The Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts, Volume 5John Murray, 1818 |
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... crystal , the green jargon , and the ruby , or rock- crystal , with a foil underneath it , to represent this precious stone . It is covered with a small square wooden building , which we found ( it being the season of the pilgrimage ) ...
... crystal , the green jargon , and the ruby , or rock- crystal , with a foil underneath it , to represent this precious stone . It is covered with a small square wooden building , which we found ( it being the season of the pilgrimage ) ...
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... crystals , aggre- gated into a columnar form . It is a soft , brittle , and heavy ore , and easily furnishes a metallic globule by the blowpipe . It generally contains about 90 per cent . of carbonate Report of Mr. Brande's Lectures ...
... crystals , aggre- gated into a columnar form . It is a soft , brittle , and heavy ore , and easily furnishes a metallic globule by the blowpipe . It generally contains about 90 per cent . of carbonate Report of Mr. Brande's Lectures ...
Page 70
... crystals . Before the blowpipe it melts into a polyhedral globule . Yorkshire , Scot- land , Germany , and Siberia , afford fine specimens . One variety is brown , and occurs massive and crystallized ; it is found in Hungary , Saxony ...
... crystals . Before the blowpipe it melts into a polyhedral globule . Yorkshire , Scot- land , Germany , and Siberia , afford fine specimens . One variety is brown , and occurs massive and crystallized ; it is found in Hungary , Saxony ...
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... crystals had formed in it ; some of them being as much as a quarter of an inch in width . Their general form was that of a flat rhomboid , but sometimes two acute angles of the rhomboid were wanting , and then the crystals looked like ...
... crystals had formed in it ; some of them being as much as a quarter of an inch in width . Their general form was that of a flat rhomboid , but sometimes two acute angles of the rhomboid were wanting , and then the crystals looked like ...
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... crystals of calomel were introduced into ammoniacal gas ; they immediately blackened on the surface , and gas was absorbed . The action appeared to be exactly similar to that exerted when calomel is thrown into solution of ammonia . A ...
... crystals of calomel were introduced into ammoniacal gas ; they immediately blackened on the surface , and gas was absorbed . The action appeared to be exactly similar to that exerted when calomel is thrown into solution of ammonia . A ...
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