The Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts, Volume 5John Murray, 1818 - Science |
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... bodies , and yet not become luminous itself ; as may be easily shewn , by holding a piece of thin platinum wire over the chimney of an Argand lamp fed with spirit of wine , or even by the com- mon expedient of lighting a piece of paper ...
... bodies , and yet not become luminous itself ; as may be easily shewn , by holding a piece of thin platinum wire over the chimney of an Argand lamp fed with spirit of wine , or even by the com- mon expedient of lighting a piece of paper ...
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... bodies . Dr. Halley calculated the height of a meteor at ninety miles ; and the great American meteor which threw down showers of stones , was esti- mated at seventeen miles high . The velocity of motion in these bodies must in all ...
... bodies . Dr. Halley calculated the height of a meteor at ninety miles ; and the great American meteor which threw down showers of stones , was esti- mated at seventeen miles high . The velocity of motion in these bodies must in all ...
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... in our Quarterly Re- ports of the Proceedings of the Royal Society . A paper by Sir W. Herschell , " on the Arrange- ment of Celestial Bodies in Space , and on the Extent and Condition of the Milky Way , " and PREFACE . ix.
... in our Quarterly Re- ports of the Proceedings of the Royal Society . A paper by Sir W. Herschell , " on the Arrange- ment of Celestial Bodies in Space , and on the Extent and Condition of the Milky Way , " and PREFACE . ix.
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... bodies ; not to mention other circum- stances which also must have co - operated , as the sudden trans- ition , as it were , from a temperature of 80 ° to one of 51 ° ; a brisk wind , which blew when we were on the top ; and the ...
... bodies ; not to mention other circum- stances which also must have co - operated , as the sudden trans- ition , as it were , from a temperature of 80 ° to one of 51 ° ; a brisk wind , which blew when we were on the top ; and the ...
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... bodies . The pure metal may be procured by dissolving the ore in dilute nitro - muriatic acid , precipitating 64 Account of the Mineral Springs of Caldas , & c . Report of Mr Brande's Lectures on Mineralogical Che- mistry, delivered in ...
... bodies . The pure metal may be procured by dissolving the ore in dilute nitro - muriatic acid , precipitating 64 Account of the Mineral Springs of Caldas , & c . Report of Mr Brande's Lectures on Mineralogical Che- mistry, delivered in ...
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