Nature, Volume 41Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1890 - Electronic journals |
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... metal in a higher degree ; and this view prevails in the writings of Henckel , Newmann , Cramer , Gellert , Rinman , and Macquer . This opinion survived with wonderful per- sistence , but it did not influence the teaching of Réau- mur ...
... metal in a higher degree ; and this view prevails in the writings of Henckel , Newmann , Cramer , Gellert , Rinman , and Macquer . This opinion survived with wonderful per- sistence , but it did not influence the teaching of Réau- mur ...
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... metals , like all elements , are composed of atoms of definite weights and volumes grouped in molecules . In order actually to transmute one metal into another it would be necessary to discover a method of attacking not the molecule but ...
... metals , like all elements , are composed of atoms of definite weights and volumes grouped in molecules . In order actually to transmute one metal into another it would be necessary to discover a method of attacking not the molecule but ...
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... metal might be tested by ascertaining the amount of change in thermo - electric condition which can be produced by the process of hardening . " It is by a thermo - electric method that the views as to the existence of iron in allotropic ...
... metal might be tested by ascertaining the amount of change in thermo - electric condition which can be produced by the process of hardening . " It is by a thermo - electric method that the views as to the existence of iron in allotropic ...
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... metals could be deduced . Prof. Righi found the differences sensibly the same in dry and moist air and in carbonic anhydride ; but with hydrogen , very different values ( from those in air ) appeared , where one of the metals examined ...
... metals could be deduced . Prof. Righi found the differences sensibly the same in dry and moist air and in carbonic anhydride ; but with hydrogen , very different values ( from those in air ) appeared , where one of the metals examined ...
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... metal plates , one connected with an electroscope , the other with a of paraffin or ebonite ( recently passed through a flame ) between slightly - charged Leyden - jar . On now interposing a thick slab the plates , a very decided ...
... metal plates , one connected with an electroscope , the other with a of paraffin or ebonite ( recently passed through a flame ) between slightly - charged Leyden - jar . On now interposing a thick slab the plates , a very decided ...
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