British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 9Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... consisting of yel- low sand , intermixed with fragments of granite , gneiss , and mica - slate , and from which gold is obtained by washing . It comes to us commonly intermixed with grains of precious garnet , cyanite , and common sand ...
... consisting of yel- low sand , intermixed with fragments of granite , gneiss , and mica - slate , and from which gold is obtained by washing . It comes to us commonly intermixed with grains of precious garnet , cyanite , and common sand ...
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... consisting of a com- mon chord , with the eighth advanced one note . NIPA , in botany , a genus of the Appen- dix Palmæ class . Natural order of Palmæ or Palms . Essential character : male , spathe ; corolla six - petalled : female ...
... consisting of a com- mon chord , with the eighth advanced one note . NIPA , in botany , a genus of the Appen- dix Palmæ class . Natural order of Palmæ or Palms . Essential character : male , spathe ; corolla six - petalled : female ...
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... consist of the refuse of animal and vege . table bodies , undergoing putrefaction , mixed with calcareous and other ... consists of nitre , common salt , nitrate of lime , and various other salts . The foreign salts are either separated ...
... consist of the refuse of animal and vege . table bodies , undergoing putrefaction , mixed with calcareous and other ... consists of nitre , common salt , nitrate of lime , and various other salts . The foreign salts are either separated ...
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... consists , according to Mr. Davy , of 70.5 of oxygen , and 29.5 of azote , or nitrogen . If these gases be mixed in this proportion in a glass tube , about a line in diameter , over mercury , and a series of electric shocks be passed ...
... consists , according to Mr. Davy , of 70.5 of oxygen , and 29.5 of azote , or nitrogen . If these gases be mixed in this proportion in a glass tube , about a line in diameter , over mercury , and a series of electric shocks be passed ...
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... consists of 78 parts of nitrate of magnesia and 22 of nitrate of ammonia . From the activity of the nitric acid as a solvent of earths in analyzation , the ni- trate of glucine is better known than any other of the salts of this new ...
... consists of 78 parts of nitrate of magnesia and 22 of nitrate of ammonia . From the activity of the nitric acid as a solvent of earths in analyzation , the ni- trate of glucine is better known than any other of the salts of this new ...
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