The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 - Natural history |
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... mercury . Guyton had observed that the adhesive force of platina and mercury is greater than that of metals which do not combine with it ; and that it is not inferior even to those which readily form alloys ; from which he conjectured ...
... mercury . Guyton had observed that the adhesive force of platina and mercury is greater than that of metals which do not combine with it ; and that it is not inferior even to those which readily form alloys ; from which he conjectured ...
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... mercury . But that column is charged with a weight double of the former , since a pressure of thirty inches of mercury is added to an equal pressure exerted by the atmospheric air , and which is not con- sidered as being diminished ...
... mercury . But that column is charged with a weight double of the former , since a pressure of thirty inches of mercury is added to an equal pressure exerted by the atmospheric air , and which is not con- sidered as being diminished ...
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... mercury is found pure and unaltered . ver . When a globule of the amalgam is thrown into water , it rapidly decompo- ses it with a hissing noise , potash is formed , hydrogen disengaged , and the mercury remains free . The basis of pot ...
... mercury is found pure and unaltered . ver . When a globule of the amalgam is thrown into water , it rapidly decompo- ses it with a hissing noise , potash is formed , hydrogen disengaged , and the mercury remains free . The basis of pot ...
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