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Scientific American, Vol. 37, No. 18 (1877) (1877)

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ry mine for cross-cutting and prospect- It is not everyone who has an opportunity to conduct a plant bearing the specific names nivea and tenacissima; both series of experiments upon diamonds of various kinds, and are utilizable, but the latter is much the better for industrial ing 460 feet of new… … to a white heat in dry hydrogen gas, by ex- cluding the air, without showing any change. Silk....... + 4 6 Fig. 1.—THE RAMIE PLANT. Colored diamords, on the contrary, change Thus the fiber of the ramie is longer and more uniform thanall the others, except that their color when ignited; a dirty…

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