CONSERVATION

n. Ko2n-zu5rv-a's hun. Gr.,<u'Aafi. Lat., conservatio (from conservare, to preserve). Fr., c. Ger., Erhaltung. It., conservazione. Sp., con ser vac i on. The preserving of anvthing against lo or deterioration. C. of energy. Fr., c. d'energie. Ger., Kraftserhaltung. A principle universal in its application, by virtue of which any form of energy, whether occurring in organized or in unorganized bodies, never suffers lo but is transmuted into some other form of energy of equivalent power. An example of the c. is found in the development of heat by the arrest of a moving body by the discharge of nervous energy, as in the proce of thinking. [B.] [s. 381]