Nature, Volume 41Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1890 - Electronic journals |
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... tion for varying load , and that with a high fall this turbine must be made so small and must run so fast as rapidly to wear out , as in the Fourneyron turbines at St. Blaise ( p . 422 ) ; but this disadvantage the author professes ( p ...
... tion for varying load , and that with a high fall this turbine must be made so small and must run so fast as rapidly to wear out , as in the Fourneyron turbines at St. Blaise ( p . 422 ) ; but this disadvantage the author professes ( p ...
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... tion I found that the whole row , with , I think , only one excep- tion , were almost entirely devoid of leaves , the trunks and branches being covered with a fine web , very closely spun , giving them the appearance of being coated ...
... tion I found that the whole row , with , I think , only one excep- tion , were almost entirely devoid of leaves , the trunks and branches being covered with a fine web , very closely spun , giving them the appearance of being coated ...
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... tion , lasting as much as 76 seconds in the case of steel containing 125 per cent . of carbon ( thick continuous line , ( Fig . 7 ) . [ In the experiments shown to the audience the ' spot of HIGH - CARBON STEEL LOW - CARBON STEEL TIME ...
... tion , lasting as much as 76 seconds in the case of steel containing 125 per cent . of carbon ( thick continuous line , ( Fig . 7 ) . [ In the experiments shown to the audience the ' spot of HIGH - CARBON STEEL LOW - CARBON STEEL TIME ...
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... tion , lead to its performing this function ? Supposing that the physical influences of the environment have modified the arrangement , or cohesion , size , or number of molecules in a cell , or modified their molecular motions , how ...
... tion , lead to its performing this function ? Supposing that the physical influences of the environment have modified the arrangement , or cohesion , size , or number of molecules in a cell , or modified their molecular motions , how ...
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... tion of protoplasm should be affected in these diverse but most definitely diverse ways by the environment of earth and plant - tissues respectively . The radicle and plumule are formed ( e.g. in the bean ) while still surrounded by the ...
... tion of protoplasm should be affected in these diverse but most definitely diverse ways by the environment of earth and plant - tissues respectively . The radicle and plumule are formed ( e.g. in the bean ) while still surrounded by the ...
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Page 39 - become included in the body which has been composed of their metamorphosed and diversely combined or confluent brethren ; so included, any derivative germ-cell or the nucleus of such may commence and repeat the same processes,