American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... glass , marble , and precious stones . EMETIC , a medicine which induces vomiting . EMETIC tartar , the old name for tar- trite of antimony . EMOLLIENTS . See PHARMACY . EMPETRUM , in botany , heath , a ge- nus of the Dioecia Triandria ...
... glass , marble , and precious stones . EMETIC , a medicine which induces vomiting . EMETIC tartar , the old name for tar- trite of antimony . EMOLLIENTS . See PHARMACY . EMPETRUM , in botany , heath , a ge- nus of the Dioecia Triandria ...
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... glass , with the notes of Merret and Kunckel , afford a variety of good receipts for making enamels , though much still remains to be done in this art . The art is indeed retarded by the considerable advantages the enameller derives ...
... glass , with the notes of Merret and Kunckel , afford a variety of good receipts for making enamels , though much still remains to be done in this art . The art is indeed retarded by the considerable advantages the enameller derives ...
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... glass from flying about . There are no means of ex- plaining the point at which the tritura- tion ought to be given up , as this can be learned only by experience . Some ena- meis require to be very finely triturated ; but others may be ...
... glass from flying about . There are no means of ex- plaining the point at which the tritura- tion ought to be given up , as this can be learned only by experience . Some ena- meis require to be very finely triturated ; but others may be ...
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... glass plate . The work is then cemented to square piece of wood , with a mixture of resin and brickdust , and by this means fixed in a vice . a The first operation of polishing is made by rubbing the work with rotten- stone upon a small ...
... glass plate . The work is then cemented to square piece of wood , with a mixture of resin and brickdust , and by this means fixed in a vice . a The first operation of polishing is made by rubbing the work with rotten- stone upon a small ...
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... glass , ground and applied in the same way , required a much stronger heat . 4. Five parts of fluor spar , five of gyp- sum , two of minium , two of flint glass , half a part of borax , the same of oxide of tin , and one - twenty ...
... glass , ground and applied in the same way , required a much stronger heat . 4. Five parts of fluor spar , five of gyp- sum , two of minium , two of flint glass , half a part of borax , the same of oxide of tin , and one - twenty ...
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