10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VITRIFACTION»
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Caledonia, Or an Account, Historical and Topographic, of ...
Those philosophers, who arrogated the most knowledge, decided, that the hills,
and forts, and vitrifaction, were all. the necessary effects of extinct volcanos(y).
Ino^irers of a different, sort have said, indeed, with less confidence, that the hills
are ...
Attempts at vitrifaction date back to the twentieth century. Doddering old
millionaires had themselves interred in liquid nitrogren, in the hope that someday
they would be restored to life. Complete nonsense: heating a frozen corpse only
serves ...
2'27, 234; D. Christison, Early Fortifications in Scotland, pp. 187, 190). The
question is whether the vitrifaction, which was due to fire, was accidental or
designed; and in some cases the only way of settling this is to ascertain by
excavation the ...
4
Soviet Physics: Technical physics
The Idea that the basic type of chemical binding for vitrifaction Is covalent binding
is not in contradiction with the main point of the views of Zachariasen and Winter
and corresponds to the point of view of Miuller as to the chemical nature of the ...
5
The archaeology of Argyll
It would be pertinent to question whether the presence of vitrifaction itself affords
any indication of date. Vitrifaction, whether in the walls of a small, circular dun-
house like Rahoy or in the ramparts of a larger fort like Dun Mac Sniachan,
implies ...
James Neil Graham Ritchie, 1997
6
Early Fortifications in Scotland: Motes, Camps, and Forts
The thoroughness and apparent continuity of the central vitrifaction at Dun Skeig
and Caisteal Aoidlie, as described by Mr Honeyman, speak strongly in favour of
an intentional origin. On the other hand, Mr Macdonald, whose opinion, derived ...
7
The British Critic: And Quarterly Theological Review
... some round, others oblong, flat, square, and angular, Eight of the chaplet are of
glass; one of which, a pellucid vitrifaction, emits many beautiful and variegated
colours; two are of a straw-coloured opaque vitrifaction, with wreathed pea-green
...
The real problem at issue is to account for the vitrifaction which to a greater or
less extent is, or rather was, to be seen on the surrounding walls of some fifty
stone-built forts scattered throughout the northern and south-western districts of ...
9
On the management of landed estates: a general work, for the ...
Consequently, stones that are prone to vitrifaction ought to be broken down into
small pieces ; otherwise,, the fire is required to be so intense, that the surface
becomes vitrified, before the air from the center can be expelled. Another
suggestion ...
Mr. Marshall (William), 1806
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The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Or: ...
20); 2. in statements made by Nebuchadnezzar that the walls of his temples were
often " clothed with gold;" 8. in the parallel ornamentation of Kebatana (Herod, i.
98). 30 .4s. Soc. Jouiu. pp. 81, 22. 31 Ibid. pp. 6. 7. This vitrifaction of the upper ...
