British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 |
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... colour of vegetable blues to red ; has no smell , but a very acid taste . When it is exposed to the air it attracts moisture , and is converted into a thick viscid fluid , like oil . It is very soluble in water . When in the form of dry ...
... colour of vegetable blues to red ; has no smell , but a very acid taste . When it is exposed to the air it attracts moisture , and is converted into a thick viscid fluid , like oil . It is very soluble in water . When in the form of dry ...
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... colours . The phosphorous acid is not altered by light . When exposed to heat in a retort , part of the water combined with it is first driven off , and when it is concentrated , bubbles of air suddenly rise to the surface , and collect ...
... colours . The phosphorous acid is not altered by light . When exposed to heat in a retort , part of the water combined with it is first driven off , and when it is concentrated , bubbles of air suddenly rise to the surface , and collect ...
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... colour , which appears to be an incipient combustion . It is therefore necessary to preserve it in a dark place . At the temperature of 999 it becomes liquid , and if air be entirely excluded , it evaporates at 219o , and boils at 554 ...
... colour , which appears to be an incipient combustion . It is therefore necessary to preserve it in a dark place . At the temperature of 999 it becomes liquid , and if air be entirely excluded , it evaporates at 219o , and boils at 554 ...
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... colour , heat the interior air , which causes the liquor to descend at first with rapidity in the cor- responding ... coloured rays which compose the solar spectrum , caused a beam of light to pass through a prism of flint glass ; and ...
... colour , heat the interior air , which causes the liquor to descend at first with rapidity in the cor- responding ... coloured rays which compose the solar spectrum , caused a beam of light to pass through a prism of flint glass ; and ...
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... colour ; they begin to appear in the autumn , continue in beauty all the winter ; they decay in spring ; it grows naturally at the Cape of Good Hope ; it also occupies large tracts of ground about Lisbon , in the same manner as many ...
... colour ; they begin to appear in the autumn , continue in beauty all the winter ; they decay in spring ; it grows naturally at the Cape of Good Hope ; it also occupies large tracts of ground about Lisbon , in the same manner as many ...
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