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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Emetics
Britannica 11thEMETICS (from Gr. e/iertKos, causing vomit), the term given to substances which are administered for the purpose of producing vomiting. It is customary to divide emetics into two classes, those which produce their effect by acting on the vomiting centre in the ...
Vol. 9, pp. 336-336
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Britannica 11th... amount of alumina which it contains, but seems rather to depend on its physical EMETICS— EMEU condition. Thus, taking the effective hardness of sapphire as ico, Dr J. Lawrence Smith found that the emery of Samos with 70-10% of alumina had a corresponding hardn ...
Vol. 9, pp. 335-336
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