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• They are most strongly attracted by such of these atoms as are destitute of air, and therefore join with them without producing an effervescence; or, if they expel a small quantity of air from some of the salt, this air is at the same time absorbed by such of the contiguous particles as are destitute of it, and no effervescence appears until that part of the alkali, which was in a caustic form or destitute of air, be nearly saturated with the sedative salt. —  Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances
• In those Arcadian days, fighting in the air was a development for the future, and these two pilots exchanged greetings not cordially, perhaps, but courteously: a wave of the hand as much as to say, "We are enemies, but we need not forget the civilities." —  High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
• Now the air is again filled with the sounds of moving machinery, but it is the busy hum of peaceful occupations which assist to clothe the world from the white cotton fields of Georgia. —  History of the Confederate Powder Works
• The peculiar sound that filled the air was the hum of the interrupter; the bulb was, of course, a Crookes tube, and the red spot inside it, the glowing red-hot disc of the anti-cathode. —  The Eye of Osiris
• In that little bower the air was almost stifling, laden with the perfume of many flowers. —  Under the Rose

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