American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Band 2Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... heat to the lower one . The arsenic will be reduced , and will be found lining the inside of the upper crucible , in a state of metallic brilliancy . Arsenic is oxidized by mere exposure to the atmosphere . It soon becomes tarnished ...
... heat to the lower one . The arsenic will be reduced , and will be found lining the inside of the upper crucible , in a state of metallic brilliancy . Arsenic is oxidized by mere exposure to the atmosphere . It soon becomes tarnished ...
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... heat decomposes them by subliming the oxide , and almost all the acids preci- pitate the arsenic in the form of a white powder . The earthy arsenites , as far as they have been examined , are insoluble powders , which is the reason why ...
... heat decomposes them by subliming the oxide , and almost all the acids preci- pitate the arsenic in the form of a white powder . The earthy arsenites , as far as they have been examined , are insoluble powders , which is the reason why ...
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... heat , as often as these seasons return ; even if , after he has procured bread for his present household , he should convert a surplus into money , and lay it up for his children . But where the trees are once introduced in a ...
... heat , as often as these seasons return ; even if , after he has procured bread for his present household , he should convert a surplus into money , and lay it up for his children . But where the trees are once introduced in a ...
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... heat , and formed a blackish brown solution , which , by gentle evaporation , left the as- phaltum in the state of a black brown shining varnish . The solution in ether was of a pale brown red colour ; and when evaporated , the ...
... heat , and formed a blackish brown solution , which , by gentle evaporation , left the as- phaltum in the state of a black brown shining varnish . The solution in ether was of a pale brown red colour ; and when evaporated , the ...
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... heat sufficient for the fusion of gold , so that its mouth may come in contact with the door , at the side to which ... heat a portion of it is volatilized , as Mr. Tillet found that a button of pure silver , kept in a very high heat ...
... heat sufficient for the fusion of gold , so that its mouth may come in contact with the door , at the side to which ... heat a portion of it is volatilized , as Mr. Tillet found that a button of pure silver , kept in a very high heat ...
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Seite 22 - The ideas of -goblins and sprites have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Seite 22 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of ; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together...