The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin and Transformation of Lower Organisms, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1872 - Life |
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... for them , it must also be conceded for other allied fungoid and algoid units . Evidence which is of the most convincing character when looked at from all sides , now shows that Bacteria are killed by a temperature of 140 ° vi PREFACE .
... for them , it must also be conceded for other allied fungoid and algoid units . Evidence which is of the most convincing character when looked at from all sides , now shows that Bacteria are killed by a temperature of 140 ° vi PREFACE .
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... temperature of 140 ° F . Yet similar organisms will constantly appear and rapidly multiply within closed flasks containing organic fluids , although the flasks and their contents have been pre- viously exposed for some time to a temperature ...
... temperature of 140 ° F . Yet similar organisms will constantly appear and rapidly multiply within closed flasks containing organic fluids , although the flasks and their contents have been pre- viously exposed for some time to a temperature ...
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... temperature . The mechanical force , derived from falling weights , which was employed in turning the wheel was known ; so that when , after the wheel had revolved for a cer- tain time , the temperature of the water was estimated , and ...
... temperature . The mechanical force , derived from falling weights , which was employed in turning the wheel was known ; so that when , after the wheel had revolved for a cer- tain time , the temperature of the water was estimated , and ...
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... temperature of one pound of water by one degree of the Fahrenheit scale1 . It is needless for us to follow further the ultimate developments of this doctrine with which the names of Clausius , Rankine , Thomson , and Helmholtz are ...
... temperature of one pound of water by one degree of the Fahrenheit scale1 . It is needless for us to follow further the ultimate developments of this doctrine with which the names of Clausius , Rankine , Thomson , and Helmholtz are ...
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... temperature , from the slowest process of fermentation to the most rapid combustion ; that is , all the decompositions and recombinations of matter are attended with the addition or subtraction of caloric . Without the continual agency ...
... temperature , from the slowest process of fermentation to the most rapid combustion ; that is , all the decompositions and recombinations of matter are attended with the addition or subtraction of caloric . Without the continual agency ...
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