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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... animals , sheltering them from the dust , or from too much light ; yet is so thin and pellucid , that they can see pretty well through it . NIDUS , among naturalists , signifies a nest , or proper repository for the eggs of birds ...
... animals , sheltering them from the dust , or from too much light ; yet is so thin and pellucid , that they can see pretty well through it . NIDUS , among naturalists , signifies a nest , or proper repository for the eggs of birds ...
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... animal and vege . table bodies , undergoing putrefaction , mixed with calcareous and other earths . It has been ascertained , that if oxygen gas be presented to azote at the instant of its disengagement , nitric acid is formed . This ...
... animal and vege . table bodies , undergoing putrefaction , mixed with calcareous and other earths . It has been ascertained , that if oxygen gas be presented to azote at the instant of its disengagement , nitric acid is formed . This ...
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... animal substances used for food . To these substances it imparts a red colour . See NITROUS acid ; also GUNPOWDER . NITRIC acid . The two principal con- stituent parts of our atmosphere , when in certain proportions , are capable ...
... animal substances used for food . To these substances it imparts a red colour . See NITROUS acid ; also GUNPOWDER . NITRIC acid . The two principal con- stituent parts of our atmosphere , when in certain proportions , are capable ...
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... animal matters are com- pletely decomposed with access of air , and of proper substances with which it can readily combine . Grounds frequent- ly trodden by cattle , and impregnated with their excrements , or the walls of in- habited ...
... animal matters are com- pletely decomposed with access of air , and of proper substances with which it can readily combine . Grounds frequent- ly trodden by cattle , and impregnated with their excrements , or the walls of in- habited ...
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... animal effluvia , or processes in which azote is set free . Hence it abounds in nitre beds , as was observed when treating of the nitrate of potash . It may also be prepared artifi- cially , by pouring dilute nitric acid on carbonate of ...
... animal effluvia , or processes in which azote is set free . Hence it abounds in nitre beds , as was observed when treating of the nitrate of potash . It may also be prepared artifi- cially , by pouring dilute nitric acid on carbonate of ...
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