The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... according to a common standard of temperature ) , such a close conformity subsists between the salinity of the equatorial water of the surface and that of the polar waters of the bottom , as can scarcely be accounted for in any other ...
... according to a common standard of temperature ) , such a close conformity subsists between the salinity of the equatorial water of the surface and that of the polar waters of the bottom , as can scarcely be accounted for in any other ...
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... According to Boscovich matter is made up of atoms . Each atom is an indivisible point , having position in space , capable of motion in a continuous path , and possessing a certain mass , whereby a certain amount of force is required to ...
... According to Boscovich matter is made up of atoms . Each atom is an indivisible point , having position in space , capable of motion in a continuous path , and possessing a certain mass , whereby a certain amount of force is required to ...
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... according to Boyle's law is now P and since the area of a face of the cube is n2 times what it was , the whole pressure on the face of the cube is of its original value . But since everything has been expanded symmetrically , the ...
... according to Boyle's law is now P and since the area of a face of the cube is n2 times what it was , the whole pressure on the face of the cube is of its original value . But since everything has been expanded symmetrically , the ...
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... According to our result , such a medium would be neither more nor less than a gas . Supposing its molecules so small that they can penetrate between the molecules of solid substances such as glass , a so - called vacuum would be full of ...
... According to our result , such a medium would be neither more nor less than a gas . Supposing its molecules so small that they can penetrate between the molecules of solid substances such as glass , a so - called vacuum would be full of ...
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... according to this theory , is no mere individual , but a repre- sentative body , containing members collected from every rank of the long - drawn ramification of the ancestral tree , the number of these members being amply sufficient ...
... according to this theory , is no mere individual , but a repre- sentative body , containing members collected from every rank of the long - drawn ramification of the ancestral tree , the number of these members being amply sufficient ...
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