The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... PHE- NOMENA : New Comets ; Meteors ; Remarkable Temperatures ; with a Meteorogical Summary for the Year OBITUARY of Persons eminent in Science or Art , 1813 242-254 255-278 279-285 THE FRONTISPIECE . This Portrait of DR . JUSTUS LIEBIG.
... PHE- NOMENA : New Comets ; Meteors ; Remarkable Temperatures ; with a Meteorogical Summary for the Year OBITUARY of Persons eminent in Science or Art , 1813 242-254 255-278 279-285 THE FRONTISPIECE . This Portrait of DR . JUSTUS LIEBIG.
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... god rid of the difficulty . " I have since been informed , that in experiments tried at Calcutta , a very energetic battery lost half its power when the temperature fell from 120 ° to 60 ' of Fahr . When 26 YEAR - BOOK OF FACTS .
... god rid of the difficulty . " I have since been informed , that in experiments tried at Calcutta , a very energetic battery lost half its power when the temperature fell from 120 ° to 60 ' of Fahr . When 26 YEAR - BOOK OF FACTS .
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... temperature . " A very minute account of this stupendous work , with nine clever engravings , will be found in the Illustrated London News , No. 40 . On April 18 , another of these extensive " blowings - up " of Dover cliffs came off at ...
... temperature . " A very minute account of this stupendous work , with nine clever engravings , will be found in the Illustrated London News , No. 40 . On April 18 , another of these extensive " blowings - up " of Dover cliffs came off at ...
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... temperature as any produced in the common way . It is well known that the steam of certain liquids , when reaching the still- head ( whence it is generally made to pass direct into the narrow coil pipe ) , remains impregnated with a ...
... temperature as any produced in the common way . It is well known that the steam of certain liquids , when reaching the still- head ( whence it is generally made to pass direct into the narrow coil pipe ) , remains impregnated with a ...
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... temperature of the sea is rarely under 40 deg . Fahr .; at that temperature , twenty hours ' exposure could be easily borne ; the supply of animal heat from respiration , its only source , being unchecked , the lungs are kept un ...
... temperature of the sea is rarely under 40 deg . Fahr .; at that temperature , twenty hours ' exposure could be easily borne ; the supply of animal heat from respiration , its only source , being unchecked , the lungs are kept un ...
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