"Chemical formula" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... complexity must also be taken into account. I would recommend to the particular attention of chemists the molecule of water; the deportment of this substance towards radiant heat being perfectly anomalous, if the chemical formula at present ascribed to ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... complex chemical way. For example, the substance called haemoglobin is the protein which exists in the red blood cells and which causes those cells to appear light red or yellow when seen singly. Its chemical formula states the precise number of atoms which enter into the constitution of a single molecule as: C{600}H{960}N{154}FeO{179}. This is truly a marvelously complex substance when compared with the materials of the inorganic world, like water, for example, which has the formula ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton
... now is that some substances with the same chemical formula rotate polarized light to the right, are dextro- rotary, as, for instance, what is known as dextrose. Others rotate it to the left, are levo-rotary, as the substance called levose. Both of them are glucose. So there are substances which give the same chemical reactions ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve
... peddle hexameters in the wholesale district in Chicago. And I've seen boys who slid through the course just half a hair's breadth ahead of the Faculty boot, go out and do the bossing for a whole Congressional district in five years. They hadn't learned the exact chemical formula of the universe, but they had learned how to run the blamed thing from practicing on the ...
— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch
... poet's revelation, we have no better way of arriving at the truth. The scientist offers us little in this field; and his account of inspiration is as cold and comfortless as a chemical formula. Of course the scientist is amused by this objection to him, and asks, "What more do you expect from the effusions of poets? Will not whatever secret they reveal prove an open one? What will it profit ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins |
