Marvels of Scientific Invention (Classic Reprint): An Interesting Account in Non Technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarines ... Discoveries of Science (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It will perhaps be interesting first of all to see what this terror-striking compound is. One essential feature is the harmless gas which constitutes the bulk of our atmosphere, nitrogen. Ordinarily one of the most lazy, inactive, inert of substances, this gas Will, under certain circumstances, enter into combination with others, and when it does SO it becomes in some cases the very reverse of its usual peaceful, lethargic self. It is as if it entered reluctantly into these compounds and so introduced an element of instability into them. It is like a dissatisfied partner in a business, ready to break up the whole combination on very Slight provocation.

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