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... earth , to conditions of pressure and temperature , which we cannot produce by art , supply us with abundant reasons for believing them to be the products of pre - existing matter , and not natural elements distinct from one another ...
... earth , to conditions of pressure and temperature , which we cannot produce by art , supply us with abundant reasons for believing them to be the products of pre - existing matter , and not natural elements distinct from one another ...
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... earth yttria , and it has been found in a few minerals of the rarest species . From these minerals tantalic acid , Ta O3 , is obtained , and from this acid the metal . It is in the form of a black pow- der , which , under the burnisher ...
... earth yttria , and it has been found in a few minerals of the rarest species . From these minerals tantalic acid , Ta O3 , is obtained , and from this acid the metal . It is in the form of a black pow- der , which , under the burnisher ...
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... earth was once covered with a fluid , holding silica as well as other substances in solution . Silica exhibits feeble acid characters . It does not even redden the blue colour of plants , and yet it stands in the re- lation of an acid ...
... earth was once covered with a fluid , holding silica as well as other substances in solution . Silica exhibits feeble acid characters . It does not even redden the blue colour of plants , and yet it stands in the re- lation of an acid ...
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... earth . Further relations between silica and alumina conduct us , by an irresistible analogy , to the conclusion , that their bases , silicium and aluminum , are closely connected as natural bodies . Silicium combines with chlorine ...
... earth . Further relations between silica and alumina conduct us , by an irresistible analogy , to the conclusion , that their bases , silicium and aluminum , are closely connected as natural bodies . Silicium combines with chlorine ...
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... earth ; and it is a supposition not devoid of probability , that silica , act- ed upon by the fibrils of the roots , furnishes carbon . That the roots of plants are capable of acting upon the hardest rocks appears from this , that a ...
... earth ; and it is a supposition not devoid of probability , that silica , act- ed upon by the fibrils of the roots , furnishes carbon . That the roots of plants are capable of acting upon the hardest rocks appears from this , that a ...
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