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... temperature , altering size and form , changing physical state . ( c ) Ther- mometry . ( d ) Calorimetry . ( e ) Thermodynamics , or the mutual convertibility of heat and work . ( f ) Dissipation of energy by diffusion of matter by ...
... temperature , altering size and form , changing physical state . ( c ) Ther- mometry . ( d ) Calorimetry . ( e ) Thermodynamics , or the mutual convertibility of heat and work . ( f ) Dissipation of energy by diffusion of matter by ...
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... temperature . Now such a body , such a mass of simple protoplasm , homogeneous save for the admixtures spoken of above , is a . living body , and all the phenomena which we sketched out at the very beginning of this article as ...
... temperature . Now such a body , such a mass of simple protoplasm , homogeneous save for the admixtures spoken of above , is a . living body , and all the phenomena which we sketched out at the very beginning of this article as ...
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... temperature suitable for the development of their powers . As we have already said , the blood is the agent which not only supplies both food and oxygen but sweeps away all refuse , and , we may add , is the instrument for maintaining ...
... temperature suitable for the development of their powers . As we have already said , the blood is the agent which not only supplies both food and oxygen but sweeps away all refuse , and , we may add , is the instrument for maintaining ...
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... temperature , we come , as before , on problems partly mechanical or chemical and partly molecular . The changes which the food undergoes in the intestine can be , and have been , successfully studied as a series of purely chemical prob ...
... temperature , we come , as before , on problems partly mechanical or chemical and partly molecular . The changes which the food undergoes in the intestine can be , and have been , successfully studied as a series of purely chemical prob ...
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... temperatures above 45 ° C. destroy excitability the more rapidly as they approach 70 ° , at which point it is almost instantaneously destroyed . Below 45 ° a rise of temperature first increases and then diminishes excitability , and it ...
... temperatures above 45 ° C. destroy excitability the more rapidly as they approach 70 ° , at which point it is almost instantaneously destroyed . Below 45 ° a rise of temperature first increases and then diminishes excitability , and it ...
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