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These Dust-heaps are a wonderful compound of things. A banker's cheque for a considerable sum was found in one of them. It was on Merries & Farquhar, in 1847. But bankers' cheques, or gold and silver articles, are the least valuable of their ingredients. Among other things, a variety of useful chemicals are extracted. Their chief value, however, is for the making of bricks.

For he was of service in suggesting new ways of combining fire-fighting chemicals, gained by his association with the fireworks concern. "And that's about all the benefit I derived from being with those scoundrels, Field and Melling," said Mr. Baxter gloomily. "You still think they took your dye formulae?" asked Tom. "I'm positive of it, but I can't prove anything.

Always manage to have something on hand when you ain't busy with the folks, doctor. It must be interestin' to fool with these here chemicals. DR. JONATHAN. It keeps me out of mischief. HILLMAN. I guess you haven't much time to get into mischief. FERSEN. We don't like to bother you. DR. JONATHAN. No bother, Fersen, sit down.

But we know that the substance of a brain-cell is the wonderful physical basis of life called protoplasm, that demanded our attention at the outset. The chemicals that go to make up protoplasm are everywhere carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and other substances that are exactly the same outside the body as inside.

This was afterward replaced by powdered silver chloride, chemically pure, which was found to be much more sensitive than that made from the commercial chemicals. This powder is spread out in a thin layer, in a long paper cell, on a strip of glass. The cell measures one centimeter broad by ten in length.

He took the laboratory proofs on faith, and his intense power of vision enabled him to see the reactions of chemicals more understandingly than the average student saw them in the laboratory. Martin wandered on through the heavy pages, overwhelmed by the clews he was getting to the nature of things.

Eminent physicians ridicule the claim of the brewers that beer, even assuming that it were pure and unadulterated and entirely free from poisonous drugs and chemicals is a beverage of high food value and ranks with milk as a blood producer.

"He forgets that all these chemical methods require pure chemicals. And you don't find them pure in the natural state. You've got to have fire to reduce them with." "What's your proposition, then?" from the doctor. "Optics!" enthusiastically. She produced a large magnifying-glass from her pocket.

There was one who came from the North, brawny and riotous with energy, a man of concentrated power, who held all the thunderbolts of modern capital in his great fists and made flour and meat, iron and steel, cunning chemicals, wood, paint and paper, transforming to endless tools a disemboweled earth.

And it's a lot worse than you 're liable to get in a minute." He turned to the furnace and took out the pottery dish in which the sample had been smelting, white-hot now. He cooled it and tinkered with his chemicals. He fussed with his scales, he adjusted his glasses, he coughed once or twice in an embarrassed manner; finally to turn to Fairchild.