Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 10. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 426
... fixed air as is necef- fary for its folution . Too ୮୪୪ On putting magnefia into water , and afterwards drying it , it is found to retain drying it , it is found to retain of its weight of aqueous fluid ; but when fully saturated with ...
... fixed air as is necef- fary for its folution . Too ୮୪୪ On putting magnefia into water , and afterwards drying it , it is found to retain drying it , it is found to retain of its weight of aqueous fluid ; but when fully saturated with ...
Page 740
... fixed pulleys as a lever of the firft , ley . and the moveable pulley as one of the fecond kind : but it is justly observed by Profeffor Hamilton , that the pulley cannot be with any propriety reduced to a lever ; because , though both ...
... fixed pulleys as a lever of the firft , ley . and the moveable pulley as one of the fecond kind : but it is justly observed by Profeffor Hamilton , that the pulley cannot be with any propriety reduced to a lever ; because , though both ...
Page 761
... fixed upon an iron axis called the spindle , the lower end of which turns in a brass pot fixed at F in the horizontal beam ST , called the bridge - tree ; and the upper part of the spindle turns in a wooden bush , fixed into the lower ...
... fixed upon an iron axis called the spindle , the lower end of which turns in a brass pot fixed at F in the horizontal beam ST , called the bridge - tree ; and the upper part of the spindle turns in a wooden bush , fixed into the lower ...
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