On the Cause and Nature of the Chemical Changes occurring in Oceanic Deposits

1897 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
W. N. Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Ammonium Sulphate ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Magnesium Carbonate ◽  
Chemical Examination ◽  
Chemical Changes ◽  
Sulphuretted Hydrogen

In Nature of January 24, 1895, appears an abstract of a paper read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh on March 7, 1892, by Dr John Murray and Mr Robert Irvine, and published in the Transactions of the Society, vol. xxxvii. part 2, No. 23, entitled “Chemical Changes between Sea-water and Oceanic Deposits.”This is an account of a chemical examination of the sea-water salts in the water adhering to or retained in mud, with special reference to the formation of the deposit known as “Blue Mud.”Dittmar's analysis of sea-water is quoted and compared with an analysis of mud-water. The chief points of difference between the two is the occurrence in mud-water salts of 0·206 per cent. of ammonium sulphate, 0·729 per cent. of magnesium carbonate, and 0·18 per cent. of manganous carbonate; also that the total salts are low in proportion to the chlorine they contain.The occurrence of ammonium sulphate in this mud, and also of manganous carbonate, are facts of much interest; but there are some equations given to explain the chemical changes which the mud undergoes which are not strictly in accordance with facts. There are three points which I would desire to draw attention to: first, the reduction of the sulphates; second, the oxidation of sulphuretted hydrogen; and third, the formation of manganous carbonate.The equations are written without reference to the part played by water in the chemical changes involved, but it may have been thought that the accuracy sacrificed was compensated by the simpler form of the equations.

scholarly journals XV. Further researches on the preservation of metals by electro­chemical means

1825 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 328-346 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Chemical Changes

In two papers read before the Royal Society, I have described the effects of small quantities of electro-positive metals in preventing the corrosion or chemical changes of copper exposed to sea water, and I have stated that the results appear to be of the same kind, whether the experiments are made upon a minute scale, and in confined portions of water, or on large masses, and in the ocean. The first and preliminary experiments proved, that the copper sheeting of ships might be preserved by this method; but another and a no less important circumstance was to be attended to, how far the cleanness of the bottom, or its freedom from the adhesion of weeds or shell fish, would be influenced by this preservation.

Potability of sea water with special reference to the cat

1959 ◽  
Vol 196 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Wolf ◽  
Phoebe G. Prentiss ◽  
Lillian G. Douglas ◽  
Russell J. Swett
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Experimental Verification ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Caloric Intake ◽  
Water Drinking ◽  
Ad Libitum

Under certain conditions in which food provides an adequate caloric intake but too little water to sustain a cat or a rat in euhydration, these animals can be shown to depend for survival on their intake of sea water. They will generally drink enough sea water ad libitum to thrive, even overcoming thereby a previously induced water deficit; or, they will readily eat their food, mixed with sea water in amounts which can vary widely, with similar benefit. Without sea water they undergo progressive hydropenia and die. Along with experimental verification of the potability of sea water a theory of sea water drinking (mariposia) is presented, based upon the concept of urinary osmotic space.

scholarly journals The Examination of Sea Water by an Optical Method

1902 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
J. J. Manley
Keyword(s):  
Optical Method ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Refractive Indices ◽  
Two Samples

In a paper communicated to the Royal Society, Mr E. T. Günther and the author gave an account of the results obtained from the examination of two samples of water taken from Lake Urmi, and amongst other determinations of a chemical and physical nature, were those of the refractive indices, which were performed with the aid of the Royal Society's large quartz prism and spectrometer, the latter reading by means of micrometers to 2″ of arc. On comparing the values obtained for the refractive indices of the two samples of water with those obtained for the relative densities, it was at once apparent that the former differentiated the two samples quite as distinctly as the latter.

The Organic Metabolism of Sea-water with Special Reference to the Ultimate Food Cycle in the Sea

1935 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ancel Keys ◽  
E. H. Christensen ◽  
August Krogh
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Oxygen Content ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Raw Water

Studies are reported of the behaviour of stored sea-water with regard to oxygen, ammonia, and bacteria content in relation to the conditions of storage and to the effect of various filtration procedures.When sea-water is sterilised by filtration and stored in the dark, the oxygen content remains constant or diminishes only by less than 0·07c.c. per litre in several hundred hours.In non-sterile experiments there is always an oxygen consumption roughly parallel to a bacterial multiplication which begins very suddenly after collection of the water. These effects are greatest in “raw” water, less in paper-filtered water and least in water which is doubly filtered.

scholarly journals On some Factors Limiting the Habitat of Arenicola marina

1929 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Carbonate ◽  
Ferric Oxide ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Amorphous State ◽  
Magnesium Carbonate ◽  
Arenicola Marina ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Clay Kaolin

SUMMARYIn the foregoing work it was found that: Arenicola marina was repelled and could not burrow in sand containing 20% of ferric oxide in the amorphous state.That 0·021% ferric oxide in suspension in sea-water was lethal owing to its forming with the mucus of the organism an envelope which prevented contact with the surrounding air-carrying water.That calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, Stourbridge clay, kaolin, and kieselguhr had the same effect as the ferric oxide in suspension.That although able to live for a short time in water of salinity 3·10%‰, Arenicola marina tended to become so turgid in water of 14·32%‰ as to be unable to burrow.

XXXIII. Some experiments and researches on the saline contents of sea-water, undertaken with a view to correct and improve its chemical analysis

1822 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 448-456 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Sufficient Accuracy ◽  
Sea Salt ◽  
The Earth

In a paper on the temperature and saltness of various seas, which the Royal Society did me the honour to publish in their Transactions for the year 1819, I threw out a conjecture, that the sea might contain minute quantities of every substance in nature, which is soluble in water. For the ocean having communication with every part of the earth through the rivers, all of which ultimately pour their waters into it; and soluble substances, even such as are theoretically incom­patible with each other, being almost in every instance capable of co-existing in solution, provided the quantities be very minute, I could see no reason why the ocean should not be a general receptacle of all bodies which can be held in solution. And although it will appear from the following account, that I have been unsuccessful in some of my attempts to prove the truth of this conjecture, it may fairly be ascribed either to a want of sufficient accuracy in our present methods of chemical analysis, or of the requisite degree of skill in the operator. Some time after the communication to which I have just referred, an extraordinary statement was pointed out to me, upon the authority of Rouelle, a French chemist of the last century, from which it appeared that mercury was contained in sea salt: and I saw soon after in the ‘ Annales du Musée ,' Vol. VII. a paper by the celebrated chemist Proust, who, in a great measure, confirmed that statement, by announcing that he had found traces of mercury in all the specimens of marine acid which he had examined.

scholarly journals IV. On the composition of sea-water in the different parts of the ocean

1865 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 203-262 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Water ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Chemical Examination ◽  
Different Depths ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Different Parts

In the year 1843 a friend of mine, Mr. Ennis of Falmouth, sent me some bottles of seawater from the Mediterranean, which I subjected to a chemical examination, a work which induced me to collect what other chemists had determined about the constitution of the water of the great Ocean. This labour convinced me that our knowledge of, the composition of sea-water was very deficient, and that we knew very little about the differences in composition which occur in different parts of the sea. I entered into this labour more as a geologist than as a chemist, wishing, principally to find facts which could serve as a basis for the explanation of those effects, that have taken place at the formation of those voluminous beds which once were deposited at the bottom of the ocean. I thought that it was absolutely necessary to know with precision the composition of the water of the present ocean, in order to form an opinion about the action of that ocean from which the mountain limestone, the oolite and the chalk with its flint have been deposited, in the same way as it has been of the most material influence upon science to know the chemical actions of the present volcanos, in order to determine the causes which have acted in forming the older plutonic and many of the metamorphic rocks. Thus I determined to undertake a series of investigations upon the composition of the water of the ocean, and of its large inlets and bays, and ever since that time I have assiduously collected and analyzed water from the different parts of the sea. It is evident that it was impossible to collect this material in a short time, and without the assistance of many friends of science, and I most gratefully acknowledge how much I am indebted to many distinguished officers of the Danish and British Navy, as well as to many private men, who were all willing to undertake the trouble carefully to collect samples of sea-water from different parts of the ocean, both from the surface and from different depths. I shall afterwards, when giving the particular analyses, find an opportunity to mention the name of each of those to whom I am indebted for my material.

Air Travel with Special Reference to the Helicopter

1923 ◽  
Vol 27 (151) ◽  
pp. 322-337
Author(s):  
F. M. Green
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Air Travel

Meeting of the Society was held at the Royal Society of Arts on Thursday, March ist, 1923, Professor L. Bairstow, C.B.E., F.R.S., in the chair. The Chairman, in calling upon Major F. M. Green to read his paper on “ Air Travel, with Special Reference to the Helicopter,” said that many of those present would be able to> agree with the very critical review of the problem given by the lecturer, and it would be an advantage perhaps to the progress of aviation if the Society gave a technical opinion as to the value of the helicopter as a means of air travel.

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