Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... plant is due to some excitement of luminous power , and is stopped by the actinic force . 3. Formation of Chloro ... Plants . Bending to the blue light , and reced- ing from the red , proving the excitement of actinic force . - London ...
... plant is due to some excitement of luminous power , and is stopped by the actinic force . 3. Formation of Chloro ... Plants . Bending to the blue light , and reced- ing from the red , proving the excitement of actinic force . - London ...
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... plants and fibrine , gluten , legumine , silk , wool , feathers , horn , epidermis , and gelatine are equally affected . This mercurial solution is most readily prepared by dissolving mer- cury in its weight of nitric acid in the cold ...
... plants and fibrine , gluten , legumine , silk , wool , feathers , horn , epidermis , and gelatine are equally affected . This mercurial solution is most readily prepared by dissolving mer- cury in its weight of nitric acid in the cold ...
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... PLANT . A RECENT chemical journal contains the records of a series of in- teresting experiments on the necessary inorganic constituents of the oat plant . Single grains were sown in pure charcoal , prepared from sugar , contained in ...
... PLANT . A RECENT chemical journal contains the records of a series of in- teresting experiments on the necessary inorganic constituents of the oat plant . Single grains were sown in pure charcoal , prepared from sugar , contained in ...
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... plants , so called , and animalcula which evolve oxygen , are abundant in open waters in warm weather only , and of course when the capacity of water to retain air in solution is lowest ; so that , al- though oxygen is produced in open ...
... plants , so called , and animalcula which evolve oxygen , are abundant in open waters in warm weather only , and of course when the capacity of water to retain air in solution is lowest ; so that , al- though oxygen is produced in open ...
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... plants . Within twenty years oysters could be obtained here , and their shells are still abundant . In the same vicinity are many other similar ponds , and in many cases the process may now be seen going on . The sea washes up a sand ...
... plants . Within twenty years oysters could be obtained here , and their shells are still abundant . In the same vicinity are many other similar ponds , and in many cases the process may now be seen going on . The sea washes up a sand ...
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Página 355 - Mayne, like a shewer from the South to the North, and from the North to the West, and then downe to the South againe.
Página 237 - We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the sea. It slightly decreases in size upwards, crumbles at the top, and is one entire mass of crystallization.
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Página 147 - Sometimes it will be more convenient to arrange the two charts in symmetrical positions, one to the left and the other to the right of the subject's median plane, and with a slight inclination toward this plane.