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| Title | A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the Principles of the Science are Investigated Anew and Its Applications to the Phenomena of Nature, Medicine, Mineralogy, Agriculture, and Manufactures Detailed, Volume 2 A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the Principles of the Science are Investigated Anew and Its Applications to the Phenomena of Nature, Medicine, Mineralogy, Agriculture, and Manufactures Detailed, Andrew Ure |
| Author | Andrew Ure |
| Publisher | Robert Desilver, 1821 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2005 |
| Length | 14 pages |
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