The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge : Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Elegant Engravings. N - R. 5Longman, 1809 - 680 pages |
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Page 10
... 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 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 , Ó . 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 , Ó . 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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... animals snch as train oil , as it is called , which is ex- tracted from the fat or blubber of the whale . Fixed oil ... animal oils , on the contrary , are generally extremely nauseous and offensive . These differences are sup- posed to ...
... animals snch as train oil , as it is called , which is ex- tracted from the fat or blubber of the whale . Fixed oil ... animal oils , on the contrary , are generally extremely nauseous and offensive . These differences are sup- posed to ...
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