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... similar to that of making gun - cotton , bids fair to rival the old explosive for certain purposes . Nitroglycerine and gun - paper have also been successfully introduced , the former for blasting , and the latter for small arms . In ...
... similar to that of making gun - cotton , bids fair to rival the old explosive for certain purposes . Nitroglycerine and gun - paper have also been successfully introduced , the former for blasting , and the latter for small arms . In ...
Pagina vii
... similar to those now in operation . With this , since the researches of Darwin , has become connected the ques- tion , whether , in a geological formation unmistakably continu- ous , the different characters of the fossils represent ...
... similar to those now in operation . With this , since the researches of Darwin , has become connected the ques- tion , whether , in a geological formation unmistakably continu- ous , the different characters of the fossils represent ...
Pagina x
... , but is studded with smaller planets between the larger and more visible masses . Such as have fallen upon the earth give on analysis metals and . oxides similar to those which belong to our own X NOTES BY THE EDITOR.
... , but is studded with smaller planets between the larger and more visible masses . Such as have fallen upon the earth give on analysis metals and . oxides similar to those which belong to our own X NOTES BY THE EDITOR.
Pagina xi
. oxides similar to those which belong to our own planet . M. Dau- brée , before the French Academy , has given the chemical and mineralogical characters of meteorites , and finds that ... similar to those which belong to our own planet...
. oxides similar to those which belong to our own planet . M. Dau- brée , before the French Academy , has given the chemical and mineralogical characters of meteorites , and finds that ... similar to those which belong to our own planet...
Pagina 23
... similar to but much larger than Foilhommerum Bay , on the Irish end of the cable ; this is more sheltered than Bull's Bay , where the cable of 1858 was successfully landed . The European shore end of the cable of 1866 was landed at ...
... similar to but much larger than Foilhommerum Bay , on the Irish end of the cable ; this is more sheltered than Bull's Bay , where the cable of 1858 was successfully landed . The European shore end of the cable of 1866 was landed at ...
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Pagina 261 - a special mineralization producing a bituminous matter instead of coal or lignite. This operation is not attributable to heat, nor of the nature of a distillation, but is due to chemical reactions at the ordinary temperature, and under the normal conditions of climate.
Pagina 303 - When the ether spray thus produced is directed upon the outer skin, the skin is rendered insensible within a minute; but the effects do not end here. So soon as the skin is divided, the ether begins to exert on the nervous filaments the double action of cold and of etherization : so that the narcotism can be extended deeply to any desired extent. Pure rectified ether used in this manner is entirely negative ; it causes no irritation, and may be applied to a deep wound, as I shall show, without any...