10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECILLIONTH»
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decillionth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Monthly journal of medical science
And when other grown-up men tell the world that they can cure this or that
disease with a billionth or decillionth of a grain of this or that common and
probably even inert drug, they express an opinion perhaps even more intensely
and directly ...
2
Homœopathy: Its Tenets and Tendencies, Theoretical, ...
When they speak of the decillionth of a grain, they seem little to reckon what a
decillionth amounts to. For it is a sum the mere figures of which can scarcely give
us any conception of its infinitesimal amount, (via,— 1.000,000,000,ooo,ooo,ooo
...
Sir James Young Simpson, 1854
3
The Retrospect of Medicine
By this time we shall have divided the original drop of the medicine, so that the
thirtieth dilution contains a decillionth part of it. This proceeding will not have
occupied an hour, and the quantity of alcohol consumed will have been about six
...
William Braithwaite, 1859
4
Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts
A " Decillionth." — Homceopathy. The new medical doctrine, designated
Homseopathy, appears to be spreading in England: at least.it is now a frequent
subject of conversation and inquiry. As taught and practised by its honest
professors, it is ...
5
Homœopathy, its tenets and tendencies
OF DECILLIONTH DOSES. 13 hundred millions of human beings. If all these nine
hundred millions of human beings had lived during the past six thousand years,
and each of them had swallowed, every moment of their existence, a decillionth ...
Sir James Young Simpson, 1853
6
The Magazine of Popular Science and Journal of the Useful Arts
A " Decillionth." — Homesopathy. The new medical doctrine, designated
HomsBopathy, appears to be spreading in England: at least.it is now a frequent
subject of conversation and inquiry. As taught and practised by its honest
professors, it is ...
7
Homœopathy and hydropathy impartially appreciated
Hahnemann also says, speaking of silex or flint : " This earth being reduced to a
millionth degree of attenuation, a grain of the powder is to be reduced to the
decillionth dilution. In fact, dilutions to the billionth or trillionth degree produce
effects ...
8
Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal
Little do they reckon what a decillionth is. Here is notation :— 1 .OOO.CWO.OW.
WW.OOO.TOO.OOO.CWO.OTO.O^ 000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Now, the
world contains nine hundred millions of human beings. If all these nine hundred
had ...
9
The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery
It would require, in fact, a mass of sea-sand millions of times greater than the
whole mass of the earth to reduce each particle of sand to a homoeopathic
decillionth. — Or, to state it otherwise, a decillion of particles of sea-sand would
make a ...
Daniel Drake, Theodore S. Bell, Lunsford Pitts Yandell, 1854
10
Proceedings of the American Institute of Homœopathy for: ...
... diseases, consists of a decillionth of a grain or a decillionth of a drop of a drug,
whatever dryg that may be which is employed. The human intellect, however, can
scarcely appreciate this quantity when expressed either in language or figures.
American Institute of Homeopathy, 1858
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECILLIONTH»
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decillionth is used in the context of the following news items.
Scientists may have solved mystery of matter's origin
... 1 decillionth of a second after the Big Bang. In this period, termed “inflation,” particles (the most basic ingredient of everything in the universe) ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»
SPIDER: Hunting for signals in universe's oldest light
... one decillionth of a second, and inflated from an infinitesimally small size to something large enough to fit perhaps in the palm of your hand. «Varsity, Jan 15»
Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey measures the universe to …
Extraordinary flatness means the universe experienced relatively prolonged inflation, up to a decillionth of a second or more, immediately after ... «Phys.Org, Jan 14»
'Virtual reality' photos bring the LHC to life
There seems to be nothing more terrifying to humanity than actually daring to use one's mind to actually think with for a decillionth of a ... «New Scientist, Aug 08»
