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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... 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 seems to ...
... 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 seems to ...
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... vegetable matter , a considerable portion of the nitrous salt will be common saltpetre ; but , if otherwise , the acid will , for the most part , be combined with the calcareous earth . To extract the saltpetre from the mass of earthy ...
... vegetable matter , a considerable portion of the nitrous salt will be common saltpetre ; but , if otherwise , the acid will , for the most part , be combined with the calcareous earth . To extract the saltpetre from the mass of earthy ...
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... vegetable co- lours . It may be formed by dissolving in diluted nitric acid , with the assistance of heat , fresh precipitated alumine , well wash . ed but not dried . It is deliquescent , and soluble in a very small portion of water ...
... vegetable co- lours . It may be formed by dissolving in diluted nitric acid , with the assistance of heat , fresh precipitated alumine , well wash . ed but not dried . It is deliquescent , and soluble in a very small portion of water ...
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... vegetable colours to green , is somewhat acrid to the taste , and NOCTURNAL arch , in astronomy , the arch of a circle described by the sun , or a star , in the night . D NOCTURNAL , semi , arch of the sun , is that portion of a circle ...
... vegetable colours to green , is somewhat acrid to the taste , and NOCTURNAL arch , in astronomy , the arch of a circle described by the sun , or a star , in the night . D NOCTURNAL , semi , arch of the sun , is that portion of a circle ...
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... vegetable substance which seems to differ from al- most all others of the same kind . It is of a greenish colour , partly transparent , and of a very irregular figure . It trembles at the touch , like jelly , but does not melt like that ...
... vegetable substance which seems to differ from al- most all others of the same kind . It is of a greenish colour , partly transparent , and of a very irregular figure . It trembles at the touch , like jelly , but does not melt like that ...
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