Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 18, Part 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... commonly employed in our mechanics , and other structures Materials where they are expofed to this kind of ftrain . Thefe must be deduced folely from experiment . Therefore they The cohe- mult be confidered as no more than general ...
... commonly employed in our mechanics , and other structures Materials where they are expofed to this kind of ftrain . Thefe must be deduced folely from experiment . Therefore they The cohe- mult be confidered as no more than general ...
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... commonly called the white or blea , is also weaker than the reft ; and the wood gra- dually increases in ftrength as we recede from the centre to the blea . 3. The wood is ftronger in the middle of the trunk than at the springing of the ...
... commonly called the white or blea , is also weaker than the reft ; and the wood gra- dually increases in ftrength as we recede from the centre to the blea . 3. The wood is ftronger in the middle of the trunk than at the springing of the ...
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... commonly broken near the wall , and the inter- tranfverfe mediate part has performed the functions of a lever . It fometimes , though rarely , happens that the pin in the joint of a pair of pincers or fciffars is cut through by the ...
... commonly broken near the wall , and the inter- tranfverfe mediate part has performed the functions of a lever . It fometimes , though rarely , happens that the pin in the joint of a pair of pincers or fciffars is cut through by the ...
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... commonly called the king's evil . See MEDICINE , no 349 . n ° STRUMPFIA , in botany ; a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of fyngenefia , and to the order of monogamia . The calyx is quinquedentate and fuperior ; the corolla is ...
... commonly called the king's evil . See MEDICINE , no 349 . n ° STRUMPFIA , in botany ; a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of fyngenefia , and to the order of monogamia . The calyx is quinquedentate and fuperior ; the corolla is ...
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... commonly ufed in the London glafs - houses , together with clay and every other matter fpecifically lighter than fand , may be washed away with the ftream , whilft the purer and coarser fand , which passes through the fieve , fubfides ...
... commonly ufed in the London glafs - houses , together with clay and every other matter fpecifically lighter than fand , may be washed away with the ftream , whilft the purer and coarser fand , which passes through the fieve , fubfides ...
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