British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 |
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... Lava consists of two sub - species , viz . slag - lava and foam - lava : these do not extend far , having in general flowed , in streams of considerable height , into hollows , and gradually consolidated during its course . Matter of ...
... Lava consists of two sub - species , viz . slag - lava and foam - lava : these do not extend far , having in general flowed , in streams of considerable height , into hollows , and gradually consolidated during its course . Matter of ...
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... lava near the Torre del Greco , in a valley where it had accumulated : and though it had ceased its motion several days , yet retained a heat equal to that of red hot iron . They formed a piece of lead , weighing two ounces , in a ...
... lava near the Torre del Greco , in a valley where it had accumulated : and though it had ceased its motion several days , yet retained a heat equal to that of red hot iron . They formed a piece of lead , weighing two ounces , in a ...
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... lava has borne down and burned a tree , a bright flame issues from its surface ; otherwise I have never seen any flame at- tending an eruption : " adding , that the light reflected on the smoke , as it rises from the crater , by the ...
... lava has borne down and burned a tree , a bright flame issues from its surface ; otherwise I have never seen any flame at- tending an eruption : " adding , that the light reflected on the smoke , as it rises from the crater , by the ...
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... lava was a sand , which the operator could not separate from it . Five ounces and a half of Vesuvian lava produced thirty measures of air , with a slight appearance of carbonic acid gas , the rest was azotic gas , from the degree 1.64 ...
... lava was a sand , which the operator could not separate from it . Five ounces and a half of Vesuvian lava produced thirty measures of air , with a slight appearance of carbonic acid gas , the rest was azotic gas , from the degree 1.64 ...
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... lava , violently forced from the con- taining vessel , on the introduction of wa- ter into a cavity made in it . " From what has been already said , a to- lerable conception may be formed of the probable causes of volcanic eruptions ...
... lava , violently forced from the con- taining vessel , on the introduction of wa- ter into a cavity made in it . " From what has been already said , a to- lerable conception may be formed of the probable causes of volcanic eruptions ...
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