The Columbian Cyclopedia, Volume 18Garretson, Cox, 1897 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... obtained , except as a product of living bodies ) united with a large proportion of water , and forming the chief constituent of a substance which , in its primary unmod- ified state , is known as protoplasm . 2. Its universal dis ...
... obtained , except as a product of living bodies ) united with a large proportion of water , and forming the chief constituent of a substance which , in its primary unmod- ified state , is known as protoplasm . 2. Its universal dis ...
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... obtained the award ; but his boat was not entirely satisfactory , and R. Peake , of Her Majesty's Dockyard at Woolwich , was intrusted with the task of producing a life - boat which should combine the best qualities of the different ...
... obtained the award ; but his boat was not entirely satisfactory , and R. Peake , of Her Majesty's Dockyard at Woolwich , was intrusted with the task of producing a life - boat which should combine the best qualities of the different ...
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... obtained before these are exhausted . Simpler apparatus , consisting of life - belts and life - lines , is kept at a much greater number of stations . The system is worked by the coastguard , the men being paid for peri- odical drilling ...
... obtained before these are exhausted . Simpler apparatus , consisting of life - belts and life - lines , is kept at a much greater number of stations . The system is worked by the coastguard , the men being paid for peri- odical drilling ...
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... obtained a perfect breath - figure of the discharge on each side of the glass , which bore the most striking resemblance to a tree . With all due allowance for the probable print- ing - power of lightning , the accounts given of it , in ...
... obtained a perfect breath - figure of the discharge on each side of the glass , which bore the most striking resemblance to a tree . With all due allowance for the probable print- ing - power of lightning , the accounts given of it , in ...
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... obtained by the destructive distillation of wood , is proved by the fact , that the hardest woods ( those which contain the great- est proportion of lignine ) yield the largest amount of acid . Lignine is identical with the matière ...
... obtained by the destructive distillation of wood , is proved by the fact , that the hardest woods ( those which contain the great- est proportion of lignine ) yield the largest amount of acid . Lignine is identical with the matière ...
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