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An Inquiry Into the Changes Induced on Atmospheric Air by the Germination of Seeds, the Vegetation of Plants, and the Respiration of Animals

An Inquiry Into the Changes Induced on Atmospheric Air by the Germination of Seeds, the Vegetation of Plants, and the Respiration of Animals


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807. Excerpt: ... CHAP. IV. OF THE CHANGES INDUCED ON THE AIR BY THE RESPIRATION OF BIRDS, OF QUADRUPEDS, AND OF MAN. SECTION I. 79.-N Ot only, as we have seen, is water necessary to prepare the organization of vegetables, and of the inferior animals, for exhibiting living action, but it is required also by those which belong to the superior orders. "The whole material world," says Mr Hunter, "has been very properly divided into solids and fluids, these being the only essentially different states of matter which we are able to observe. From one of these states into the other, matter appears to be continually passing; but no species of matter can assume a solid form without having first been in a fluid state; neither can any change take place in a solid, till it be first reduced to, or suspended in, a fluid. The living animal body is obedient to these general laws; for all the solid matter of animals has been once in a' fluid state, and, having passed into the solid form, becomes a recipient for other fluids, out of which the solids themselves may, in turn, be increased and renovated ." 80. This conversion of fluid into solid matter, cannot, however, go on in the animal body without the constant presence of heat, the agency of which is essentially necessary to carry forward these transformations. When, to a certain degree, heat is abstracted from the body, its vital functions gradually decline, and at length finally cease. Many animals experience these effects periodically, without injury to the vital organs, and the actions of life re-appear as the temperature of the season returns. In our own climate, the hedge-hog, the bat, the dormouse, and several birds, pass into a state of torpidity during the winter season; and, in the more northern parts of Europe and America, the ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150428845
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 54
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150428848
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 113 gr


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