The Student, and Intellectual Observer, Volume 1Groombridge and Sons, 1868 - Science |
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... importance to our subject . We are ignorant even of the extent to which they had originally occupied Western Europe ; they appear never to have made any great name there , and they seem to have been driven onwards and crushed by the ...
... importance to our subject . We are ignorant even of the extent to which they had originally occupied Western Europe ; they appear never to have made any great name there , and they seem to have been driven onwards and crushed by the ...
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... importance . In 1785 , the electrician , Van Marum , took it into his head to pass electric sparks through oxygen , probably as a mere tentative experiment to see what would happen . He found that the oxygen acquired a peculiar smell ...
... importance . In 1785 , the electrician , Van Marum , took it into his head to pass electric sparks through oxygen , probably as a mere tentative experiment to see what would happen . He found that the oxygen acquired a peculiar smell ...
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... important stage in the progress was reached by Becquerel and Fremy , who not only confirmed the conclusions of Marignac and De la Rive , but demonstrated that pure oxygen might , by the pro- longed action of electricity , be converted ...
... important stage in the progress was reached by Becquerel and Fremy , who not only confirmed the conclusions of Marignac and De la Rive , but demonstrated that pure oxygen might , by the pro- longed action of electricity , be converted ...
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... important and genuine set of discoveries . In 1860 , Andrews and Tait published in the " Philosophical Transactions " a paper " On the Volumetric Relations of Ozone , " which must be regarded as the most important memoir upon the sub ...
... important and genuine set of discoveries . In 1860 , Andrews and Tait published in the " Philosophical Transactions " a paper " On the Volumetric Relations of Ozone , " which must be regarded as the most important memoir upon the sub ...
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... important functions to fulfil in nature . But this very certainty has , unfortunately , been a fruitful source of wild assumptions and mere speculative guesses , doing infinite harm to the progress of true knowledge . Some have asserted ...
... important functions to fulfil in nature . But this very certainty has , unfortunately , been a fruitful source of wild assumptions and mere speculative guesses , doing infinite harm to the progress of true knowledge . Some have asserted ...
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