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 9Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... supposed to contain it , by distil- lation in an earthen retort with half their weight of iron filings or lime . The mer- cury , if any be present , will rise and be condensed in the receiver . " Ores of zinc " may be digested with the ...
... supposed to contain it , by distil- lation in an earthen retort with half their weight of iron filings or lime . The mer- cury , if any be present , will rise and be condensed in the receiver . " Ores of zinc " may be digested with the ...
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... supposed the organs common feeling , by means of which they are enabled to flutter , after being blind- ed , without flying against any thing . The whiskers of many animals appear likewise to serve the same purpose of informing them of ...
... supposed the organs common feeling , by means of which they are enabled to flutter , after being blind- ed , without flying against any thing . The whiskers of many animals appear likewise to serve the same purpose of informing them of ...
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... supposed at an infinite distance ; so called , because the perpendiculars from any point of the sphere will all fall in the common inter- section of the sphere with the plane of the projection . ORTHOGRAPHY , that part of gram- mar ...
... supposed at an infinite distance ; so called , because the perpendiculars from any point of the sphere will all fall in the common inter- section of the sphere with the plane of the projection . ORTHOGRAPHY , that part of gram- mar ...
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... supposed by Strabo , who saw the fragments of these stones laying around the pyramids , to be the petrified remains of the lentils which had been used for food by the workmen . Eratos- thenes , Xanthus of Lydia , and Strabo , have all ...
... supposed by Strabo , who saw the fragments of these stones laying around the pyramids , to be the petrified remains of the lentils which had been used for food by the workmen . Eratos- thenes , Xanthus of Lydia , and Strabo , have all ...
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... supposed by Mr. Parkinson , it passes through another process , which he con- siders as fermentative , and becomes bitu- minous . Wood , thus changed , is called lignum fossile bituminosum , surturbrand , and Bovey coal . By the ...
... supposed by Mr. Parkinson , it passes through another process , which he con- siders as fermentative , and becomes bitu- minous . Wood , thus changed , is called lignum fossile bituminosum , surturbrand , and Bovey coal . By the ...
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