 | Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1811 - 388 pages
...thunder and lightning, is composed of six parts of nitre, one part of sulphur, and one part of charcoal. be dense, it will lie near the surface of the earth, where, taking fire, it will explode with a surprising force, and by its heat, rarefy and drive away the air, kill men and... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1819 - 380 pages
...thin and light, it will rise to the upper part of the atmosphere, where it will flash without doing any harm; but if it be dense, it will lie near the surface of the earth, where, taking fire, it will ex5lode with a surprising force, and by its heat rarefy and rive away the air, kill men and cattle,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 pages
...thin and light, it will rise to the upper part of the atmosphere, where it will flash without doing any harm ; but if it be dense, it will lie near the surface of the earth, where, taking fire, it will explode with surprising force, accompanied by terrible claps of thunder. The effects of thunder... | |
 | James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...thin and light, it will rise to the upper part of the atmosphere, where it will flash without doing any harm : but if it be dense, it will lie near the surface of the earth, where, taking fire, it will explode with a surprising force ; and by its heat rarefy and drive away the air, kill men and... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 556 pages
...thin and light, it will rise to the upper part of the atmosphere, where it will flash without doing any harm : but if it be dense, it will lie near the surface of the earth, where taking fire, it will explode with a surprising force ; and by its heat rarefy { and drive away the air, kill men and... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1851 - 146 pages
...rise to the upper part of the atmosphere, where it will flash without occasioning harm; but when it is dense it will lie near the surface of the earth, where, taking fire, it explodes with a force to so surprising a degree as to occasion a loss of life to objects within the medium of its immediate... | |
 | David Williams - English literature - 1858 - 388 pages
...storms of thunder and lightning, men and cattle are killed, and other considerable damnge done?—A. When the inflammable matter of which the electric...rarefying the air to so great a degree as to occasion a loss of life to objects within the medium of its immediate action, or to do other considerable damage.... | |
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If the inflammable matter be thin and light, it will rise to the upper part of the atmosphere, where it will flash without doing any harm : but if it be dense, it will lie near the surface of the earth, where, taking fire, it will explode with... 