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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... fossil of the siliceous genus , chrysoprase , to which it communicates an apple - green co- lour . Nickel is extracted from the kupfer- nickel , but it is extremely difficult to free it entirely from the metals with which it is ...
... fossil of the siliceous genus , chrysoprase , to which it communicates an apple - green co- lour . Nickel is extracted from the kupfer- nickel , but it is extremely difficult to free it entirely from the metals with which it is ...
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... fossil shells in the mountains of Egypt , and was thereby in- duced to conclude , that the sea must have once covered those parts . In the pyramids of Egypt , mentioned by this author , and which had been built at so early a period that ...
... fossil shells in the mountains of Egypt , and was thereby in- duced to conclude , that the sea must have once covered those parts . In the pyramids of Egypt , mentioned by this author , and which had been built at so early a period that ...
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... Fossils , p . 3. ) But unable otherwise to oppose the opi- nion of Dr. Buttner , that the fossil corals were actually corals which had existed be- fore the flood , he had recourse to the suppo- sition of their having derived their forms ...
... Fossils , p . 3. ) But unable otherwise to oppose the opi- nion of Dr. Buttner , that the fossil corals were actually corals which had existed be- fore the flood , he had recourse to the suppo- sition of their having derived their forms ...
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... fossil woods which now pår- take of the nature of pitch - stone , and wax- opal ( Holzopal ) . In other situations , me- tallic impregnations occur ; as in such woods as are impregnated with the pyrites of iron , so frequently found in ...
... fossil woods which now pår- take of the nature of pitch - stone , and wax- opal ( Holzopal ) . In other situations , me- tallic impregnations occur ; as in such woods as are impregnated with the pyrites of iron , so frequently found in ...
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... fossil . Several fossil species are , however , described , of which nothing similar is known in a recent state . The most striking of these is the Tubipora catenularia , or chain coral , the surface of which , in con- sequence of the ...
... fossil . Several fossil species are , however , described , of which nothing similar is known in a recent state . The most striking of these is the Tubipora catenularia , or chain coral , the surface of which , in con- sequence of the ...
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