"Bromine" Quotes from Famous Books
... other facts so far ascertained point to the use by the German troops of chlorine or bromine for ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... gangrene broke out in my ward. In three days it attacked twenty persons. Then an inspector came, and we were transferred at once to the open air, and placed in tents. Strangely enough, the wound in my remaining arm, which still suppurated, was seized with gangrene. The usual remedy, bromine, was used locally, but the main artery opened, was tied, bled again and again, and at last, as a final resort, the remaining arm was amputated at the shoulder-joint. Against all chances I recovered, to find myself a useless torso, more like some strange ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Autobiography of a Quack And The Case Of George Dedlow • S. Weir Mitchell
... the idea wholly inadmissible for all domestic installations. Willgerodt suggested removing sulphuretted hydrogen by means of potassium hydroxide (caustic potash), then absorbing the phosphine in bromine water. For many reasons this process is only practicable in the laboratory. Berge and Reychler proposed extracting both sulphuretted hydrogen and phosphine in an acid solution of mercuric chloride (corrosive sublimate). The ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
... mixture of nitric and muriatic acid, dissolves gold. Chlorine and bromine attack it. It has been noticed to vaporize at a very high temperature. A gold thread vaporizes when a strong electric current is passed through it. A small ball of gold gives off a great deal of vapor if placed between two carbon points and subjected to the action of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher
... saturated carbides of the formula CnH{2n}, which the authors name paraffenes. At a bright red heat they yield benzinic carbides, CnH{2n-6}, naphthalin and a little anthracen. At dull redness the products are along with unaltered paraffenes, products which unite energetically with bromine, and which are converted into resinous polymers of ordinary sulphuric acid. It is difficult to isolate, by means of fractional distillation, definite products with constant ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various |