"Mercury doesn't contribute its valence electrons readily to the [electron] soup. The thinner soup can't bind the merc…"

"While Paracelsus was pressing his doctrines on all sides, and endeavouring to lead chemistry into a new channel, anot…"

"Iron yields to certain degrees of beatings or repeated pressure; its impenetrable molecules, purified by man and made…"

"A neutral salt, which is composed of an acid and alkali, does not possess the acrimony of either of its constituent p…"

"One worker on one of the supports... either manually or with a trowel distributes the mortar over the chicken wire...…"

"The export of into Italy was strictly forbidden; but aluminium was almost the only metal that Italy produced in quant…"

"The Franklin sold at £4. 6s, each at the furnace, and at Philadelphia £18 per ton, the price varying with the metal."

"The art of tempering and iron developed in India long before its known appearance in Europe; , for example, erected a…"

"[T]here are not really 2-dimensional metals because conventional metals, for physics reasons... don't really like to …"

"The whole work was done under conditions of great mental excitement. His cousin ,.. his assistant, relates that when …"