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... called the fairy " chemical attraction " to help it , and dragged the atoms of oxygen out of the water and joined them to itself . In doing this it also caught part of the hydrogen , but only half , and so the rest was left out in the ...
... called the fairy " chemical attraction " to help it , and dragged the atoms of oxygen out of the water and joined them to itself . In doing this it also caught part of the hydrogen , but only half , and so the rest was left out in the ...
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... called a prism . If I put it in the sunlight which is streaming through the window , what happens ? Look ! on the Fig . 6 . table there is a line of beautiful colours . I can make it long or short , as I turn the prism , but the colours ...
... called a prism . If I put it in the sunlight which is streaming through the window , what happens ? Look ! on the Fig . 6 . table there is a line of beautiful colours . I can make it long or short , as I turn the prism , but the colours ...
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... called oxygen , is used up when anything burns , while the other nitrogen is not used , and only serves to dilute the minute atoms of oxygen . I have here a glass bell - jar , with a cork fixed tightly in the neck , and I place the jar ...
... called oxygen , is used up when anything burns , while the other nitrogen is not used , and only serves to dilute the minute atoms of oxygen . I have here a glass bell - jar , with a cork fixed tightly in the neck , and I place the jar ...
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... called " spirits of hartshorn . " This ammonia is useful to plants , as we shall see by and by . Lastly , there is a great deal of water in the air , floating about as invisible vapour or water - dust , and this we shall speak of in the ...
... called " spirits of hartshorn . " This ammonia is useful to plants , as we shall see by and by . Lastly , there is a great deal of water in the air , floating about as invisible vapour or water - dust , and this we shall speak of in the ...
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... called ; and when , in 1862 , Mr. Glaisher and Mr. Coxwell went up five miles and a half , Mr. Glaisher's veins began to swell , and his head grew dizzy , and he fainted . The air was too thin for him to breathe enough in at a time ...
... called ; and when , in 1862 , Mr. Glaisher and Mr. Coxwell went up five miles and a half , Mr. Glaisher's veins began to swell , and his head grew dizzy , and he fainted . The air was too thin for him to breathe enough in at a time ...
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