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Klappentext Originally published in 1917, this book gathers together a selection of the papers of Scottish chemist and oceanographer John Young Buchanan. Zusammenfassung John Young Buchanan (1844–1925) was a Scottish chemist and oceanographer who worked extensively on the chemistry of marine environments. Originally published in 1917, this book gathers together a selection of Buchanan's papers on a broad variety of topics. Numerous illustrative figures are also included and the contents listing contains extensive notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Geography. In its physical and economical relations; 2. A retrospect of oceanography in the twenty years before 1895; 3. On similarities in the physical geography of the great oceans; 4. Relation between the temperature of the sea and that of the air above it; 5. The colour of the sea; 6. The occurrence of sulphur in marine muds and nodules, and its bearing on their mode of formation; 7. Note on the manganese nodules found on the bed of the ocean; 8. Manganese nodules in Loch Fyne; 9. On the composition of oceanic and littoral nodules; 10. On a method of determining the specific gravity of soluble salts by displacement in their own mother-liquor; and its application in the case of the alkaline halides; 11. The Mediterranean sea; 12. On the composition of some deep-sea deposits from the Mediterranean; 13. On the oxidation of ferrous salts; 14. The sunsets of autumn, 1883. Observed at sea in the cable-ship Dacia; 15. Sue la densité et l'alcalinité des eaux de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée; 16. Monaco a whaling station; 17. The cruise of the Princesse Alice; 18. The sperm whale and its food; 19. The oceanographical museum at Monaco; 20. Lakes; 21. On the distribution of temperature in Loch Lomond during the autumn of 1885; 22. The windings of rivers; 23. Volcanoes and earthquakes; 24. On a remarkable effect produced by the momentary relief of great pressure; 25. Preliminary note on the compressibility of glass; 26. On the compressibility of solids; 27. On an apparatus for gas-analysis; 28. Her Majesty's Ship Sultan; 29. Air tight subdivisions in ships; 30. The Northallerton accident, 1894; 31. The wreck of Santos Dumont No. 6 at Monaco, 14 February, 1902; 32. The daintiness of the rat; 33. Fish and drought....
