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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... observed ; but as in the usual processes by which it is obtained , it is always alloyed with iron ; it was concluded , with probabi lity , that the magnetism it exhibited was owing to the presence of that metal . Since methods , however ...
... observed ; but as in the usual processes by which it is obtained , it is always alloyed with iron ; it was concluded , with probabi lity , that the magnetism it exhibited was owing to the presence of that metal . Since methods , however ...
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... observed of our Saxon ancestors . NIGHTINGALE . See MOTACILLA . NIGRINE , in mineralogy , a species of the Menachine genus . Colour dark brown- ish - black , passing to velvet black ; it occurs in larger and smaller angular grains ; spe ...
... observed of our Saxon ancestors . NIGHTINGALE . See MOTACILLA . NIGRINE , in mineralogy , a species of the Menachine genus . Colour dark brown- ish - black , passing to velvet black ; it occurs in larger and smaller angular grains ; spe ...
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... observed when speak- ing of aqua fortis . The alumine will effect this even after it has been made into pot- tery . The uses of nitre are various . Beside those already indicated , it enters into the composition of fluxes , and is ...
... observed when speak- ing of aqua fortis . The alumine will effect this even after it has been made into pot- tery . The uses of nitre are various . Beside those already indicated , it enters into the composition of fluxes , and is ...
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... observed . " To use the Nocturnal , " turn the upper plate till the long tooth , marked twelve , be against the day of the month on the under plate : then , bringing the instrument near the eye , suspend it by the handle with the plane ...
... observed . " To use the Nocturnal , " turn the upper plate till the long tooth , marked twelve , be against the day of the month on the under plate : then , bringing the instrument near the eye , suspend it by the handle with the plane ...
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... observed angle , and the scale which he in- vented for this purpose , though it has re- ceived some improvements , is still called the Nonius , his latinized name . His works are numerous . NUT - galls are excrescences formed on leaves ...
... observed angle , and the scale which he in- vented for this purpose , though it has re- ceived some improvements , is still called the Nonius , his latinized name . His works are numerous . NUT - galls are excrescences formed on leaves ...
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