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Excerpt from Water, Its Impurities, Gathered From the Air and Earth: The Organisms That Grow in It, and the Modern Methods of Purification
It contains also traces of nitric acid, ammonia, and carbureted hydrogen. The union of two parts of hydrogen and one of oxygen makes water. When ever the conditions are favorable for this union, water must be the result. We breathe hydrogen and oxy gen, we eat nitrogen and carbon; there results water and such other components of the body as can result from the union of H. N. O. With S. Po. C. These latter are derived from the disintegration of the foods we eat. Two clouds meet in the heavens, one charged with hydrogen, the other with oxygen. The rapid union of the H. And O. Causing friction of molecules makes the electric ?ash. The condensa tion of gases creates a vacuum and the surrounding air rushing in gives the thunder. The result of the union of hz-i - O gives the drops (molecules) of rain. These drops falling to the earth catch the germs ?oat ing in the atmosphere and carry them into the soil.
Does the percolation through the strata rob them of 71956 germs, and from whence are they derived? Istheir birth of air, or earth, or water? Are those ?oat ing in the atmosphere but dried particles, preserving the potentialities of life, taken up from the earth, to be returned to it in some far off place? Are they the product of water alone, as taught in Egyptian schools, or are they the product of the combination of all, the result of natural law?
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