Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, 第 10 卷J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 |
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第 74 頁 - I feel myself going ; I thank you for your attentions ; but I pray you to take no more trouble about me. Let me go off quietly. I cannot last long.
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第 438 頁 - The crystals readily absorb moisture on exposure to the air, and they are thus liquefied; the acid, however, is but slightly soluble in water, but it is freely soluble in alcohol, ether, and glycerine. It does not...
第 98 頁 - Ib. of chalk in water with 7 oz. additional of carbonic acid— that is to say, with as much more carbonic acid as the chalk itself contains — the chalk becomes readily soluble in water, and when so dissolved, is called bicarbonate of lime. If the quantity of water containing the 1 Ib.
第 12 頁 - Laving a foot, C, like that of an organ-pipe, and an upper opening, long and narrow, as at B, with a point, A, rising at one end of it...