American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 9Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... means he frequently drew over to his opinion , those who differed widely from him in sentiment . With such a character , he acquired great credit and influence in the council of the town of Puremerende , where he resided ; and also in ...
... means he frequently drew over to his opinion , those who differed widely from him in sentiment . With such a character , he acquired great credit and influence in the council of the town of Puremerende , where he resided ; and also in ...
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... means of artificial nitre - beds . These consist of the refuse of animal and vege table bodies , undergoing putrefaction , mixed with calcareous and other earths . It has been ascertained , that if oxygen gas be presented to azote at ...
... means of artificial nitre - beds . These consist of the refuse of animal and vege table bodies , undergoing putrefaction , mixed with calcareous and other earths . It has been ascertained , that if oxygen gas be presented to azote at ...
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... means of strong sul- phuric acid . The nitric acid is of considerable use in the arts . It is employed for etching on copper , as a solvent of tin , to form with that metal a mordant for some of the finest dies ; in metallurgy and ...
... means of strong sul- phuric acid . The nitric acid is of considerable use in the arts . It is employed for etching on copper , as a solvent of tin , to form with that metal a mordant for some of the finest dies ; in metallurgy and ...
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... means we are enabled to represent things in the form of equations ; and by vari- ously proceeding with these equations , to trace out , step by step , the several par- ticulars we want to know . Add to all this , that by such a notation ...
... means we are enabled to represent things in the form of equations ; and by vari- ously proceeding with these equations , to trace out , step by step , the several par- ticulars we want to know . Add to all this , that by such a notation ...
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... means of a quadrant . OBLIQUE sailing , in navigation , is when a ship sails upon some rhumb between the four ... mean only the taking the meridian altitudes , in order to find the latitude ; and the finding D But the latitude from such ...
... means of a quadrant . OBLIQUE sailing , in navigation , is when a ship sails upon some rhumb between the four ... mean only the taking the meridian altitudes , in order to find the latitude ; and the finding D But the latitude from such ...
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