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Familiar Talks on Science: Earth, Air and Water

by Elisha Gray

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Chapter I — World-Building and Life
  3. 3Chapter II — Limestone
  4. 4Chapter III — Coal
  5. 5Chapter IV — Slate and Shale
  6. 6Chapter V — Salt
  7. 7Air
  8. 8Chapter VII — Air Temperature
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Cloud-Formation — Evaporation
  10. 10Chapter IX — Cloud Formation — Continued
  11. 11Chapter X — Wind — Why It Blows
  12. 12Chapter XI — Wind — Continued
  13. 13Chapter XII — Local Winds
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Weather Predictions
  15. 15Chapter XIV — How Dew Is Formed
  16. 16Chapter XV — Hailstones and Snow
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Meteors
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Sky and Its Color
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Liquid Air
  20. 20Water
  21. 21Chapter XX — Tides
  22. 22Chapter XXI — What Is a Sponge?
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Water and Ice
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Stored Energy in Water
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Why Does Ice Float?
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Glaciers
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Evidences and Theories of an Ice Age
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Glacial and Preglacial Lakes and Rivers
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Some Effects of the Glacial Period
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Drainage Before the Ice Age
  31. 31Nature’s Miracles — Familiar Talks on Science

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