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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... oxide , which expresses the peculiar change that occurs in metallic bodies by the absorption of oxygen Calcination expresses the mode , by which , in metals , this change is produced , and oxydation the circumstance of change . It is ...
... oxide , which expresses the peculiar change that occurs in metallic bodies by the absorption of oxygen Calcination expresses the mode , by which , in metals , this change is produced , and oxydation the circumstance of change . It is ...
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... oxide of lead , and the compound thus formed being insoluble is precipitated , the acetic acid remains united with the argil of the alum in solution . There are added at the same time two ounces of the potash of commerce , and two ...
... oxide of lead , and the compound thus formed being insoluble is precipitated , the acetic acid remains united with the argil of the alum in solution . There are added at the same time two ounces of the potash of commerce , and two ...
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... oxides . All bodies that contain combustibles as component parts are decomposed by heat . Perhaps the metallic alloys are exceptions to this rule ; at least it is not in our power to apply a temperature high enough to produce their ...
... oxides . All bodies that contain combustibles as component parts are decomposed by heat . Perhaps the metallic alloys are exceptions to this rule ; at least it is not in our power to apply a temperature high enough to produce their ...
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... oxide has now taken place of that of calx . See CALCINATION . CALYCANTHEME , in botany , the name of the seventeenth order in Lin- næus's " Fragments of a Natural Me- thod , " consisting of plants , which , among other characters , have ...
... oxide has now taken place of that of calx . See CALCINATION . CALYCANTHEME , in botany , the name of the seventeenth order in Lin- næus's " Fragments of a Natural Me- thod , " consisting of plants , which , among other characters , have ...
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... oxide of manganese , finely levigated , and purified nitre , in the pro- portion of one part of the former to five of the latter . They are to be fused to- gether for half an hour at a high heat , in an earthen crucible . A green mass ...
... oxide of manganese , finely levigated , and purified nitre , in the pro- portion of one part of the former to five of the latter . They are to be fused to- gether for half an hour at a high heat , in an earthen crucible . A green mass ...
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