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... obtained from nearly all mineralogists or dealers in physical and chemical apparatus . Good specimens are sold generally for about 2s . 6d . or 5s . a pound . In choosing a sample , select a piece of an elongated shape , like a plum or ...
... obtained from nearly all mineralogists or dealers in physical and chemical apparatus . Good specimens are sold generally for about 2s . 6d . or 5s . a pound . In choosing a sample , select a piece of an elongated shape , like a plum or ...
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... obtained by other nations . Early Phrygian iron miners , settled in Samothrace , an island in the Ægean Sea , were well acquainted with the attractive power of magnetite for iron . Priests of Samothrace , in 514 B.C. , even sold ...
... obtained by other nations . Early Phrygian iron miners , settled in Samothrace , an island in the Ægean Sea , were well acquainted with the attractive power of magnetite for iron . Priests of Samothrace , in 514 B.C. , even sold ...
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... obtain any insight into the real reason for this existence of energy due to the mere relative position of two or more masses of matter . By Elastic Energy or Energy of Configuration is meant the energy possessed by bodies in virtue of ...
... obtain any insight into the real reason for this existence of energy due to the mere relative position of two or more masses of matter . By Elastic Energy or Energy of Configuration is meant the energy possessed by bodies in virtue of ...
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... obtain larger or smaller units of length , multiples by 10 , 100 or 1000 , or fractions of I , 01 or 001 of the metre are taken , and these are denoted by prefixing to the word metre a Greek or Latin numerical term . student should note ...
... obtain larger or smaller units of length , multiples by 10 , 100 or 1000 , or fractions of I , 01 or 001 of the metre are taken , and these are denoted by prefixing to the word metre a Greek or Latin numerical term . student should note ...
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... obtain the mean solar day . A pendulum which makes in one mean solar day 86,400 swings ( from side to side , and not ... obtained by dividing the numerical value of the length described by the time of describing it is a measure of the ...
... obtain the mean solar day . A pendulum which makes in one mean solar day 86,400 swings ( from side to side , and not ... obtained by dividing the numerical value of the length described by the time of describing it is a measure of the ...
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Page 123 - Ampere, which is one-tenth of the unit of current of the CGS system of electromagnetic units and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with a certain specification, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second.
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