Nature, Volume 41Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1890 - Electronic journals |
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... question at once suggests itself , Can iron behave Joule afforded experimental evidence for an affirmative answer to this question nearly forty years ago by communicating to the British Association in 1850 a paper on some amalgams . The ...
... question at once suggests itself , Can iron behave Joule afforded experimental evidence for an affirmative answer to this question nearly forty years ago by communicating to the British Association in 1850 a paper on some amalgams . The ...
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... question would demand a lecture to itself . I am anxious to show you an experiment which will help to illustrate the existence of molecular change in iron . Here is a long bar of steel containing much carbon . In such a variety of steel ...
... question would demand a lecture to itself . I am anxious to show you an experiment which will help to illustrate the existence of molecular change in iron . Here is a long bar of steel containing much carbon . In such a variety of steel ...
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... question is being investigated by Mr. Turner , formerly one of my own students at the School of Mines . That the colours produced are really due to oxidation was shown by Sir Humphry Davy in 1813 , but the nature Stahl und Eisen , ix ...
... question is being investigated by Mr. Turner , formerly one of my own students at the School of Mines . That the colours produced are really due to oxidation was shown by Sir Humphry Davy in 1813 , but the nature Stahl und Eisen , ix ...
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... question how any of the cells of the first coheren ' colonies came to reproduce , not such cells as their ances tors ( or , rather , the earlier living portions of their very selves ) had by countless processes of fission produced . but ...
... question how any of the cells of the first coheren ' colonies came to reproduce , not such cells as their ances tors ( or , rather , the earlier living portions of their very selves ) had by countless processes of fission produced . but ...
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... question of a part ( p . 73 ) growing " to resemble the whole , " comparable to the re- growth , by crystallization , to replace a fragment broken irum a crystal . We have a whole which divides itself in such a way as to initiate and ...
... question of a part ( p . 73 ) growing " to resemble the whole , " comparable to the re- growth , by crystallization , to replace a fragment broken irum a crystal . We have a whole which divides itself in such a way as to initiate and ...
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Page 39 - become included in the body which has been composed of their metamorphosed and diversely combined or confluent brethren ; so included, any derivative germ-cell or the nucleus of such may commence and repeat the same processes,