Nature, Volume 95Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1915 - Electronic journals |
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... experiments , how- ever , suggest the possibility of the necessity for some modification of this theory in detail , though not in principle . For in the one case thoroughly investigated we get a nearer approximation to the experimental ...
... experiments , how- ever , suggest the possibility of the necessity for some modification of this theory in detail , though not in principle . For in the one case thoroughly investigated we get a nearer approximation to the experimental ...
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... experiment was carried out with fair success at the Panthéon at Paris , and was repeated under the domes of the ... experiments , which I am about to describe . In practice it is found desirable to subject the gyrostatic apparatus ...
... experiment was carried out with fair success at the Panthéon at Paris , and was repeated under the domes of the ... experiments , which I am about to describe . In practice it is found desirable to subject the gyrostatic apparatus ...
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... experiments show that an oxygen - saturated muscle has an osmotic equivalent less than that of distilled water . - Dr . A. J. Ewart : The function of chlorophyll . Previous observations of the author have tended to support the theory ...
... experiments show that an oxygen - saturated muscle has an osmotic equivalent less than that of distilled water . - Dr . A. J. Ewart : The function of chlorophyll . Previous observations of the author have tended to support the theory ...
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... experiments clearly show that the decom- position of chlorophyll is accompanied by the forma- tion of an aldehyde and of something able to oxidise the potassium iodide and to set free the iodine . In- stead of alcoholic extract of ...
... experiments clearly show that the decom- position of chlorophyll is accompanied by the forma- tion of an aldehyde and of something able to oxidise the potassium iodide and to set free the iodine . In- stead of alcoholic extract of ...
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... experiments , but by other considerations . At the risk of going further from the point at issue , I feel that some remarks on these considerations are necessary . The references to Rau's experiments on voltages necessary to produce ...
... experiments , but by other considerations . At the risk of going further from the point at issue , I feel that some remarks on these considerations are necessary . The references to Rau's experiments on voltages necessary to produce ...
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