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... metals and some other bodies , are not to be parted but with great force . To give a fa- miliar instance of this cohesion of matter , our Philosopher took two leaden balls , and filing a part off each , so that the two flat parts might ...
... metals and some other bodies , are not to be parted but with great force . To give a fa- miliar instance of this cohesion of matter , our Philosopher took two leaden balls , and filing a part off each , so that the two flat parts might ...
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... metal or water ; but if it meet with substances which will not conduct it ( such as stone or wood ) it rends them , and disperses them in every direction . Lightning burns , and often melts metals and other substances . All these ...
... metal or water ; but if it meet with substances which will not conduct it ( such as stone or wood ) it rends them , and disperses them in every direction . Lightning burns , and often melts metals and other substances . All these ...
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... metal which you may have about you : if you do this , you are not in much danger of being hurt by the thunder and lightning . Snow is the small particles of water fro- zen in the air before they had united into drops ; and hail is drops ...
... metal which you may have about you : if you do this , you are not in much danger of being hurt by the thunder and lightning . Snow is the small particles of water fro- zen in the air before they had united into drops ; and hail is drops ...
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... marcasites , or semi - metals , as they are sometimes called by the chemists are antimony , zink , bismuth , & c . These are not ductile , or malleable , but are hard and brittle , and may be reduced to powder ; Of Minerals . 93.
... marcasites , or semi - metals , as they are sometimes called by the chemists are antimony , zink , bismuth , & c . These are not ductile , or malleable , but are hard and brittle , and may be reduced to powder ; Of Minerals . 93.
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... metals , and indeed , sometimes among the metals ; but I think it ought not to be classed under either of these heads , but considered separately ; as also should brimstone , though it be a part of the composition of crude Antimony ...
... metals , and indeed , sometimes among the metals ; but I think it ought not to be classed under either of these heads , but considered separately ; as also should brimstone , though it be a part of the composition of crude Antimony ...
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