Our Young Folks An Illustrated Magazine for Boys And Girls volume 7
Our Young Folks An Illustrated Magazine for Boys And Girls volume 7
Hiram Hatchet
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Eighteen hundred quarts of the mixed gases form only about one quart of liquid water. The force thus quietly exerted in making the original gases combine and condense to a single gallon of water is great enough to lift a weight of more than forty millions of pounds to the height of one foot. And so it has been beautifully said by the famous Professor Tyndall, that the little Alpine girl who carries a snowball in her hand holds locked up within its flakes force enough to hurl back the hugest ava...lanche to twice the height from which it fell. For snow is nothing but water, you know, the particles of which, in freezing, have arranged themselves into new and beautiful forms. Magnified Snow-Flakes. 334 ^ D r P f Water. [June, Only think of it ! these tremendous forces are operating around us every- where, so quietly that we scarcely notice them. They are working in every flame ; they are exerted in every breath you draw, and in the gentle growth of the flowers they are called into action. The strength of a giant sleeps harmlessly in the dew-drop, and the tender rosebud upon which it rests is itself the product of forces more wonderful than those displayed in the earthquake or the tornado.
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