| William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 páginas
...the head which formt its great bony cavity; and in a living subject contains tiie brain. See ANATOMY. SKY, the blue expanse of air and atmosphere. The azure colour of the sky Sir Isaac N V« ton attributes to vapours beginning to condense there, and which have got consistence... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 384 páginas
...SKY, the blue expanse of air and atmoipliere. The azure colour of the sky Sir Isaac Newton attributes to vapours beginning to condense there, and which have got consistence enough to reflect the most reflexible rays. SLAG, is a term used by the persons employed in working minerals, to express any hard... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 382 páginas
...SKY, the blue expanse of air and atmoiphere. The azure colour of the sky Sir Isaac Newton attributes to vapours beginning to condense there, and which have got consistence enough to reflect the most reflexible rays. SLAG, is a term used by the persons employed in working minerals, to express any hard... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - 1826 - 308 páginas
...siphon, and that as long as the liquor, in the uppei vessel is above the upper orifice of the siSKY, the blue expanse of air and atmosphere. The azure...and which have got consistence enough to reflect the lost flexible rays. SNOW, a well known substance, formed by the freezing of the vapours in the atmosphere.... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1829 - 312 páginas
...interposition of some opaque body between it and the luminary. SIPHON, or Syphon, in hydraulicks, a SKY, the blue expanse of air and atmosphere. The azure...consistence enough to reflect the most flexible rays. SOLID, in philosophy, a body whose parts are so firmly connected together, aa not to give way or slip... | |
| George Crabb - 1831 - 426 páginas
...one of the first of the featliered dainties. SOL . 347 SNOW. A substance well known in cold climates, formed by the freezing of the vapours in the atmosphere....differs from hail and hoar-frost, in being as it were crystalized, which they are not. This appears on examining a fluke of snow by a magnifying glass, when... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1831 - 1330 páginas
...showers of hail, in which the hailstones were of extraordinary magnitude. 2376. Snow is formed by tbc freezing of the vapours in the atmosphere. It differs from hail and hoar frost, in being as it were crystallised, while they ore not. As the flakes fall down through the... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 páginas
...surprising showers of hail, in which the hailstones were of extraordinary magnitude. 2038. Snow is formed by the freezing of the vapours in the atmosphere. It differs from hail and hoar frost, in being, as it were, crystallised, while they are not. As the flakes fall down through... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1837 - 358 páginas
...to vapours beginning to condense there, and which have got consistence enough to reflect the t flexi most flexible rays. SNOW, a well known substance,...of the vapours in the atmosphere. It differs from hr.il and hoarfrost, in being as it were crystallized, which they are not. SOLID, in philosophy, a... | |
| John Lee Comstock, Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1846 - 148 páginas
...siphon, and that as long as the liquor in the upper vessel is above the upper orifice of the siphon. SNOW. A well known substance, formed by the freezing...being, as it were, crystallized, which they are not SOLID. A term applied to a body whose parts are so firmly connected together, as not to give way, or... | |
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