Annals of Philosophy, Volume 6Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Science |
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... probably explode the whole ; but what a combination of circumstances must exist to produce the same effect with a gasometer filled with carbu retted hydrogen . In that state it is perfectly harmless ; a candle may be taken into a ...
... probably explode the whole ; but what a combination of circumstances must exist to produce the same effect with a gasometer filled with carbu retted hydrogen . In that state it is perfectly harmless ; a candle may be taken into a ...
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... probably show , that most of the substances named petrosilex , corneenne , saussurite , jade , and even flinty slate , are in fact only admixtures of this nature , in which felspar varying from its more compact and semitransparent to ...
... probably show , that most of the substances named petrosilex , corneenne , saussurite , jade , and even flinty slate , are in fact only admixtures of this nature , in which felspar varying from its more compact and semitransparent to ...
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... probably of chlorite ; a circumstance observable also in the killas of Wheal Maudlin ; and in that which succeeds the granite near Ivy Bridge ; though , in these atter cases , it is possible that the penetrating matter may be hornblende ...
... probably of chlorite ; a circumstance observable also in the killas of Wheal Maudlin ; and in that which succeeds the granite near Ivy Bridge ; though , in these atter cases , it is possible that the penetrating matter may be hornblende ...
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... ( probably indeed from materials collected before its publication ) , appears to hold nearly the same view . " There is much reason ( he writes ) to consider it ( killas ) as an intimate mixture of quartz with mica , talc , chlorite , and ...
... ( probably indeed from materials collected before its publication ) , appears to hold nearly the same view . " There is much reason ( he writes ) to consider it ( killas ) as an intimate mixture of quartz with mica , talc , chlorite , and ...
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... probably occa- sions the measurements on the cleavage planes not accurately to agree . This is also the case with many other of the factitious salts . M on plane parallel to ƒ M on e • T on e T on f e on f . M on d d on d ...
... probably occa- sions the measurements on the cleavage planes not accurately to agree . This is also the case with many other of the factitious salts . M on plane parallel to ƒ M on e • T on e T on f e on f . M on d d on d ...
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Page 346 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Page 110 - From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that " the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe...
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Page 468 - ... fracture and a vitreous lustre. These results were nearly uniform, in various trials ; and every thing seems to indicate that were the diamond a good conductor, it would be melted by the deflagrator ; and were it incombustible, a globule would be obtained by the compound blow-pipe.
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Page 348 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 314 - It is easily condensed by inverting a glass over the fume as it rises, when it soon renders the glass opaque with a white lining. Although there was a distinct and peculiar odour in the fume, I found that the condensed matter was tasteless, and that it did not effervesce with acids, or affect the test colours for alkalies. Besides as it is produced apparently in greater quantity, when both poles are terminated by plumbago, it seems possible that it is white volatilized carbon, giving origin, by its...
Page 315 - ... former experiments; they were easily detached from the plumbago by the slightest touch from the point of a knife, and when collected in a white porcelain dish, they rolled about like shot, when the vessel was turned one way and another. To detach any portions of unmelted plumbago which might adhere to them I carefully rubbed them between my thumb and finger in the palm of my hand. I then placed them upon a fragment of wedgewood ware, floated in a dish of mercury, and slid over them a small jar...