An Introduction to Biophysics, by David Burns ...J. & A. Churchill, 1929 - 580 Seiten |
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absorbed acid action adsorbed adsorption alkali alterations amount animal arterial axis basilar membrane blood body bone c.c. of water calcium Calories capillary carbon-dioxide cause cell cent Chap chemical Chemistry chloride clot CO₂ collodion colloidal colour constant corpuscles crystalloids cubic centimetres decrease dialysing diffusion dilute dispersed dissociation drop effect elastic electrical electrodes electrolytes emulsion energy enzyme equilibrium experiment factors fibres fluid force gelatin glass glucose gram haemoglobin heat hydrophilic increase isoelectric point lactic acid layer lens light liquid lungs mechanism membrane mercury metres minutes molecules movement muscle muscular negative nerve normal organism osmotic pressure oxygen particles pass physical physiological plasma polarisation position Postage gd potassium potential produced protein protoplasm rays reaction retina salts soap sodium sodium chloride solution stimulation substance surface tension suspensoids TABLE temperature tion tissues tube velocity ventricle vibrations viscosity volume دو
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Seite 455 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Seite 155 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony. This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass...
Seite 37 - Avogadro's law states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules...
Seite 440 - The scientists of his day held that heat is an imponderable fluid, caloric, which flows from a body at a higher temperature to one at a lower, much as water flows from a place of higher to a place of lower level.
Seite v - Fund is under the direction of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is governed by representatives of many medical and scientific institutions.
Seite 128 - When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, it is refracted so that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocities in the two media.
Seite 247 - The sensation of hunger is difficult to describe, but almost everyone from childhood has felt at times that dull ache or gnawing pain referred to the lower mid-chest region and the epigastrium, which may take imperious control of human actions. As Sternberg has pointed out, hunger may be sufficiently insistent to force the taking of food which is so distasteful that it not only fails to rouse appetite, but may even produce nausea.