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... surface floats , sub - surface it is here that we think may be discovered the one matter floats , twin floats , and rod - floats . Every detail of the in which the conditions of the experiments were unsatis- construction and use of ...
... surface floats , sub - surface it is here that we think may be discovered the one matter floats , twin floats , and rod - floats . Every detail of the in which the conditions of the experiments were unsatis- construction and use of ...
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... surface of a stream should be convex . The theory is probably a capital instance of the frequent mistake of importing the principles of theoretical hydrodynamics into practical hydraulics . In a stream flowing from a reservoir , in such ...
... surface of a stream should be convex . The theory is probably a capital instance of the frequent mistake of importing the principles of theoretical hydrodynamics into practical hydraulics . In a stream flowing from a reservoir , in such ...
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... surface should as often be accelerated as retarded , and the vertical velocity parabola should as often have its axis above the water - surface as below it . Boileau does indeed suggest that the absorption of air by the water and the ...
... surface should as often be accelerated as retarded , and the vertical velocity parabola should as often have its axis above the water - surface as below it . Boileau does indeed suggest that the absorption of air by the water and the ...
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... surface of the " flat " supports some fifteen or sixteen Holothuriæ , a number which errs rather on the side of deficiency than of excess . the course of a year 18 cubic feet of coral rock will be removed in the form of sand from the ...
... surface of the " flat " supports some fifteen or sixteen Holothuriæ , a number which errs rather on the side of deficiency than of excess . the course of a year 18 cubic feet of coral rock will be removed in the form of sand from the ...
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... surface and strongly arcuate shape , should be associated with a Hybodus tooth is certainly unexpected , and shows again the necessity of caution in dealing with spines , for the Mesozoic spines associate- with Hybodns are very ...
... surface and strongly arcuate shape , should be associated with a Hybodus tooth is certainly unexpected , and shows again the necessity of caution in dealing with spines , for the Mesozoic spines associate- with Hybodns are very ...
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