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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... thing like that from putrid fish . When it comes into contact with common air , it burns with great rapidity , and if mixed with that air is detonates violently . Oxy- gen gas produces a still more rapid and brilliant combustion than ...
... thing like that from putrid fish . When it comes into contact with common air , it burns with great rapidity , and if mixed with that air is detonates violently . Oxy- gen gas produces a still more rapid and brilliant combustion than ...
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... things by experiments , as in hydrostatics , pneuma- tics , optics , & c . but more particularly in chemistry , in which more has been done the last thirty years than could possibly have been conceived by the imagination . Mechanical ...
... things by experiments , as in hydrostatics , pneuma- tics , optics , & c . but more particularly in chemistry , in which more has been done the last thirty years than could possibly have been conceived by the imagination . Mechanical ...
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... things , and whose princi- pal effects are seen , in its removing the bodies which it animates from the agen- cy of chemical affinities , to which the multiplicity of their elements would otherwise have rendered them prone ; and in its ...
... things , and whose princi- pal effects are seen , in its removing the bodies which it animates from the agen- cy of chemical affinities , to which the multiplicity of their elements would otherwise have rendered them prone ; and in its ...
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... thing that lives ; it has no particular organs , but is universally expanded in all living parts , whether of vegetables or animals . Contractility may be either voluntary and sensible ( vis nervosa ) , which is subordi- insensible ...
... thing that lives ; it has no particular organs , but is universally expanded in all living parts , whether of vegetables or animals . Contractility may be either voluntary and sensible ( vis nervosa ) , which is subordi- insensible ...
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... thing possess- ing a power of concretion may become the subject of urinary calculus . This di- versity of constituent elements , together with the want of characteristic symptoms of the different species , and the irritation which the ...
... thing possess- ing a power of concretion may become the subject of urinary calculus . This di- versity of constituent elements , together with the want of characteristic symptoms of the different species , and the irritation which the ...
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