Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 115: what you’re looking at

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98 FLUID SUBSTRATUM. {cH. VII. crystalline state before any rain could fall from the atmosphere, because precipitation of water could not take place until the temperature had decreased to about 773° F., and before that the water substance must have lost the greater part of its solvent power on the earthy salts. The sea salts would have remained in solution in the primitive ocean after the silicates had crystallized out, and they would still continue to form a constituent part also of the hot magma supposed to exist beneath the solid crust in a state of igneo-aqueous solution. This magma is probably of the nature of an elastic liquid, for, “above the critical temperature for the substance no amount of pressure will produce the phenomenon which we call con- densation',” ! Maxwell's “Heat,” 2nd ed. p. 119. COnmicloOOlkKS. GO