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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... separates in crystal ; while the remaining common salt continues dissolved , be- cause equally soluble in cold and in hot water . Subsequent evaporation of the residue will separate more nitre in the same manner . This nitre , which is ...
... separates in crystal ; while the remaining common salt continues dissolved , be- cause equally soluble in cold and in hot water . Subsequent evaporation of the residue will separate more nitre in the same manner . This nitre , which is ...
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... separates the East Indies from Africa , which is three thousand miles over . The other seas , which are called oceans , are only parts or branches of these , and usually receive their names from the countries they border upon . For the ...
... separates the East Indies from Africa , which is three thousand miles over . The other seas , which are called oceans , are only parts or branches of these , and usually receive their names from the countries they border upon . For the ...
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... separate at bottom , discovering the corolla , a long time before it acquires sufficient expan- sive force to unhook the calyx at top : when it has accomplished this , it expands almost instantaneously to a certain point ; it then makes ...
... separate at bottom , discovering the corolla , a long time before it acquires sufficient expan- sive force to unhook the calyx at top : when it has accomplished this , it expands almost instantaneously to a certain point ; it then makes ...
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... separate from the oils when they are left at rest . They are sometimes mechanical- ly purified by filtration through coarse cloths , by which means the grosser parts are separated . Different oils too , it is said , undergo different ...
... separate from the oils when they are left at rest . They are sometimes mechanical- ly purified by filtration through coarse cloths , by which means the grosser parts are separated . Different oils too , it is said , undergo different ...
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... separate pencils , or , as it were , bundles of rays , from each point of the side of the object next the mirror ; therefore they will not be con- verged to a point at the distance of half the radius of the mirror's concavity from its ...
... separate pencils , or , as it were , bundles of rays , from each point of the side of the object next the mirror ; therefore they will not be con- verged to a point at the distance of half the radius of the mirror's concavity from its ...
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