In the century before Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning was electricity, aerial niter and sulfur, ... Princes hired gunners and artisans to design spectacular displays, whose dramatic effects of sparks, noise, ... Fireworks were also used to imitate the human body in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Definition: sweet spirit of niter ... the human soul after it has left the body. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. --Eccl. xii. 7. Ye gentle spirits far away, With whom we shared the cup of grace.
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The dampness of the vault and the niter (white or gray salt deposit) with which the walls were encrusted, would not be good for Fortunato's health. Fortunato responded by saying, "Let us go, nevertheless. The cold is merely nothing. ... Montresor said that on the shield was "...[a] hugh human foot d'or, in a field of azure;
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And first, let us contemplate the human body. The parts of this are either solid or fluid. Those of the solid, of which the rest are formed, are termed similar parts. ... This cellular substance in the human body, is found throughout the whole; wherever any vessel or moving muscular fibre can be traced, and this without...
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Some of chlorine's uses depend on its toxic effects. For example, chlorine is now widely used as a disinfectant in municipal water systems, swimming pools, and sewage treatment plants. ... The human body uses iodine to make thyroxine, an important hormone (chemical messenger) produced by the thyroid gland.
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The physiological requirement of salt, by the human body is immediate and life sustaining, . Many other everyday uses are today ... Studying the influence of salt on such great events as the rise and fall of civilizations, one may be tempted to ascribe more to the effects of one's chosen subject than the facts will stand. M...
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Bear in mind, the studies are still small—usually only several hundred volunteers—and short, meaning there isn’t enough statistical power to spot potentially dangerous side effects. ... The human body is capable of taking care of itself providing it is given the right environment to succeed. one "DIET" that comes to...
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This is one of the most valuable preparations in the Materia Medica, and will in some dangerous hours, when all hope is fled, and the system racked with pain, be the soothing balm which cures the most dangerous disease to which the human body is liable, such as flux, dysentery and all summer complaints.
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Cadaver preservation is defined as the process of chemically treating a dead human body, or parts of it, to protect it from the forces of decomposition. Some preservation methods confer temporary protection, such as modern embalming;
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