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... course of M. de Sarzec's Excavations in Chaldæa , 360 ; High Temperature and Carbon Vaporization , 240 ; on the Organic Substances Constituting Vegetable Soil , 551 Beseke ( C. ) , Der Nord - Ostsee - Kanal , 579 Bethlehem , the Star of ...
... course of M. de Sarzec's Excavations in Chaldæa , 360 ; High Temperature and Carbon Vaporization , 240 ; on the Organic Substances Constituting Vegetable Soil , 551 Beseke ( C. ) , Der Nord - Ostsee - Kanal , 579 Bethlehem , the Star of ...
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... course of the Rhone below the lake . Prof. Forel doubts whether they indicate old levels of its waters . Lake Léman consists of two basins . The first and larger extends from the embouchure of the Rhone to the narrow of Promenthoux . At ...
... course of the Rhone below the lake . Prof. Forel doubts whether they indicate old levels of its waters . Lake Léman consists of two basins . The first and larger extends from the embouchure of the Rhone to the narrow of Promenthoux . At ...
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... course based upon some hundreds of experiments synthetically worked out and deductions made - a course whose main object is to lead children to go direct to Nature , via experiment , for their knowledge , there is little danger that the ...
... course based upon some hundreds of experiments synthetically worked out and deductions made - a course whose main object is to lead children to go direct to Nature , via experiment , for their knowledge , there is little danger that the ...
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... course of a few minutes a hollow green column will be seen to run down from the crystal to the bottom of the beaker . Sodium silicate may be used instead of potassium sili- cate , but the appearance and rapidity of the growth is ...
... course of a few minutes a hollow green column will be seen to run down from the crystal to the bottom of the beaker . Sodium silicate may be used instead of potassium sili- cate , but the appearance and rapidity of the growth is ...
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... course of one of His Excellency's tours . M. DE NADAILLAC , in the current number of La Nature , discusses the significance of some of the facts which have been brought to light by the recent excavations of mounds in the Ohio Valley ...
... course of one of His Excellency's tours . M. DE NADAILLAC , in the current number of La Nature , discusses the significance of some of the facts which have been brought to light by the recent excavations of mounds in the Ohio Valley ...
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Page 120 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.