Home, Francis

This question, which freezes first, hot water or cold water, is a favorite of popular science magazines. This discussion is taken from the web site http //math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot water.html. Sir Francis Bacon, Descartes and even Aristotle are said to have remarked on it. There are five factors that can make the hot water freeze faster than expected. 

My first LSD experience was conducted at my home under the guidance of Francis Huxley and Dr. Duncan Blewett, a psychologist who had had considerable experience with LSD. As the intention was just to introduce me to the experience, no attempt was made to structure the situation to relate to the problem of designing facilities for the mentally ill. It was thought that I should "enjoy" the experience. My wife was also to participate, but she had some difficulty because she became nauseated quite quickly and vomited. As a result, her LSD experience was brief and slightly unpleasant, although she did experience some of the perceptual phenomena discussed below. 

Ashford, R.W. and Crewe, W. (2003) The Parasites of Homo sapiens - An Annotated Checklist of the Protozoa, Helminths and Arthropods for Which We Are Home. Taylor Francis, London. 

Figure 8-17. Francis Crick s Golden Helix structure above the entrance to the Cricks former home in Cambridge, UK. (Photograph by the authors).

Francis Home, Experiments on Bleaching (Dublin, 1771). Black s essay was entitled An explanation of the effect of lime upon alkaline salts, and a method pointed out whereby it may be used with safety and advantage in bleaching. Black spoke favorably of MacBride s work in his Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1803), 2, 97. 

I extend my appreciation as well to our agent, the capable Carol Mann, who in the time it takes to sneeze found a home for our manuscript at Da Capo Press. There, it was our delight to work with editors Matthew Lore and Wendy Francis. 

Vermeeren, A. P. O. S. (1999), Designing Scenarios and Tasks for User Trials of Home Electronics Devices, in Human Factors in Product Design Current Practice and Future Trends, W. S. Green and P. W. Jordan, Eds., Taylor Francis, London, pp. 47-55. 

Davy s botanical information was partly acquired from his friend Thomas Andrew Knight (1759-1838), whom he met at Sir Joseph Banks s house. Earlier English works on agricultural chemistry are by Francis Home and Archibald Cochrane, ninth Earl of Dundonald. ... 

A similar method to Geoffroy s was employed in 1756 by Francis Home (1720-1813), who was Professor of Materia Medica at Edinburgh. He helped to establish the chemical industry in Scotland, and he published a book entitled Experiments on Bleaching. He described a method for the estimation of potash in which a given weight of the sample was treated with teaspoonfuls of nitric acid until effervescence ceased. The importance of this method is that, although the acid was being measured in terms of teaspoons, it is the first recorded volumetric procedure. 

Francis Home, professor of materia medica in Edinburgh, wrote some medical works, and works on agriculture and on bleachingthe very scarce second edition of the last contains in an appendix a section by Black ... 

The major price reduction of sulfuric acid initiated by the Chamber process led to new studies on this versatile acid. One of the first new developments, taking place in the 1750 s, was for textile bleaching. The initial work was done by Francis Home (1719- 1813). The technology was quickly adopted by the end of the century. One of the major early users of this technology in Britain was Richard Bealey Company, at the beginning of the 1790 s. The firm was later run by Richard Bealey (1810 - 1896). 

Pyrmont, 28 November 1686-- Waldeck ) recognised that the gas collecting in the Grotto del Cane is probably the same as that dissolved in Pyrmont water. Shaw collected air from Scarborough water and Francis Home from the chalybeate water of Dunse (Scotland), but they seem to have thought it was common air. Dr. J. WalP wrote on the mineral spirit of Malvern water. 

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