Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 17. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 737
... fire , which gradually expanded the folid by very minute additions ; and if the accumulation round a particle of ice , which is necessary for making it a par- ticle of water , be fo great in comparison of what gives it the expanfion of ...
... fire , which gradually expanded the folid by very minute additions ; and if the accumulation round a particle of ice , which is necessary for making it a par- ticle of water , be fo great in comparison of what gives it the expanfion of ...
Page 776
... fire - place is fourteen inches ; its length is greater . The lower part of the tuyere is fix inches and a half above the bottom . In the interior part of the fire - place there is an oblong opening for the flowing of the fuperfluous ...
... fire - place is fourteen inches ; its length is greater . The lower part of the tuyere is fix inches and a half above the bottom . In the interior part of the fire - place there is an oblong opening for the flowing of the fuperfluous ...
Page 816
... fire - place , is fomewhat wider , and confiderably thicker than the ftories above , which are merely flues . When the fire place is finished and about to be arched over , a flat iron bar of small thickness is laid along the top of the ...
... fire - place , is fomewhat wider , and confiderably thicker than the ftories above , which are merely flues . When the fire place is finished and about to be arched over , a flat iron bar of small thickness is laid along the top of the ...
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