The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... heat , and much wa- ter : -and Wheler's Abroma , so called by Koenig , in compliment to Edward Wheler , Esq . of the Supreme Council in Bengal ; this is a shrub with a brown bark , a native of the East Indies , and is not known in ...
... heat , and much wa- ter : -and Wheler's Abroma , so called by Koenig , in compliment to Edward Wheler , Esq . of the Supreme Council in Bengal ; this is a shrub with a brown bark , a native of the East Indies , and is not known in ...
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... heat ; the acid be- ing partly driven off , partly destroyed : - they are very soluble in water : —when mixed with sulphuric acid , and distilled in a mo- derate heat , acetic acid is disengaged : - when they are dissolved in water ...
... heat ; the acid be- ing partly driven off , partly destroyed : - they are very soluble in water : —when mixed with sulphuric acid , and distilled in a mo- derate heat , acetic acid is disengaged : - when they are dissolved in water ...
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... heat . ACHROMATIC , an epithet expressing a want of colour , introduced into astronomy by De la Lande . ACHROMATIC telescopes , are telescopes contrived to remedy the aberrations in co- lours . They were invented by Mr. John Dolland ...
... heat . ACHROMATIC , an epithet expressing a want of colour , introduced into astronomy by De la Lande . ACHROMATIC telescopes , are telescopes contrived to remedy the aberrations in co- lours . They were invented by Mr. John Dolland ...
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... heating in an earthen vessel , till it became of a pasty consistence , and then rubbed through a fine hair sieve , by which means the hair , small bones , and remains of the muscular fibre were separated with to- lerable exactness . In ...
... heating in an earthen vessel , till it became of a pasty consistence , and then rubbed through a fine hair sieve , by which means the hair , small bones , and remains of the muscular fibre were separated with to- lerable exactness . In ...
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... Heat is well known to rarefy and expand , and conse- quently to lessen the specific gravity of the air to which it is applied ; and the diminu- tion of its weight is proportional to the heat . One degree of heat , according to the scale ...
... Heat is well known to rarefy and expand , and conse- quently to lessen the specific gravity of the air to which it is applied ; and the diminu- tion of its weight is proportional to the heat . One degree of heat , according to the scale ...
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