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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... changes blue ve- getable colours to green , is sometimes acrid to the taste , and when powdered emits a smell of nitric oxide . NITROUS oxide . See GAS . NOBILITY , a quality that ennobles and raises a person possessed of it above the ...
... changes blue ve- getable colours to green , is sometimes acrid to the taste , and when powdered emits a smell of nitric oxide . NITROUS oxide . See GAS . NOBILITY , a quality that ennobles and raises a person possessed of it above the ...
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... changes its place , and shifts its situation from east to west , contrary to the order of the signs ; and that the line of the moon's nodes , by a retrograde motion , finishes its circulation in the compass of nineteen years ; after ...
... changes its place , and shifts its situation from east to west , contrary to the order of the signs ; and that the line of the moon's nodes , by a retrograde motion , finishes its circulation in the compass of nineteen years ; after ...
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... changes and inflections given to this first termination . Its chief use is to be placed in discourse before all verbs , as the subject of the pro- position or affirmation . NONAGISMAL , in astronomy , the 90th degree of the ecliptic ...
... changes and inflections given to this first termination . Its chief use is to be placed in discourse before all verbs , as the subject of the pro- position or affirmation . NONAGISMAL , in astronomy , the 90th degree of the ecliptic ...
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... changes both latitude and lon- gitude . Oblique sailing is of three kinds , viz . plain sailing , Mercator's sailing , and great circle sailing . See NAVIGATION . OBLIQUE sphere , is where the pole is elevated any number of degrees less ...
... changes both latitude and lon- gitude . Oblique sailing is of three kinds , viz . plain sailing , Mercator's sailing , and great circle sailing . See NAVIGATION . OBLIQUE sphere , is where the pole is elevated any number of degrees less ...
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... change to the pupa state . At this period they force themselves out of their respective cells , and falling to the ground , creep beneath the first convenient shel- ter , and laying in an inert state , become contracted into an oval ...
... change to the pupa state . At this period they force themselves out of their respective cells , and falling to the ground , creep beneath the first convenient shel- ter , and laying in an inert state , become contracted into an oval ...
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