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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... combination . It may be laid down as a general rule , to which there is no known exception , that every addition or abstraction of calo- ric makes a corresponding change in the bulk of the body which has been subject- ed to this ...
... combination . It may be laid down as a general rule , to which there is no known exception , that every addition or abstraction of calo- ric makes a corresponding change in the bulk of the body which has been subject- ed to this ...
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... combinations into which oxygen enters , without having oc- casioned combustion , are decomposable by heat . This is the case with nitric acid , hyperoxymuriatic acid , and many of the metallic oxides . All bodies that contain ...
... combinations into which oxygen enters , without having oc- casioned combustion , are decomposable by heat . This is the case with nitric acid , hyperoxymuriatic acid , and many of the metallic oxides . All bodies that contain ...
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... combination ; and , perhaps , there is no combination unaccompanied by such a change . In some instances this takes place in a very remarkable degree , and it is from hence that we derive the effects of calorific and frigorific mixtures ...
... combination ; and , perhaps , there is no combination unaccompanied by such a change . In some instances this takes place in a very remarkable degree , and it is from hence that we derive the effects of calorific and frigorific mixtures ...
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... combined with the saline and metallic substances left after its combustion . For the sake of pre- cision , a distinction is made in the new nomenclature , between the pure inflam- mable base and the substance in which it is thus ...
... combined with the saline and metallic substances left after its combustion . For the sake of pre- cision , a distinction is made in the new nomenclature , between the pure inflam- mable base and the substance in which it is thus ...
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... combination of their bases with the other acids . CARBONIC acid , a gaseous product of the full saturation of carbon with oxygen . It was made known to chemists by Dr. Black , under the name of fixed air , and may be regarded as the ...
... combination of their bases with the other acids . CARBONIC acid , a gaseous product of the full saturation of carbon with oxygen . It was made known to chemists by Dr. Black , under the name of fixed air , and may be regarded as the ...
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