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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... sion . The compound has a yellow colour with some brilliancy . It is brittle and hard , and burns when strongly heated in contact with the air . Nickel is also dis- solved by the alkaline sulphurets . With phosphorus , nickel unites ...
... sion . The compound has a yellow colour with some brilliancy . It is brittle and hard , and burns when strongly heated in contact with the air . Nickel is also dis- solved by the alkaline sulphurets . With phosphorus , nickel unites ...
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... sion of many months , more or less , ac- cording to the management of the opera- tion , in which the action of a regular current of fresh air is of the greatest importance , nitre is found in the mass . If the beds contained much ...
... sion of many months , more or less , ac- cording to the management of the opera- tion , in which the action of a regular current of fresh air is of the greatest importance , nitre is found in the mass . If the beds contained much ...
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... sion , and young Nollet adopted without repugnance the choice which they made for him . From a very early age he had shewn a taste for the study of natural philosophy , which had not yet become his ruling passion ; he was , therefore ...
... sion , and young Nollet adopted without repugnance the choice which they made for him . From a very early age he had shewn a taste for the study of natural philosophy , which had not yet become his ruling passion ; he was , therefore ...
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... sion of his own sovereign for accepting it . In the year 1753 , the king establish- ed a professorship of experimental philo- sophy at the Royal College at Navarre , and nominated the Abbé Nollet to fill that post . In the year 1757 ...
... sion of his own sovereign for accepting it . In the year 1753 , the king establish- ed a professorship of experimental philo- sophy at the Royal College at Navarre , and nominated the Abbé Nollet to fill that post . In the year 1757 ...
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... sion , and at the king's death each of these officers breaks his staff over the hearse made for the king's body , and by this means lays down his commission , and discharges all his inferior officers . OFFICERS , subaltern , are all who ...
... sion , and at the king's death each of these officers breaks his staff over the hearse made for the king's body , and by this means lays down his commission , and discharges all his inferior officers . OFFICERS , subaltern , are all who ...
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