The Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts, Volume 5John Murray, 1818 - Science |
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... Metal XXII . Meteorological Diary for the Months of March , April , and May , 1818 , kept at Earl Spencer's Seat at Althorp , in Northamptonshire . . . . 389 A Select List of New Publications during the Three last Months . 392 Index ...
... Metal XXII . Meteorological Diary for the Months of March , April , and May , 1818 , kept at Earl Spencer's Seat at Althorp , in Northamptonshire . . . . 389 A Select List of New Publications during the Three last Months . 392 Index ...
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... metal may be considered as the exclusive product of South America , having been hitherto only found in New Gra- nada , in the province of Barbacoas , near the shores of the South Sea , and in Brazil . Vauquelin indeed , has lately ...
... metal may be considered as the exclusive product of South America , having been hitherto only found in New Gra- nada , in the province of Barbacoas , near the shores of the South Sea , and in Brazil . Vauquelin indeed , has lately ...
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... metal , sp . gr . 22 , very ductile and malleable . Dr. Wollaston , by the ingenious expedient of enveloping it in silver , has drawn it into wire , one two- thousandth of an inch only in thickness . It is very difficult of fusion , and ...
... metal , sp . gr . 22 , very ductile and malleable . Dr. Wollaston , by the ingenious expedient of enveloping it in silver , has drawn it into wire , one two- thousandth of an inch only in thickness . It is very difficult of fusion , and ...
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... metal may be obtained by shaking mercury in the solution of the oxide , and distilling the mercury from the amalgam so formed ; the metal is white , very infusible and fixed . With tincture of galls its solutions afford a blue ...
... metal may be obtained by shaking mercury in the solution of the oxide , and distilling the mercury from the amalgam so formed ; the metal is white , very infusible and fixed . With tincture of galls its solutions afford a blue ...
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... metals from this complicated mixture , may be considered as one of the great triumphs of modern analysis , and sets the ... metal - mercury or quicksilver , of which there is but one ore of any consequence : the sulphuret called also ...
... metals from this complicated mixture , may be considered as one of the great triumphs of modern analysis , and sets the ... metal - mercury or quicksilver , of which there is but one ore of any consequence : the sulphuret called also ...
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