Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Том 4 |
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... clafs of bodies intermediate betwixt folids and fluids , viz . the viscous , whofe particles attract each other more ftrongly than the fluids , and not fo ftrongly as the folids . 4X If we imagine the particles to be fo formed as to ...
... clafs of bodies intermediate betwixt folids and fluids , viz . the viscous , whofe particles attract each other more ftrongly than the fluids , and not fo ftrongly as the folids . 4X If we imagine the particles to be fo formed as to ...
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... clafs be very foluble in water , the compounds formed of them are very in- foluble in that fluid , i . e . that though alkalies or acids be fingly very foluble in water , the neutral falts formed by them are very infoluble ; and that ...
... clafs be very foluble in water , the compounds formed of them are very in- foluble in that fluid , i . e . that though alkalies or acids be fingly very foluble in water , the neutral falts formed by them are very infoluble ; and that ...
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... clafs her pro- ductions . She places before us innumerable indivi- duals , and leaves us to claffify them according to the purpose which we have in view . If nature had formed plants into claffes , orders , and genera , the botanist ...
... clafs her pro- ductions . She places before us innumerable indivi- duals , and leaves us to claffify them according to the purpose which we have in view . If nature had formed plants into claffes , orders , and genera , the botanist ...
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... clafs the place of infertion is more to be relied on than the number of the ftamens , for they are sometimes less than 20 , often more . The 13th clafs comprehends thofe that have more than 20 ftamens attached to the recep- tacle . See ...
... clafs the place of infertion is more to be relied on than the number of the ftamens , for they are sometimes less than 20 , often more . The 13th clafs comprehends thofe that have more than 20 ftamens attached to the recep- tacle . See ...
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... clafs the ftamens are united by their fila- ments into one fet , forming a cafe round the lower part of the piftils , but feparating at the top . A geranium forms a fpecimen of this clafs . In the 17th the corollas are papilionaceous ...
... clafs the ftamens are united by their fila- ments into one fet , forming a cafe round the lower part of the piftils , but feparating at the top . A geranium forms a fpecimen of this clafs . In the 17th the corollas are papilionaceous ...
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