The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers

Name: The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers
Author: Tyndall, John

Tyndall, John

Clouds; Glaciers; Ice; Rivers; Water

Changes of volume resulting from heat and cold, 118-122;
    illustrations of, 119, 120;
    consequences from, 122;
    opinions of Count Rumford, 12, 124.
  Chapeau, refreshment at, 41.
  Cleavage and glacier lamination, 187;
    analogy between, 188, 189;
    planes of, 188;
    observations of Prof. Sedgwick, 188;
    discovery by Daniel Sharp, 188;
    additional evidence of Mr. Sorby, 189;
    association of pressure and cleavage established, 189:
    relation of cause and effect, 189;
    artificial conditions of Nature combined, 189, 190.
  Clouds, their formation, 3-6;
    in tropical regions, 25;
    illustration of the formation of, 26.
  Col du Géant, snows and ice-cascade of the, 46, 47;
    snow-fall on the plateau of, 48, 49;
    cracks on, 179.
  Conclusion, 191, 192.
  Condensers needed, 154.
  Conditions necessary for the production of natural phenomena, 99.
  Conscience, scientific, 180.
  Crevasses, 41;
    work among the, 52;
    widening of, 54;
    drifting of bodies buried in, 57;
    birth of, 98;
    features of, 100;
    characteristic, 102;
    transverse, 103;
    stalactites of Alpine, 100;
    marginal, 105-107;
    longitudinal, 109;
    curvature of glacier related to number of, 110-112.
  Crystallization of metals, 29;
    of sugar, 30;
    of saltpetre, 30;
    of alum, 30;
    of chalk, 30;
    of carbon, 30;
    reversal of the process of, 36.

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  De Saussure's theory of glacier-motion, 156.
  Dilatation theory, 155, 156.
  Dirt-bands of Mer de Glace, observed by Prof. Forbes, 130;
    description and explanation of, 131, 132.
  Distillation, oceanic, 18; ordinary, 21.
  Dôme du Goûté, broken crags of, 50.
  Drifting of huts on ice, 59, 60.
  Dr. William Hopkins's conclusions regarding the obliquity of the
    lateral crevasses, 107.

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  Égralets, passage through the, 53.
  Electric light, dark waves of, 14.
  Equivalent points, comparison of velocities of, 75, 76, 107.
  Erratic blocks, 147-150.
  Evaporation, caused by the heat-rays of the sun, 13.
  Expansion of water, 121, 155.
  Experiments to show the heat-power of the dark rays, 14-19;
    illustrative, 22, 23, 25, 20;
    Dr. Franklin's experiment, 112.
  Extract from Bordier's book, 157, 162.

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  Faraday's theory regarding regelation, 171;
    special solidifying power exerted by substances upon their own
      molecules, 172, 173;
    opinion of Prof. James Thomson, 174, 175;
    experiments illustrating the subject, 174;
    quotation from Faraday, 175.
  Fog, its formation in ball-rooms, 5.
  Forces, of crystallization, 30;
    of gravitation, 30;
    of Nature, 31;
    attractive and repulsive, 127.
  Freezing mixture, 120, 168.

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The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers

Tyndall, John

Clouds; Glaciers; Ice; Rivers; Water

Changes of volume resulting from heat and cold, 118-122;
    illustrations of, 119, 120;
    consequences from, 122;
    opinions of Count Rumford, 12, 124.
  Chapeau, refreshment at, 41.
  Cleavage and glacier lamination, 187;
    analogy between, 188, 189;
    planes of, 188;
    observations of Prof. Sedgwick, 188;
    discovery by Daniel Sharp, 188;
    additional evidence of Mr. Sorby, 189;
    association of pressure and cleavage established, 189:
    relation of cause and effect, 189;
    artificial conditions of Nature combined, 189, 190.
  Clouds, their formation, 3-6;
    in tropical regions, 25;
    illustration of the formation of, 26.
  Col du Géant, snows and ice-cascade of the, 46, 47;
    snow-fall on the plateau of, 48, 49;
    cracks on, 179.
  Conclusion, 191, 192.
  Condensers needed, 154.
  Conditions necessary for the production of natural phenomena, 99.
  Conscience, scientific, 180.
  Crevasses, 41;
    work among the, 52;
    widening of, 54;
    drifting of bodies buried in, 57;
    birth of, 98;
    features of, 100;
    characteristic, 102;
    transverse, 103;
    stalactites of Alpine, 100;
    marginal, 105-107;
    longitudinal, 109;
    curvature of glacier related to number of, 110-112.
  Crystallization of metals, 29;
    of sugar, 30;
    of saltpetre, 30;
    of alum, 30;
    of chalk, 30;
    of carbon, 30;
    reversal of the process of, 36.

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  De Saussure's theory of glacier-motion, 156.
  Dilatation theory, 155, 156.
  Dirt-bands of Mer de Glace, observed by Prof. Forbes, 130;
    description and explanation of, 131, 132.
  Distillation, oceanic, 18; ordinary, 21.
  Dôme du Goûté, broken crags of, 50.
  Drifting of huts on ice, 59, 60.
  Dr. William Hopkins's conclusions regarding the obliquity of the
    lateral crevasses, 107.

  E

  Égralets, passage through the, 53.
  Electric light, dark waves of, 14.
  Equivalent points, comparison of velocities of, 75, 76, 107.
  Erratic blocks, 147-150.
  Evaporation, caused by the heat-rays of the sun, 13.
  Expansion of water, 121, 155.
  Experiments to show the heat-power of the dark rays, 14-19;
    illustrative, 22, 23, 25, 20;
    Dr. Franklin's experiment, 112.
  Extract from Bordier's book, 157, 162.

  F

  Faraday's theory regarding regelation, 171;
    special solidifying power exerted by substances upon their own
      molecules, 172, 173;
    opinion of Prof. James Thomson, 174, 175;
    experiments illustrating the subject, 174;
    quotation from Faraday, 175.
  Fog, its formation in ball-rooms, 5.
  Forces, of crystallization, 30;
    of gravitation, 30;
    of Nature, 31;
    attractive and repulsive, 127.
  Freezing mixture, 120, 168.

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