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25 Cards in this Set
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Laudanum
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Tincture of Opium (an all-purpose remedy in Europe useful for sleeping and for pain)
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Sweet Vitriol
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Ethyl Ether
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Archaeus
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Alchemical Life force
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Iatrochemistry
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Chemical view of life
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Plogiston Theory
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Air is empty; Matter is composed of phlogiston and ash. When something burns, phlogiston rushes out and fills the empty air. THIS IS NOT CO2*
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Terra Fluida
Terra Lapida Terra Pinguis |
Fluid
Solid Inflammability |
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Dephlogisticated air
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discovered by Joseph Priestly -> oxygen
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Ice calonimitor
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How much ice metls says how much heat produced.
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Dalton
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-molecular weight measured in Daltons; named after John Dalton who discovered that each compound contained elements made of atoms (proposed each atom had a fixed rate)
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Herbarium
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library of plants
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Binomial name
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2 names (eg: first and last name), Genera & Species
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Pineal gland
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Seat of the soul because there is no lef/right
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Sphinx
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Greek or Egyptian: head of human (King in Egypt, woman in Greece), body of a lion. Sometimes has wings.
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Manticore
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the cousin of the sphinx - also asks riddles, tail shoots arrows, 3 rows of teeth.
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Basilisk
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King of Snakes - wings - one look brings instant death.
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Mandrake
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It dos exists. Root. Legend is that it screams horribly.
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Apple of Sodom
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Turns to ashes in your hand to remind ppl of God's wrath
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Zieba
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Shingle-bark tree full of people
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The 70
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A group of scholars wanted to translate the books of the Old Testatment from Hebrew into Greek
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Alicorn
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believed to be a unicorn horn. antidote to poison
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Rimu/Re'em
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Rimu - syrian word for auroch
Re'em - Hebrew word for an animal. Translation not clear. Probably auroch, not monokeros (unicorn) |
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Chilin/Kilin
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Chinese Unicorn
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Mosaic evolution
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Unequal evolution of different features (ie: brain size and bipedalism)
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Biogeography
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Bilogical adaptation to environment
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Another name for Linnean hierarchies?
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Biological hierarchies
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