Garter Snake
in zoölogy, the snake genus Eutania. There are two species, E. sirtalis and E. ordinata, the latter in the Southern States, the other more widely diffused over the Union. Their bite is not venomous.
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Single-source entries: G (16)
These 8 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Garter Snake, Garvin, Gary.
Garvin
JAMES LOUIS, an English editor. He was born in Ireland in 1868, and was brought at an early age to England, where he was educated in Catholic elementary schools, in which later, in Liverpool and Hull, he was a pupil teacher. Removing to Newcastle, he became first a reporter and later a leader writer on the Newcastle "Chronicle," from which in 1899 he went to join the political staff of the London "Daily Telegraph." In 1905 he became editor of "The Outlook," and in 1908 of "The Observer," writing also, 1912-1915, for the "Pall Mall Gazette." He was originally a strong Parnellite, but on joining "Daily Telegraph" became a Tory Imperialist. Has contributed much to the reviews. Publications: "Imperial Reciprocity"; "Tariff or Budget"; "Economic Foundations of Peace."
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Gary
ELBERT HENRY, an American lawyer and capitalist, born near Wheaton, Ill. He was educated in the public schools and Wheaton College, and at the University of Chicago. After studying law at the latter institution, he He was admitted to the bar in 1867. was engaged in the general practice of law in Chicago for 25 years, but retired from law practice to become president of the Federal Steel Co. He was prominently identified with the organization organization of the United States Steel Corporation, of which he became chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the finance committee. He was president of the American Iron and Steel Institute and, in 1893-1894, was president of the Chicago Bar Association.
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Gary (City of Indiana in Lake It)
a city of Indiana, in Lake It is on the Indiana, Baltimore, co. and Ohio, the Chicago, Indiana and Southern, the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern, and other railroads. The city is at the head of Lake Michigan and lies half way between the great iron ore beds of the north and the coal regions of the south. Its advantageous situation in regard to coal and iron led to the selection of the site for the main plant of the United States Steel Corporation, in April, 1906. The city has become the greatest steel producing city in the world. It contains plants of the American Bridge Works, the Indiana Steel Company, tin-plate works, locomotive works, coke by-product works, etc. It has a public library, a handsome city hall, a hospital, and several public parks. Pop. (1910) 16,802; (1920) 55,378.
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Gas
one of the three states of matter, as distinguished from a solid and a liquid. Some elements, as oxygen and nitrogen, are gases under ordinary conditions. Most liquids and solids can be converted into gases by the application of sufficient heat. All gases have a tendency to expand or increase in bulk; that is, to fill the entire space in which they are confined. Many gases are combustible. Heat expands a gas; loss of heat contracts it. Ordinarily a gas expands or contracts 1/273 of its volume at zero centigrade for every degree of increase or decrease in temperature. Its volume is changed also by a change of pressure. Twice the pressure gives half the volume. Hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are important gases. A ton of coal yields ordinarily 8,000 cubic feet of gas. It has been estimated that under ordinary circumstances a quart of gas contains nearly 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules. See Boyle
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Gas
A name given to all permanently elastic fluids and airs. Gases have no cohesion, in consequence of which, their particles tend to recede from each other and would expand into space--so far as is known--if they were not restrained by the pressure exerted by the atmosphere upon the earth's surface. In gas, as in liquid, the particles are in a condition of equilibrium,--with this difference, that in a liquid the equilibrium exists between the attractive and repulsive forces in the liquid itself, but in the gas between the excess of the repulsive forces in the body and an external pressure. Gases are therefore fluids in consequence of this condition of equilibrium which endows the particles with perfect freedom of motion. Gases are also compressible and elastic. The solid, liquid, and gaseous conditions of bodies depend upon temperature and pressure: for instance, mercury becomes solid at 40 deg. below zero F.; from that temperature to 662 deg. F. it is a liquid, and a gas when the temperature exceeds that. If sufficiently cooled and pressed all gases would probably become liquids, as many of them which are permanent at ordinary atmospheric pressure and temperature become liquids on increasing the pressure and diminishing the temperature, and some even solidify when cooled sufficiently. But some gases, such as oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbonic oxide, and nitrous oxide, cannot be liquefied. See AIR; THERMOMETER; FLUID.
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Gas Furnace
a much em employed for laboratory purposes, and which is so arranged as to receive the maximum heating powers of the gas GAS, NATURAL without regard to its illuminating pur- Various forms have been conposes. trived. Also a furnace of which the fuel is gas from burners suitably disposed in the chamber for the purpose required. Steam boilers and metallurgic furnaces ted in this manner. are sometimes heated
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Gas Heater
This heater, shown in Fig. 138, is to take the place of a forge in heating and tempering small articles. With a full pressure of gas, a piece of steel half an inch in diameter can be heated sufficiently to harden in about six minutes. It does not heat to a degree that will injure the quality of steel; which makes it very valuable for heating small pieces. Watchmakers will find in its use great convenience as well as economy of time and fuel; and also, that tools heated by it will be tougher than when heated in a forge in the usual way. Put on sufficient gas to prevent the flame from descending into the tube. For heating larger pieces the flame should be nearly three inches wide. The upper ends of the curved side pieces should not be more than one-quarter of an inch apart. The article to be heated should be held in the upper part of the flame above the central blue part and parallel with it. The larger the piece to be heated the further it should extend into the flame. The heater should be located in a dark place, and supports may be provided for greater convenience in heating heavy articles.
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