The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 - Natural history |
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... colour , or changing it to another : thus indigo , which becomes green by uniting with an alkali , with lime , or a metallic oxyde , resumes its colour , and quits those substances , when it recovers a small portion of the ox- ygen ...
... colour , or changing it to another : thus indigo , which becomes green by uniting with an alkali , with lime , or a metallic oxyde , resumes its colour , and quits those substances , when it recovers a small portion of the ox- ygen ...
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... colour , caused by about three - fourths of crimson or rose colour , and one - fourth of pure bright yellow . He therefore supposed , that , when the natural crimson of the co- chineal is made scarlet , by the usual pro- cess , a fourth ...
... colour , caused by about three - fourths of crimson or rose colour , and one - fourth of pure bright yellow . He therefore supposed , that , when the natural crimson of the co- chineal is made scarlet , by the usual pro- cess , a fourth ...
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... colour produced by the one is called the fine colour , and that by the other the false , the latter of which is dyed by means of archil or Brazil wood . When the fine colour is required , the silk must first be passed through a cochi ...
... colour produced by the one is called the fine colour , and that by the other the false , the latter of which is dyed by means of archil or Brazil wood . When the fine colour is required , the silk must first be passed through a cochi ...
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alkali alum Ammonia angle animal appear axis Barytes base bath bisect blue body boiled botany called calyx capsule carbonic carbonic acid centre circle class and order colour common CONCHOLOGY cone conic section conic surface copper corolla cotton court crystals curve degree diameter dissolved draw drawn dyeing earth ellipse equal Essential character figure five flowers fluid four galls genus heat heraldry hyperbola inches iron Jussieu kind length less lime liquor Magnesia matter ment Monogynia class motion multivalve muriatic Muriatic acid native Natural order nitric Nitric acid observed opposite hyperbolas Oxide parabola parallel person petals plane plants Plate potash pounds produced proportion quantity racter right line salt seeds shade shell side silk Soda solution sometimes species square stomach Strontian stuff substance sulphate sulphuric acid tangent tartar tion valve vessel weight wool yellow