The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... height of perpetual snow , some of their loftiest summits are covered with snow during the greater part of the year ... heights are in Marocco , from which point they appear to diminish in ATMOSPHERE ATMOSPHERE is the name applied to the ...
... height of perpetual snow , some of their loftiest summits are covered with snow during the greater part of the year ... heights are in Marocco , from which point they appear to diminish in ATMOSPHERE ATMOSPHERE is the name applied to the ...
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... height ; for as soon as the water has risen to such a height that the weight of the column of water in the pump above the level of the surface of the water in the well just balances the pressure exerted by the atmosphere on the surface ...
... height ; for as soon as the water has risen to such a height that the weight of the column of water in the pump above the level of the surface of the water in the well just balances the pressure exerted by the atmosphere on the surface ...
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... heights , observations made in January to ascertain the height of Lake Balkash would make the lake 350 feet too high , and observations made in July would make it 330 feet too low , the difference of the two observations , each set ...
... heights , observations made in January to ascertain the height of Lake Balkash would make the lake 350 feet too high , and observations made in July would make it 330 feet too low , the difference of the two observations , each set ...
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... height generally ; but in heat during the day is greatest over land , where the air is particular cases , different strata are superimposed on each clear , dry , and comparatively calm , and least over the other , differing widely as ...
... height generally ; but in heat during the day is greatest over land , where the air is particular cases , different strata are superimposed on each clear , dry , and comparatively calm , and least over the other , differing widely as ...
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... height flows away as upper currents into sur- rounding regions ; and the central space of the anticyclone is filled by a slowly descending current , which is fed from upper currents , blowing towards it from neighbouring regions . When ...
... height flows away as upper currents into sur- rounding regions ; and the central space of the anticyclone is filled by a slowly descending current , which is fed from upper currents , blowing towards it from neighbouring regions . When ...
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