British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... metal , is prohibited to be exported . The red emery is found in copper mines , and the little there is of it in England comes from Sweden and Denmark . The com- mon emery is taken out of iron mines , and almost the only sort used in ...
... metal , is prohibited to be exported . The red emery is found in copper mines , and the little there is of it in England comes from Sweden and Denmark . The com- mon emery is taken out of iron mines , and almost the only sort used in ...
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... metals are too fusible to be enamel- led , and most of them are corroded by the action of the fused glass . For this reason none of the metals are used but gold , silver , and copper . Platina has in- deed been used ; but of its effects ...
... metals are too fusible to be enamel- led , and most of them are corroded by the action of the fused glass . For this reason none of the metals are used but gold , silver , and copper . Platina has in- deed been used ; but of its effects ...
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... metal , when it came to contract by cooling . The enameller's furnace is square , and built of bricks , bedded in an earth pro- per for the purpose . It may be consi- dered as consisting of two parts , the lower part which receives a ...
... metal , when it came to contract by cooling . The enameller's furnace is square , and built of bricks , bedded in an earth pro- per for the purpose . It may be consi- dered as consisting of two parts , the lower part which receives a ...
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... metal , but likewise because the colour would not be uniform , if it were to be ground thinner at one part than at another . The deep scratches of the file are in the next place taken out by rubbing the surface with a piece of deal wood ...
... metal , but likewise because the colour would not be uniform , if it were to be ground thinner at one part than at another . The deep scratches of the file are in the next place taken out by rubbing the surface with a piece of deal wood ...
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... metal and that of gold should be combined . Violet is likewise obtained from the purple oxide of gold . This colour pro- ceeds from having a greater quantity of lead in the flux , and it is nearly of the same tint , whether crude or ...
... metal and that of gold should be combined . Violet is likewise obtained from the purple oxide of gold . This colour pro- ceeds from having a greater quantity of lead in the flux , and it is nearly of the same tint , whether crude or ...
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