The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... fluid , from the intes- tines , the latter lymph , a thin pellucid liquor , from the places whence they take their origin . The lymphatics also take up any fluids that are extravasated , and likewise substances rubbed on the skin , as ...
... fluid , from the intes- tines , the latter lymph , a thin pellucid liquor , from the places whence they take their origin . The lymphatics also take up any fluids that are extravasated , and likewise substances rubbed on the skin , as ...
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... fluids , which make the 47 , & c . Propo sitions of Book II . of his Principles of Na- tural Philosophy . They have been consi- dered as ... fluid , we should have no sound will be the most distinctly heard . The augmentation ACOUSTICS .
... fluids , which make the 47 , & c . Propo sitions of Book II . of his Principles of Na- tural Philosophy . They have been consi- dered as ... fluid , we should have no sound will be the most distinctly heard . The augmentation ACOUSTICS .
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... fluid with the same velocity with which they arrived at that ob- stacle . When the walls of a passage , or of an unfurnished room , are smooth and perfectly parallel , any explosion , or a stamping with the foot , communicates an ...
... fluid with the same velocity with which they arrived at that ob- stacle . When the walls of a passage , or of an unfurnished room , are smooth and perfectly parallel , any explosion , or a stamping with the foot , communicates an ...
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... fluids , as the suspension of water in ca- pillary tubes ; or lastly , between two fluids , as oil and water . About the same time Mr. Hanksbee proved experimentally the error which Bernoulli had fallen into , in at- tributing the ...
... fluids , as the suspension of water in ca- pillary tubes ; or lastly , between two fluids , as oil and water . About the same time Mr. Hanksbee proved experimentally the error which Bernoulli had fallen into , in at- tributing the ...
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... fluid , with a foetid odour , turning syrup of violets green , and manifestly containing ammonia in solu- tion ; the soapy matter remaining in the re- tort had acquired a greater consistence , was become less fusible , of a deeper brown ...
... fluid , with a foetid odour , turning syrup of violets green , and manifestly containing ammonia in solu- tion ; the soapy matter remaining in the re- tort had acquired a greater consistence , was become less fusible , of a deeper brown ...
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