Cyclopædia
Assuming corrosion is required, the following 5 results were found.
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ANABROSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANABROSIS
in Medicine, the issuing of Blood at a Hole worn in a Vein by Corrosion. The Word is Greek, ἀνάφρωσις (anabrosis), corrosion. ANABROSIS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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ANEMOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANEMOMETER
usually proceed from an Artery being accidentally cut, or pricked in bleeding; or from some preternatural Distention, or a Corrosion of its Coats, etc. See PHLEBOTOMY. If an Artery happen to be cut, the Blood gushes out impetuously, by starts; and is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AURUM POTABILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20POTABILE
AURUM POTABILE, potable gold, is a composition made of gold, by reducing it, without any corrosive, into a gum, or substance like honey, of the colour of blood; which gum steeped in spirit of wine, acquires a ruby-colour, and is called tincture of gold....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
or in so great Plenty." Among the several ways of doing this, the fittest for practice, he observes, 'are Fermentation, Corrosion, Dissolution, Decomposition; the boiling of Waters and other Fluids; and the mutual Action of Bodies, especially saline...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ACRIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRIMONY
ACRIMONY, Asperity or Sharpness, expresses a Quality in Bodies, by which they corrode, destroy, or dissolve others. See CORROSION, etc.Salts are only caustic in virtue of their Acrimony. See SALT, CAUSTIC, etc. The Acrimony of the Bile is supposed to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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