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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... turning up from time to time , are necessary , to accelerate the process , and increase the surfaces to which the air may apply ; but too much moisture is hurtful . When a certain por- tion of nitrate is formed , the process ap- pears ...
... turning up from time to time , are necessary , to accelerate the process , and increase the surfaces to which the air may apply ; but too much moisture is hurtful . When a certain por- tion of nitrate is formed , the process ap- pears ...
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... turn the up- per plate till the long tooth , marked twelve , be against the day of the month on the under plate : then , bringing the instrument near the eye , suspend it by the handle , with the plane nearly parallel to the equinoctial ...
... turn the up- per plate till the long tooth , marked twelve , be against the day of the month on the under plate : then , bringing the instrument near the eye , suspend it by the handle , with the plane nearly parallel to the equinoctial ...
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... turn to any former discovery , as care is taken all along to delineate them in proper characters , we need only cast our eye on that part of the process where they stand expressed , which will lay them at once open to the mind in their ...
... turn to any former discovery , as care is taken all along to delineate them in proper characters , we need only cast our eye on that part of the process where they stand expressed , which will lay them at once open to the mind in their ...
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... turning a screw at G , and let the line of sight be parallel to the plane of the sector . Now , by turning the whole instrument about the axis , HI , till the plane of it be successively directed , first to one of the stars , and then ...
... turning a screw at G , and let the line of sight be parallel to the plane of the sector . Now , by turning the whole instrument about the axis , HI , till the plane of it be successively directed , first to one of the stars , and then ...
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... turns the whole of this appa- ratus , and partly by the index of the quad- rant ; for which purpose the refraction ... turn the circle 90 ° from the two former positions , and set the bubble right , if it be wrong , by the foot screw ...
... turns the whole of this appa- ratus , and partly by the index of the quad- rant ; for which purpose the refraction ... turn the circle 90 ° from the two former positions , and set the bubble right , if it be wrong , by the foot screw ...
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