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 5Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... specific gravity of the floating body must be known ; after which it must be found by geometrical method , in what positions the solid can be placed on the surface of the fluid , so that both centres of gravity may be in the same ...
... specific gravity of the floating body must be known ; after which it must be found by geometrical method , in what positions the solid can be placed on the surface of the fluid , so that both centres of gravity may be in the same ...
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... specific gravity of the bird above the air . If the air , therefore , be so rare as to give way with the same velo . city as it is struck withal , there will be no resistance , and consequently the bird can never mount . Birds never fly ...
... specific gravity of the bird above the air . If the air , therefore , be so rare as to give way with the same velo . city as it is struck withal , there will be no resistance , and consequently the bird can never mount . Birds never fly ...
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... specific gravity 4.05 ; it attracts the magnetic needles When pulverized and heated with dilute nitric acid , it is converted into a yellow- ish - grey thick jelly . It decrepitates before the blow pipe , assumes a redish white colour ...
... specific gravity 4.05 ; it attracts the magnetic needles When pulverized and heated with dilute nitric acid , it is converted into a yellow- ish - grey thick jelly . It decrepitates before the blow pipe , assumes a redish white colour ...
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... specific gravity is 1.2 . It is partly solu ble in water and alcohol , and when dis- tilled , it yields about half its weight of volatile oil , which is of a bluish co- lour . GALBULA , the jacamar , in natural history , a genus of ...
... specific gravity is 1.2 . It is partly solu ble in water and alcohol , and when dis- tilled , it yields about half its weight of volatile oil , which is of a bluish co- lour . GALBULA , the jacamar , in natural history , a genus of ...
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... specific gravity is about 4.3 , and it consists of Silica 0.25 35.75 Alumina 27,25 Oxide of Iron 36.0 Manganese Loss 1 99.25 . 0.75 100 Before the blow - pipe it melts into a black enamel . The common garnet is brown or green , is not ...
... specific gravity is about 4.3 , and it consists of Silica 0.25 35.75 Alumina 27,25 Oxide of Iron 36.0 Manganese Loss 1 99.25 . 0.75 100 Before the blow - pipe it melts into a black enamel . The common garnet is brown or green , is not ...
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