The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... animal and vegetable bodies , under- going 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 vegetable bodies , under- going 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 sub- stances it imparts a red colour . See Ni- TROUS 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 sub- stances it imparts a red colour . See Ni- TROUS 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 completely decomposed with access of air , and of proper substances with which it can readily combine . Grounds frequently trodden by cattle , and impregnated with their excrements , or the walls of inhabited places ...
... animal matters are completely decomposed with access of air , and of proper substances with which it can readily combine . Grounds frequently trodden by cattle , and impregnated with their excrements , or the walls of inhabited places ...
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... animals which they infest : thus we have O. bovis , O. equi , O. ovis , O. hominis , & c . The principal European ... animal's back . The pain which this operation occasions is extreme ; and hence cattle , as if foreseeing their cruel ...
... animals which they infest : thus we have O. bovis , O. equi , O. ovis , O. hominis , & c . The principal European ... animal's back . The pain which this operation occasions is extreme ; and hence cattle , as if foreseeing their cruel ...
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... animal they have the dreadful ordeal of the teeth and mastication to pass through . On their arrival at the stomach , they may pass mixed with the mass of food into the in- testines ; and when full grown , in drop- ping from the animal ...
... animal they have the dreadful ordeal of the teeth and mastication to pass through . On their arrival at the stomach , they may pass mixed with the mass of food into the in- testines ; and when full grown , in drop- ping from the animal ...
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