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Excerpt from Manuals of Health: Water, Air, and Disinfectants
Water, its properties and composition water-supply a Necessity with all Communities - Water an Article of Sale - The Chemistry of Water illustrative of certain Elementary Principles of Chemistry - The Invariable Properties of Pure Water - The terms Pure and Impure Water generally a Dif ference of Degree - The Impurities of Water, Mineral and Organic -water a Necessity of active Vitality, and therefore a Food - The Sources of Water - The various Forms of Water, as Ice and Steam - Circulation Of Water from Ocean to Atmosphere - Its Descent as Rain - Its Accumulation in the Earth forming S pringa - Its Descent to the Sea as Streams and Rivers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
