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... reasons for believing a body to be de- rived from others more simple than itself , are founded on far stronger analogies than any which have yet conducted us to the opposite conclusion . If it can be shewn that the bodies which we term ...
... reasons for believing a body to be de- rived from others more simple than itself , are founded on far stronger analogies than any which have yet conducted us to the opposite conclusion . If it can be shewn that the bodies which we term ...
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... reasons for believing them to be the products of pre - existing matter , and not natural elements distinct from one another , and from other bodies , in their molecular constitution . The op- posite conclusion arrived at , should ...
... reasons for believing them to be the products of pre - existing matter , and not natural elements distinct from one another , and from other bodies , in their molecular constitution . The op- posite conclusion arrived at , should ...
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... reason for believing , that nitrogen is a compound body , we need not complicate our argument by admitting it into the number of assumed elements ; but may proceed at once on the supposition , that all bodies may be resolved into three ...
... reason for believing , that nitrogen is a compound body , we need not complicate our argument by admitting it into the number of assumed elements ; but may proceed at once on the supposition , that all bodies may be resolved into three ...
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... reason , founding on the physical and chemical characters of this substance , for as- suming that carbon is a simple body , than that oxygen and nitrogen are simple bodies . Carbon may be derived from hydrogen : nay , hydrogen itself ...
... reason , founding on the physical and chemical characters of this substance , for as- suming that carbon is a simple body , than that oxygen and nitrogen are simple bodies . Carbon may be derived from hydrogen : nay , hydrogen itself ...
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... held to be metallic ; and therefore we have no reason to class hydrogen with the metals , in preference to other bodies , with which it is equally associated . II . CARBON . Carbon , unlike to hydrogen , HYDROGEN . 29.
... held to be metallic ; and therefore we have no reason to class hydrogen with the metals , in preference to other bodies , with which it is equally associated . II . CARBON . Carbon , unlike to hydrogen , HYDROGEN . 29.
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