Lexicographical Neighbors of Moffettes
Literary usage of Moffettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine: And Annals of Philosophy (1825)
"The first are the most common moffettes, such as those evolved from Vesuvius,
... The permanent moffettes, again, are known to have continued for ages, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"Volcanos give out Sulphuretted hydrogen, sal ammoniac, boracic acid, muriatic
acid, steam; moffettes, connected geographically with volcanos now in action ..."
3. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1822)
"... or Alpine calcareous stone, as I have shown in 1798, in my work on the moffettes
of the Mines. (Ueber die unterirdischen Gasarten, p. 143. ..."
4. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1854)
"But, besides these, there are ephemeral exhalations, the ordinary moffettes,
which regularly appear at many places in the neighbourhood of Vesuvius, ..."
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