I generally have
chemicals about, and occasionally do experiments.
It was hot and stifling work, but at last I reached a point where the fire lit up the corridor sufficiently for me to see that no soldier of Helium lay between me and the conflagration--what was in it or upon the far side I could not know, nor could any man have passed through that seething hell of
chemicals and lived to learn.
The grease and
chemicals that are poured into it undergo all sorts of strange transformations, which are the cause of its name; it is constantly in motion, as if huge fish were feeding in it, or great leviathans disporting themselves in its depths.
As he opened the hall door the vile smell of
chemicals which had spoilt his breakfast met him with a redoubled virulence.
The Baron's furnaces and retorts, and other things, were all there to speak for themselves, together with some packages of
chemicals, having the name and address of the person who had supplied them plainly visible on their labels.
The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather
chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination of the block at the bottom of the garden.
The rest depended on myself, on luck, time, human credulity, and a smattering of
chemical knowledge which I had acquired in the days of my medical studies.
Since the battle of Borodino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the
chemical elements of dissolution.
The best years of my life have been passed in the ardent study of medical and
chemical science.
In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any
chemical one.
And still there arose in me no desire for alcohol, no
chemical demand.
Would he obtain air by
chemical means, in getting by heat the oxygen contained in chlorate of potash, and in absorbing carbonic acid by caustic potash?