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Scientific American, Vol. 8, No. 7 (1863) (1863)

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it were a thousand years old? HOW FLINIS ARE FORMED. SHERMAN’S PORTABLE BREASTWORK. The rounded nodules called “ flints’’ are usually found in chalk beds, and are supposed to be organic The importance of protecting infantry in the field remains transformed into chalcedonic quartz. Flint from the… … sons familiar with military science. had entirely disappeared and their places occupied been tke study of many inventors. with the semi-transparent variety of silica—chalce- aplan designed to afford such protection, which will dony. Silica was also deposited upon the willow be readily understood by…

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