter which can participate in any chemical change. For instance, a molecule of sodium chloride is a c ombination [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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