Cyclopadic Science SimplifiedF. Warne and Company, 1869 - 685 pages |
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... fact that Sir Isaac Newton considered , from the experiments he had tried with various prisms , that dispersion was proportioned to refraction , and he believed that all substances had the same chromatic aberrations when formed into ...
... fact that Sir Isaac Newton considered , from the experiments he had tried with various prisms , that dispersion was proportioned to refraction , and he believed that all substances had the same chromatic aberrations when formed into ...
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... fact explains why platinum wire can be melted into glass tubes made of glass not containing lead , such as the hard German glass , without causing the tubes to crack , either by expansion or contraction , at the points where the wires ...
... fact explains why platinum wire can be melted into glass tubes made of glass not containing lead , such as the hard German glass , without causing the tubes to crack , either by expansion or contraction , at the points where the wires ...
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... fact , so suggestive of the explanation of some of the elaborate processes which go on in the economy of the human body . Dutrochet's instrument consisted virtually of a glass funnel with a long and narrow tube . The mouth of the funnel ...
... fact , so suggestive of the explanation of some of the elaborate processes which go on in the economy of the human body . Dutrochet's instrument consisted virtually of a glass funnel with a long and narrow tube . The mouth of the funnel ...
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