A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the Principles of the Science are Investigated Anew and Its Applications to the Phenomena of Nature, Medicine, Mineralogy, Agriculture, and Manufactures Detailed, Volume 1 |
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... animal king- dom , with the subordinate animal products and adipocere . The article analysis may be now consulted ; then mineral WATERS ; equivalents ( chemical ) ; and analysis of ores . The mineralogical department should be commenced ...
... animal king- dom , with the subordinate animal products and adipocere . The article analysis may be now consulted ; then mineral WATERS ; equivalents ( chemical ) ; and analysis of ores . The mineralogical department should be commenced ...
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... animal juices , or infusions . The sud- denness with which this change is effected during a thunder storm , even in corked bottles , has not been accounted for . In morbid states of the stomach , also , it pro- ceeds with astonishing ...
... animal juices , or infusions . The sud- denness with which this change is effected during a thunder storm , even in corked bottles , has not been accounted for . In morbid states of the stomach , also , it pro- ceeds with astonishing ...
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... animal kingdom . But a more spe- cific distribution is now requisite . They have also been arranged into those which have a single , and those which have a com- pound basis or radical . But this arrange- ment is not only vague , but ...
... animal kingdom . But a more spe- cific distribution is now requisite . They have also been arranged into those which have a single , and those which have a com- pound basis or radical . But this arrange- ment is not only vague , but ...
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... animal , sub- jected in close vessels to a red heat , yield it copiously . it is the result likewise of a spon- taneous fermentation , to which liquid veget- able , and animal matters are liable . Strong acids , as the sulphuric and ...
... animal , sub- jected in close vessels to a red heat , yield it copiously . it is the result likewise of a spon- taneous fermentation , to which liquid veget- able , and animal matters are liable . Strong acids , as the sulphuric and ...
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... animal food ; but the empyreumatic taint it communi- cates to bodies immersed in it , is not quite removed by their subsequent ebullition in water . See Acid , ( Pyrolignous ) . Acetic acid and common vinegar are sometimes fraudulently ...
... animal food ; but the empyreumatic taint it communi- cates to bodies immersed in it , is not quite removed by their subsequent ebullition in water . See Acid , ( Pyrolignous ) . Acetic acid and common vinegar are sometimes fraudulently ...
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Page 11 - Monge has discovered that the pyroligneous acid obtained from the distillation of wood has the property of preventing the decomposition and putrefaction of animal substances. It is sufficient to plunge meat for a few moments into this acid, even slightly empyreumatic, to preserve it as long as you please.
Page 11 - The crude pyrolignous acid is rectified by a second distillation in a copper still, in the body of which about 20 gallons of viscid tarry matter are left from every 100. It has now become a transparent brown vinegar, having a considerable empyrcumatic smell, and a sp.