Cyclopædia
Assuming drop is required, the following 6 results were found.
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ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS
of Animals, according to their several Natures and Dispositions, imbibe various Juices from the Blood. Opticks, p. 367. If a Drop of Oil, Water, or other Fluid, be laid on a Glass Plane perpendicular to the Horizon, so as to stand without breaking or...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Meteorologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/meteorology
including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water- spout, &c. Winds, Mon-soon, Hurricane, and the like.
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water- spout, &c. Winds, Mon-soon, Hurricane, and the like. 2...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ABLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ABLUTION
it the Ashes of the Victim that was slain in Sacrifice. ABLUTION, among the modern Romanists, is understood of the little Drop of Water and Wine, which they take after the Communion, to wash down and facilitate the Digestion of the Host. The same Term...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ARÆOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARÆOMETER
described in Philos. Transact. N° 262. thus: A (fig. 19.) is a glass bottle or matrass, with so slender a neck, that a drop of water takes up in it about five or six lines, or ⅛ of an inch. Near that neck is a small capillary tube D, about six inches...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
great Number of Phenomena.—We shall here only mention a few easy and obvious ones; as, the Spherical Figure, assumed by the Drops of Fluids; which can only arise from such Principle: The uniting and incorporating of two Spherules of Quicksilver into...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics