"Boracic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suffering from the intensely brilliant reflection of the rays of a tropical sun." These saline incrustations, or salinas, as they are generally called, are chiefly composed of salts of lime, soda, magnesia, alumina, and of boracic acid. Their composition would lead one to attribute their origin to the evaporation of salt water; for, with the single exception of boracic acid,[207] all the mineral substances are such as would be obtained ...
— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman
... of the Phlegraean fields already mentioned. In general character they resemble those previously described. The chief localities are certain lakes, near Volterra in Tuscany, which give forth very hot sulphurous and boracic acid vapours; a small sulphureous lake near Viterbo continually giving forth bubbles of gas; the Lake of Vico between Viterbo and Rome; the mountain and Lake of Albano near Rome; Mount Vultur in the Apennines, ...
— Wonders of Creation • Anonymous |
