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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... vapour raised annually at Manchester is about 25 inches . If to this we add five inches for the dew , with Mr. Dalton , it will make the annual evapora- tion 30 inches . Now , if we consider the situation of England , and the greater ...
... vapour raised annually at Manchester is about 25 inches . If to this we add five inches for the dew , with Mr. Dalton , it will make the annual evapora- tion 30 inches . Now , if we consider the situation of England , and the greater ...
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... vapour . Some distinguish exhalations from va- pours , expressing by the former all steams emitted from solid bodies , and by the latter the steams raised from water and other fluids . EXHAUSTED receiver , a glass or other vessel , out ...
... vapour . Some distinguish exhalations from va- pours , expressing by the former all steams emitted from solid bodies , and by the latter the steams raised from water and other fluids . EXHAUSTED receiver , a glass or other vessel , out ...
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... vapours , and undisturbed by winds , as to reflect objects in a kind of aerial screen , rising about thirty feet above the level of the sea . In cloudy heavy wea- ther they are drawn on the surface of the water , bordered with fine ...
... vapours , and undisturbed by winds , as to reflect objects in a kind of aerial screen , rising about thirty feet above the level of the sea . In cloudy heavy wea- ther they are drawn on the surface of the water , bordered with fine ...
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... vapour . It is the opposite to vola . tility . The fixity of bodies appears to be merely relative , and depends on the tem- perature at which they assume the elastic state or form . Such bodies as assume this state at a low temperature ...
... vapour . It is the opposite to vola . tility . The fixity of bodies appears to be merely relative , and depends on the tem- perature at which they assume the elastic state or form . Such bodies as assume this state at a low temperature ...
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... vapour , or red - hot smoke . This , in a certain sense , may be true , but , no doubt , it contains an inaccurate comparison . Simple igni- tion never exceeds in intensity of light the body by contact of which it was pro- duced . But ...
... vapour , or red - hot smoke . This , in a certain sense , may be true , but , no doubt , it contains an inaccurate comparison . Simple igni- tion never exceeds in intensity of light the body by contact of which it was pro- duced . But ...
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