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... once , and locked them together in a drop , the closest form in which they could lie . Then as the drops became larger and larger they fell into the grasp of another invisible force , gravitation , which dragged them down to the earth ...
... once , and locked them together in a drop , the closest form in which they could lie . Then as the drops became larger and larger they fell into the grasp of another invisible force , gravitation , which dragged them down to the earth ...
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... see them all so instan- taneously that they are mingled together . In the same way light looks white to you , because all the different coloured waves strike on your eye at once . You 40 THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE .
... see them all so instan- taneously that they are mingled together . In the same way light looks white to you , because all the different coloured waves strike on your eye at once . You 40 THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE .
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Arabella Burton Fisher. coloured waves strike on your eye at once . You can easily make one of these cards for yourselves , only the white will always look dirty , because you cannot get the colours pure . Now , when the light passes ...
Arabella Burton Fisher. coloured waves strike on your eye at once . You can easily make one of these cards for yourselves , only the white will always look dirty , because you cannot get the colours pure . Now , when the light passes ...
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... once in a sun- beam , and has travelled from it through the food you have eaten , and has now been at work keeping up the heat of your body . But there is still another way in which these plants may give out the heat - waves they have ...
... once in a sun- beam , and has travelled from it through the food you have eaten , and has now been at work keeping up the heat of your body . But there is still another way in which these plants may give out the heat - waves they have ...
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... jar now nitrogen is the only gas left , and the water has risen up to fill all the rest of the space that was once taken up with the oxygen . We can easily prove that there is no oxygen now. THE AERIAL OCEAN IN WHICH WE LIVE . 53.
... jar now nitrogen is the only gas left , and the water has risen up to fill all the rest of the space that was once taken up with the oxygen . We can easily prove that there is no oxygen now. THE AERIAL OCEAN IN WHICH WE LIVE . 53.
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