The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4 |
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... metals , and lead to the suspicion that it may be a metallic oxide . The gadolinite is the only fossil that can be considered as belonging to the genus of which this earth is the base , for the yttro- tantalite contains it in small ...
... metals , and lead to the suspicion that it may be a metallic oxide . The gadolinite is the only fossil that can be considered as belonging to the genus of which this earth is the base , for the yttro- tantalite contains it in small ...
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... metals . A forge for many , or most of the purposes in which the blast heat of a small fire is required ; and various other tools and . implements , not peculiar to chemistry . Messrs . Aikin , in their Chemical Dicti- onary , give the ...
... metals . A forge for many , or most of the purposes in which the blast heat of a small fire is required ; and various other tools and . implements , not peculiar to chemistry . Messrs . Aikin , in their Chemical Dicti- onary , give the ...
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... metal , and one or two of Wedgwood ware . A silver crucible and spatula . A platina crucible and spatula . A jointed iron tube for conveying gases . The following articles in glass : Retorts of different sizes , plain and stop- pered ...
... metal , and one or two of Wedgwood ware . A silver crucible and spatula . A platina crucible and spatula . A jointed iron tube for conveying gases . The following articles in glass : Retorts of different sizes , plain and stop- pered ...
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... metal , or of brine , and very frequently of water . The evaporable liquids form a bath which cannot be heated beyond their respective boiling points ; and the other baths , the most common of which is that of sand , are chiefly ...
... metal , or of brine , and very frequently of water . The evaporable liquids form a bath which cannot be heated beyond their respective boiling points ; and the other baths , the most common of which is that of sand , are chiefly ...
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... metal sides of the furnace , by means of cautious beating , forms a firm stratum , which is the most im- perfect conductor of heat of all that he had tried . When this layer of charcoal is de- fended from the action of the air by a ...
... metal sides of the furnace , by means of cautious beating , forms a firm stratum , which is the most im- perfect conductor of heat of all that he had tried . When this layer of charcoal is de- fended from the action of the air by a ...
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