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 3Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... caloric fluid may not take place in the same angles , we think it safest to consider it as of an uniform effect , and after deducting one - fourth part thereof as a compensation , there remains 55454 ° , as the expression of its power ...
... caloric fluid may not take place in the same angles , we think it safest to consider it as of an uniform effect , and after deducting one - fourth part thereof as a compensation , there remains 55454 ° , as the expression of its power ...
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... caloric or ice before it can imbibed by snow melt . The superficies of spherical bodies are to each other as the squares of their re- The diameter of the spective diameters . moon is considered to be 2180 miles , and its mean distance ...
... caloric or ice before it can imbibed by snow melt . The superficies of spherical bodies are to each other as the squares of their re- The diameter of the spective diameters . moon is considered to be 2180 miles , and its mean distance ...
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... CALORIC , in chemistry , a word used to signify that substance or property , by which the phenomena of heat are pro- duced . Concerning the nature of caloric there are two opinions , which have divid- ed philosophers ever since they ...
... CALORIC , in chemistry , a word used to signify that substance or property , by which the phenomena of heat are pro- duced . Concerning the nature of caloric there are two opinions , which have divid- ed philosophers ever since they ...
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... caloric . That this is the case was demonstrated long ago by Dr. Hooke , and afterwards by Scheele , who separat- ed the two species from each other by a very simple method . If a glass mirror be held before a fire , it reflects the ...
... caloric . That this is the case was demonstrated long ago by Dr. Hooke , and afterwards by Scheele , who separat- ed the two species from each other by a very simple method . If a glass mirror be held before a fire , it reflects the ...
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... caloric is incapable of moving in rays through solid bodies , yet it is well known that all bodies whatever are pervious to it . Through solids , then , it must pass in a ... caloric 1 ed through all bodies with the same ce- lerity CALORIC .
... caloric is incapable of moving in rays through solid bodies , yet it is well known that all bodies whatever are pervious to it . Through solids , then , it must pass in a ... caloric 1 ed through all bodies with the same ce- lerity CALORIC .
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