"H2o" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there is water vapor, but it isn't H2O. It's HO. A molecular arrangement like that occurs in the upper Solar atmosphere, but nowhere on Earth. And there's a thin sprinkling of hydrocarbon molecules out there too. Hydrocarbon appears ordinarily as methane gas, but out there it rings ...
— The Sky Trap • Frank Belknap Long
... together with various other ingredients which have come from the materials furnishing the acid. In the manufacture of vinegar, alcohol is always used as the source of the acetic acid. The production of acetic acid from alcohol is a simple oxidation. The equation C2H6O O2 C2H4O2 H2O shows the chemical change that occurs. This oxidation can be brought about by purely chemical means. While alcohol will not readily unite with oxygen under common conditions, if the alcohol is allowed to pass over a bit of platinum sponge the union readily occurs and acetic acid results. ...
— The Story Of Germ Life • H. W. Conn
... be seen that the dehydration has never passed the composition corresponding to 2 CaSO4 H2O; indeed, the material approximates more nearly to the composition 3 CaSO4 H2O. It appears probable, therefore, that in the successful preparation of plaster the whole, or nearly the whole, of the gypsum is changed, but that this change does not result in the production of CaSO4, or of a mixture ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various |
