The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volumen5Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 |
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... obtained pure , is both ductile and malle- able . It may be forged into very thin plates , their thickness not being greater than 0.01 of an inch . Its colour is inter- mediate between that of silver and tin , and is not altered by the ...
... obtained pure , is both ductile and malle- able . It may be forged into very thin plates , their thickness not being greater than 0.01 of an inch . Its colour is inter- mediate between that of silver and tin , and is not altered by the ...
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... obtained by wash- ing . It comes to us commonly intermixed with grains of precious garnet , cyanite , and common sand . Its name is derived from its black colour ; it is distinguished froin menachianite by its stronger lustre , superior ...
... obtained by wash- ing . It comes to us commonly intermixed with grains of precious garnet , cyanite , and common sand . Its name is derived from its black colour ; it is distinguished froin menachianite by its stronger lustre , superior ...
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... obtained by means of arti- ficial nitre - beds . These consist of the re- fuse of animal and vegetable bodies , under- going putrefaction , mixed with calcareous and other earths . It has been ascertained , that if oxygen gas be ...
... obtained by means of arti- ficial nitre - beds . These consist of the re- fuse of animal and vegetable bodies , under- going putrefaction , mixed with calcareous and other earths . It has been ascertained , that if oxygen gas be ...
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... obtained . The constitution of this acid may be further proved , analytically , by driving it through a red - hot porcelain tube , as thus it will be decomposed into oxygen and nitrogen gases . For all practical pur- poses , however ...
... obtained . The constitution of this acid may be further proved , analytically , by driving it through a red - hot porcelain tube , as thus it will be decomposed into oxygen and nitrogen gases . For all practical pur- poses , however ...
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... obtained it of 1.583 . It is observable , that , on com- paring the tables of Kirwan and Davy , the aëriform acid appears to contain a consider- able portion of water more than that which is combined with soda to form the nitrate ...
... obtained it of 1.583 . It is observable , that , on com- paring the tables of Kirwan and Davy , the aëriform acid appears to contain a consider- able portion of water more than that which is combined with soda to form the nitrate ...
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