Word: hydrogen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prof. Trowbridge said, is divided into two equal parts, one for elementary work and the other for special research. The large lecture-room, intended for general elementary lectures, is fitted up with the best modern appliances, with running water, with high-pressure hot water, with electric currents, with oxygen-hydrogen lamps, etc. The room above is the elementary; etc. The room above is the elementary; it is sixty feet by sixty feet, the largest of its kind, and is used by one hundred and thirty students. The excellent work done in this laboratory is exerting a great influnce over...
...Erasmus Wilson thinks the hairs act partly as excretory organs, separating from the system a quantity of carbon and hydrogen, which enter into their composition. The instrument used in testing the sensibility of the skin is called an Aesthesiometer. The degree of sensibility is measured by the distance between the points at which they can be recognized as two. The following, in millimeters, are the three shortest distances at which the two points can be distinguished: Tip of tongue, 1.1; third phalanx of finger, palmar surface, 2.3; red part of lips...
Starch is a compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, each of them an essential constituent of the body. All food should be well masticated, and the proportion of vegetable and animal foods eaten carefully considered. When a portion of food, or drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce...
...Sargent began his lecture yesterday by stating that the principal elements that sustain life are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, and that various kinds of food possessed these qualities in different degrees. The world's greatest scientists have devoted themselves to classifying foods according to their chemical compounds and effects on the human body. But no table of nutritives can be accurate in its application, as the nervous and muscular tissues are not the same...
Prof. Please name some gases. Student. Oxygen and hydrogen. Prof. Any other kind of 'gen'? Student. Yes, sir, Holland gin. Fact. - Courant...