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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... fall to the bottom , for want of water to hold it in solution , though the nitre will remain suspended by virtue of the heat . The common salt thus sepa- rated is taken out with a perforated la- dle , and a small quantity of the fluid ...
... fall to the bottom , for want of water to hold it in solution , though the nitre will remain suspended by virtue of the heat . The common salt thus sepa- rated is taken out with a perforated la- dle , and a small quantity of the fluid ...
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... fall ; i . e . between the 22d of March and the 25th of April . Thus , if Easter Sunday fall as in the first line below , the number of direc- tion will be as on the lower line . April . and so on , till the number of direction and the ...
... fall ; i . e . between the 22d of March and the 25th of April . Thus , if Easter Sunday fall as in the first line below , the number of direc- tion will be as on the lower line . April . and so on , till the number of direction and the ...
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... falling to pieces on a smart blow . Its surface is not smooth , but furrowed with a number of wrinkles , running in various directions , though principally longitudinally . It is of a grey- ish brown colour on the outside , and of a ...
... falling to pieces on a smart blow . Its surface is not smooth , but furrowed with a number of wrinkles , running in various directions , though principally longitudinally . It is of a grey- ish brown colour on the outside , and of a ...
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... falls exactly in the axis of the glass ; and to be ill centered , when it falls out of the axis . To prove whether object ... fall in the middle , or central point of the glass , it is known to be truly centered . As object - glasses are ...
... falls exactly in the axis of the glass ; and to be ill centered , when it falls out of the axis . To prove whether object ... fall in the middle , or central point of the glass , it is known to be truly centered . As object - glasses are ...
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... fall of bodies ; being also a kind of long telescopical tube , through which the stars are seen at mid - day . Tycho Brahe's Observatory was in the little island Ween , or the Scarlet Island , between the coasts of Schonen and Zea- land ...
... fall of bodies ; being also a kind of long telescopical tube , through which the stars are seen at mid - day . Tycho Brahe's Observatory was in the little island Ween , or the Scarlet Island , between the coasts of Schonen and Zea- land ...
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