The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Հատոր 42A. and C. Black, 1847 |
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... magnesia be present in admixture with alumina and phosphate of lime , it may easily be detected under the microscope . Before the addition of the acid , its well - marked crystals will be seen , which after that addition will disappear ...
... magnesia be present in admixture with alumina and phosphate of lime , it may easily be detected under the microscope . Before the addition of the acid , its well - marked crystals will be seen , which after that addition will disappear ...
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... magnesia , which probably exist in the manure in the state of carbonates . The part resisting the action of water and acids , consists princi- pally of vegetable fibre and silicious matter , and is not in- considerable . This ...
... magnesia , which probably exist in the manure in the state of carbonates . The part resisting the action of water and acids , consists princi- pally of vegetable fibre and silicious matter , and is not in- considerable . This ...
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... Magnesia , 8.96 Potash , 6.80 Water , 4.80 100.16 Ottrelite was discovered by M. Desclozeaux , and analysed by M. Damour , in 1842. A full description of it is given in the Annales des Mines , for that year , vol . ii . p . 357. It ...
... Magnesia , 8.96 Potash , 6.80 Water , 4.80 100.16 Ottrelite was discovered by M. Desclozeaux , and analysed by M. Damour , in 1842. A full description of it is given in the Annales des Mines , for that year , vol . ii . p . 357. It ...
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... magnesia and iron , as isomorphous with each other . Ottrelite , also , is not easily separated from its matrix , but the larger size of its plates would seem to render it more easy to obtain pure specimens for analysis ; and it is to ...
... magnesia and iron , as isomorphous with each other . Ottrelite , also , is not easily separated from its matrix , but the larger size of its plates would seem to render it more easy to obtain pure specimens for analysis ; and it is to ...
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... Magnesia , 2.22 • 76 8.72 1 Protoxide of iron , 4.55 1.04 Dr Thomson , the only chemist who has analysed Dysluite , reckons all the iron as peroxide , and as the principal basic constituent of the mineral , which , in his view ...
... Magnesia , 2.22 • 76 8.72 1 Protoxide of iron , 4.55 1.04 Dr Thomson , the only chemist who has analysed Dysluite , reckons all the iron as peroxide , and as the principal basic constituent of the mineral , which , in his view ...
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Էջ 211 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Էջ 45 - The reason of the difference between the solar and sidereal day is, that as the earth advances almost a degree eastward in its orbit, in the same time that it turns eastward round its axis, it must make more than a complete rotation before it can come into the same position with the sun that it had the day before...
Էջ 383 - I obtained a great many specimens, and found them to vary from 1 to 2J inches across. The whole plant gives out at night a bright phosphorescent light, of a pale greenish hue, similar to that emitted by the larger fire-flies, or by those curious soft-bodied marine animals, the Pyrosoma. From this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants
Էջ 378 - The general aspect of the southern circumpolar region, including in that expression 60° or 70° of SPD, is in a high degree rich and magnificent, owing to the superior brilliancy and larger development of the Milky Way : which, from the constellation of Orion to that of Antinous, is...
Էջ 209 - The entire destruction of the •wood that formerly covered the mountains, and the utter neglect of the terraces which supported the soil upon steep declivities, have given full scope to the rains, which have left many tracts of bare rock where formerly were vineyards and cornfields.
Էջ 115 - ... angles and they had a slight degree of curvature corresponding with that of the circle from which they were cut. They were piled upon each other exactly like courses of hewn stone...
Էջ 307 - Pasco throw masticated coca on hard veins of metal, in the belief that it softens the ore, and renders it more easy to work. The origin of this custom is easily explained, when it is recollected that, in the time of the Incas, it was believed that the...
Էջ 113 - The outside, covered with earth, had nearly a hemispherical form, and round its base there were ranged the skulls of twenty-one whales. There was a square hole in the roof, and the central log of the floor had a basin-shaped cavity, one foot in diameter, which was, perhaps, intended for a lamp. The general attention to comfort in the construction of the village, and the erection of a building of such magnitude, requiring an union of purpose in a considerable number of people, are evidences of no...
Էջ 226 - ... head falls prone to the bottom ; if the right pectoral fin only be cut off, the fish leans to that side ; if the ventral fin on...
Էջ 382 - One dark night, about the beginning of December, while passing along the streets of the Villa de Natividade, I observed some boys amusing themselves with some luminous object, which I at first supposed to be a kind of large fire-fly ; but on making inquiry, I found it to be a beautiful phosphorescent fungus, and was told that it grew abundantly in the neighbourhood on the decaying leaves of a dwarf palm.