"Crystallizing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... describing two interesting new compounds containing boron, phosphorus, and iodine. A few months ago M. Moissan succeeded in preparing the iodide of boron, a beautiful substance of the composition BI{3}, crystallizing from solution in carbon bisulphide in pearly tables, which melt at 43 deg. to a liquid which boils undecomposed at 210 deg.. When this substance is brought in contact with fused phosphorus an intense action occurs, the whole mass inflames with evolution of violet vapor of iodine. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various
... we should have presented Mr. Langdon before his daughter. On being called on for his journal, he said he was not 'such a confounded fool as to keep one for any portion of his life. He should as soon think of crystallizing soap-bubbles. He had dotted down a few memoranda in his memorandum book, as warnings to future travelers, and we were welcome to them; though he thought we were too mountain-mad to profit by them, if indeed any body ever profited by any body else's experience!' The fact ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... Croisic is in the Loire Inferieure, at the south-east corner of Brittany. It has now a good bathing establishment, and is much frequented by French people; but sardine-fishing and the crystallizing of sea-salt are still ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr |
