| Show what a man Is 1 blade of according to 10 lo la 11 man ma n from a chemical point of view is composed of thirteen elements of which five are gases eases and eight solids if we consider the chemical composition of a man of the average of pounds w wo e find that ho be is largely composed of oxygen ox yeen which Is in a state of rss compression in fact a man wel weighing Lhing pounds has bus ninety seven pounds of compressed compres bed bad oxygen in his makeup the volume of this at an ordinary temperature if freed would exceed cubic feet the weight of th tho hydrogen is only fifteen pounds pound but were this in a free stat at a temperature of seventy eight degrees degree it would occupy a space equal to 2800 cubic feet the other throe three gases are nitrogen nearly four pounds chlorine about twenty six ounces and florane floi flor ine lne three and one halt half ounces of the solids carbon stands s at the head of the metalloids there being about thirty one pounds next comes phosphorus ru twenty six ounces and sul sulphur hur three ounces ane mos most abundant metal is ia cul clum more than three pounds next potassium two ounces common salt two ounces and iron one ounce the various combinations which the chemist can form of these metals and metalloids are almost innumerably philadelphia press |
