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, 1821 |
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... kind of heavy spar . PHOSPHOROUS acid , is obtained by the slow combustion of phosphorus at the common temperature of the air . If phos- phorus , in small pieces , be exposed to the air in a glass funnel placed in a bot- tle , it ...
... kind of heavy spar . PHOSPHOROUS acid , is obtained by the slow combustion of phosphorus at the common temperature of the air . If phos- phorus , in small pieces , be exposed to the air in a glass funnel placed in a bot- tle , it ...
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... kind , the essential part of which con- sists of a glass tube like a reversed syphon , whose two branches should be equal in height , and terminated by balls of equal diameter ; one of the balls is of black enamel , and the other of ...
... kind , the essential part of which con- sists of a glass tube like a reversed syphon , whose two branches should be equal in height , and terminated by balls of equal diameter ; one of the balls is of black enamel , and the other of ...
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... kind . It is a native of Terra del Fuego . Eu- PHYLLANTHUS , in botany , a genus of the Monoecia Triandria class and or- der . Natural order of Tricocca . phorbia , Jussieu . Essential character : male , calyx six - parted , bell ...
... kind . It is a native of Terra del Fuego . Eu- PHYLLANTHUS , in botany , a genus of the Monoecia Triandria class and or- der . Natural order of Tricocca . phorbia , Jussieu . Essential character : male , calyx six - parted , bell ...
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... kind of wickedness , whose head and face bear the marks of malice , through a deformity existing perhaps before his birth . Were the bones incompressible from the instant they are formed , and the muscles incapable of being moulded to ...
... kind of wickedness , whose head and face bear the marks of malice , through a deformity existing perhaps before his birth . Were the bones incompressible from the instant they are formed , and the muscles incapable of being moulded to ...
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... kind of data on which to argue , nor can the secret operations of nature ever be penetrated which relate to the formation of man . Much of the general resemblance be- tween members of a family depend upon a congeniality of sentiments ...
... kind of data on which to argue , nor can the secret operations of nature ever be penetrated which relate to the formation of man . Much of the general resemblance be- tween members of a family depend upon a congeniality of sentiments ...
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