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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... sometimes called Nilo- scope , an instrument used among the an- cients to measure the height of the water in the river Nile , in its periodical over- flowings . It was first set up , it has been asserted , by Joseph , during his govern ...
... sometimes called Nilo- scope , an instrument used among the an- cients to measure the height of the water in the river Nile , in its periodical over- flowings . It was first set up , it has been asserted , by Joseph , during his govern ...
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... sometimes muriate of magnesia . It is the property of nitre to be much more soluble in hot than cold water ; but common salt is very nearly as soluble in cold as in hot water . Whenever , there- fore , the evaporation is carried by ...
... sometimes muriate of magnesia . It is the property of nitre to be much more soluble in hot than cold water ; but common salt is very nearly as soluble in cold as in hot water . Whenever , there- fore , the evaporation is carried by ...
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... sometimes in bundles of small needles . Its taste is bitter , and very si- milar to that of nitrate of lime , but less pungent . It is fusible , and decomposable by heat , giving out first a little oxygen gas , then nitrous oxide , and ...
... sometimes in bundles of small needles . Its taste is bitter , and very si- milar to that of nitrate of lime , but less pungent . It is fusible , and decomposable by heat , giving out first a little oxygen gas , then nitrous oxide , and ...
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... 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 rank of a commoner . The origin of nobility in ...
... 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 rank of a commoner . The origin of nobility in ...
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... sometimes will suddenly ap- pear with a family of twenty young ones . It is a bird of harsh sound , and almost perpetually uttering it . The flesh of the young birds is valued , and its eggs are thought preferable to those of the common ...
... sometimes will suddenly ap- pear with a family of twenty young ones . It is a bird of harsh sound , and almost perpetually uttering it . The flesh of the young birds is valued , and its eggs are thought preferable to those of the common ...
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