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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... substance that lies between the inner bark and the wood of trees , composed of layers of the former , which have not attained the solidity of the latter . Plants , after they have germinated , do not remain stationary , but are ...
... substance that lies between the inner bark and the wood of trees , composed of layers of the former , which have not attained the solidity of the latter . Plants , after they have germinated , do not remain stationary , but are ...
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... substances at least which compose gold exist in all metals , and are capable of being obtained from them . The great object of their researches was to convert the baser metals into gold . The substance which pro- duced this property ...
... substances at least which compose gold exist in all metals , and are capable of being obtained from them . The great object of their researches was to convert the baser metals into gold . The substance which pro- duced this property ...
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... substance , slightly hardened by carbonate , mixed with a small portion of phospate of lime . ALDEBARAN , in astronomy , a star of the first magnitude , called in English the Bull's eye , as making the eye of the constel- lation Taurus ...
... substance , slightly hardened by carbonate , mixed with a small portion of phospate of lime . ALDEBARAN , in astronomy , a star of the first magnitude , called in English the Bull's eye , as making the eye of the constel- lation Taurus ...
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... substance . The parts of fructification are either found in saucers or tubercules , as in lichens ; in hol- low bladders , as in the fuci ; or dispersed through the whole substance of the plants , as in the ulvæ . The substance of the ...
... substance . The parts of fructification are either found in saucers or tubercules , as in lichens ; in hol- low bladders , as in the fuci ; or dispersed through the whole substance of the plants , as in the ulvæ . The substance of the ...
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... substance , in length from six to nine or ten ALLOY , in a chemical sense , may be defined a combination of two or more me . tals into one homogeneous mass , not separa- ble from each other by mere heat . The most valuable and useful of ...
... substance , in length from six to nine or ten ALLOY , in a chemical sense , may be defined a combination of two or more me . tals into one homogeneous mass , not separa- ble from each other by mere heat . The most valuable and useful of ...
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