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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Anhydrite
Britannica 11thANHYDRITE, a mineral, differing chemically from the more commonly occurring gypsum in containing no water of cryitallization, being anhydrous calcium sulphate, CaSO,. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and has three directions of perfect cleavage para ...
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Anthracite
Britannica 11thANTHRACITE (Gr. avOpat, coal), a term applied to those varieties of coal which do not give off tarry or other hydrocarbon vapours when heated below their point of ignition; or, in other words, which bum with a smokeless and nearly non-luminous flame. Other ter
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Anhalt-Dessau, Leopold I., Prince of
Britannica 11th... ned to death for desertion, and his continued and finally successful efforts to ANHYDRITE— ANILINE secure Frederick's reinstatement in the Prussian army; anc secondly, his part in the War of the IN.Iish Succession on the Rhine where he served under his old chi ...
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Austrian Succession
Britannica 11th... ned to death for desertion, and his continued and finally successful efforts to ANHYDRITE— ANILINE secure Frederick's reinstatement in the Prussian army; anc secondly, his part in the War of the IN.Iish Succession on the Rhine where he served under his old chi ...
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