Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 51813 |
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... mercury , is perfectly colourless and transparent ; it has a pungent suffocating odour like muriatic acid , produces immediate death to animals which are immersed in it , extin- guishes the flame of a candle after having pre- viously ...
... mercury , is perfectly colourless and transparent ; it has a pungent suffocating odour like muriatic acid , produces immediate death to animals which are immersed in it , extin- guishes the flame of a candle after having pre- viously ...
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... mercury and pla- tina ; the former being scarcely ever seen in a solid form , and the latter almost as difficult of fusion . The metals , therefore , may be ranked in this order , according to their degrees of fusi- bility . 1. Mercury ...
... mercury and pla- tina ; the former being scarcely ever seen in a solid form , and the latter almost as difficult of fusion . The metals , therefore , may be ranked in this order , according to their degrees of fusi- bility . 1. Mercury ...
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... mercury flies off from the charcoal with a moderate heat , the fixed heterogeneous matters remaining behind . When calcined , it is easily reduced and dissipated , and the fluxes take it up with effervescence ; but it is soon to- tally ...
... mercury flies off from the charcoal with a moderate heat , the fixed heterogeneous matters remaining behind . When calcined , it is easily reduced and dissipated , and the fluxes take it up with effervescence ; but it is soon to- tally ...
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... mercury is poured which is to be distri- buted equally over the leaf with a hare's foot , or cotton : over this is laid a clean paper , and over that the glass plate , which is pressed down with the right - hand , and the paper drawn ...
... mercury is poured which is to be distri- buted equally over the leaf with a hare's foot , or cotton : over this is laid a clean paper , and over that the glass plate , which is pressed down with the right - hand , and the paper drawn ...
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... mercury in the vacuum of thermometers has even been frozen , though it requires a vastly greater degree of cold to freeze mercury than water . Water which has been boiled freezes more readily than that which has not been boiled ; and a ...
... mercury in the vacuum of thermometers has even been frozen , though it requires a vastly greater degree of cold to freeze mercury than water . Water which has been boiled freezes more readily than that which has not been boiled ; and a ...
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