Each of these 19 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
a family of beetles, usually large, large, ado adorned with brilliant metallic colors, and either wingless or having wings not adapted for flying. The bombardier beetle belongs to this family. CARABINE. See CARBINE.
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a state of Venezuela, between the Caribbean Sea and the state of Zamora; area, 2,974 square miles; pop. about 200,000, mostly inhabiting the fer- CARACAL tile depression of Lake Valencia, where large crops of coffee, sugar, and excellent cacao are grown. Capital, Valencia; chief port, Puerto Cabello.
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a species of lynx, the Felis caracal of Linnæus, of a reddishbrown color, with black ears, tipped with long, black hair. It is a native of Africa, India, Persia, and Turkey.
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the name given to the birds of the sub-family Polyborinæ, which is an aberrant one belonging to the Falconidæ. They Th are found in South America, and feed on carrion.
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the brown mass which cane-sugar becomes at 220° C., used in cookery as a coloring and flavoring ingredient, in giving a brown color to spirits, etc. The name of a certain preparation of candy.
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The plating baths of a large establishment are made up to have the same alloy in them as is intended to be used in the anode, that is, 18k, 16k, 14k, etc., by adding cyanide of copper and cyanide of silver, or chloride of silver, to the gold bath above described. Or it may be made by battery, as described above, and any article intended to receive a certain quality of plate is put into its appropriate bath, weighed from time to time, and when it has received the allotted number of pennyweights, is given to the finishers.
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CARAVANor SERAI, a large public building, or inn, for the reception and lodgment of caravans in the desert. Though serving instead of inns, there is this essential difference between them, that the traveler finds nothing in the caravansary for the use either of himself or his cattle, but must carry all his provisions and necessaries with him. Caravansaries are also numerous in cities, where they serve not only as inns, but as shops, warehouses, and even exchanges.
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the name of different kinds of vessels, particularly a small ship used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries for long voyages. It was narrow at the poop, wide at the bow, and carried a CARAVEL double tower at its stern and a single one at its bows. It had four masts and a bowsprit, and the principal sails were lateen sails. It was in command of three such caravels that Columbus crossed the Atlantic and discovered America.
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a compound formed by the union of carbon with an element, as iron or hydrogen.
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a fire-arm used by cavalry and artillery, shorter in the barrel than the ordinary musket or rifle. It was used by light cavalry as early as the 16th century.
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or CARABINEERS, formerly light horsemen, used chicfly to watch and harass the enemy, defend narrow passes, and act as skirmishers. The corresponding modern terms are hussars and lancers.
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any one of a large group of compounds, containing six carbon atoms or some multiple of six, and hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion in which nich they form water: that is, twice as many hydrogen as oxygen atoms.
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or BISUL- PHIDE, a colorless liquid produced by burning carbon in an atmosphere of sulphur, or by distilling certain of the metallic sulphides with charcoal; sp. gr. 1.268. It is of great use in a large variety of manufacturing processes, and as a solvent.
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kar-bo-na'ri, a secret revolutionary society in Italy. It was formed in the days of Napoleon to drive out the French. It was prolonged to expel the Austrians and to unite Italy. The name signifies charcoal burners. Their places of meeting were called huts; Italy, the forest; and their enemies, the wolves. They were known to each other as good cousins. They had no central organization. Their number, therefore, is not known, but is estimated at half a million in 1820-1. They imitated many observances of the Masons. The order was succeeded by Young Italy, founded by Mazzini.
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a city in Lackawanna co., Pa., on the Lackawanna river, and the Erie, Erie, the New York, Ontario and Western, and the Delaware and Hudson railroads: 16 miles N. E. of Scranton. It is in the center of an extensive coalmining district; and contains many machine shops, car shops, foundries, etc. Carbondale has a National bank, several churches, a Roman Catholic academy, several newspapers, etc. Pop. (1910) 17,040; (1920) 18,640.
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a term applied to the extensive and thick series of strata with which seams of palæozoic coal are more or less immediately associated. It is applied as well to that great system of formations which yield our main supply of coal, or to some divisions of that system, such as the Carboniferous limestone and the Carboniferous slates. It is also applied to the fossils found in any stratum belonging to the system.
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. See Coal
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the Carboniferous succeeds the old Red Sandstone or some other member of the Devonian system, and passes upward into the Permian series. Its constituent groups vary much in the thicknesses of their sandstones, clays, limestones, and coals in different parts of the world, according to their conditions of deposition in conterminous seas, estuaries, and lagoons. Carboniferous fossils comprise labyrinthodont and other amphibia; heterocercal fishes of many forms; numerous insects, myriapods, and arachnids; crustaceans of all orders except the highest decapods; mollusks of all the known orders; polyzoa; corals of the "rugose" kind; foraminifera; and some plants of the conifer and cycad groups, but far more of the fern, equisetum, and lycopod orders. The Carboniferous Limestone consists of corals, encrinites, shells, and foraminifera of a great sea, with muds, sands, and coal-beds on its margins. These Black Prince. Of several fine churches constitute the coal-measures of Russia, Styria, Italy, Corsica, the Boulonnais, etc., and the Lower coal-measures of Scotland. CARBORUNDUM. See ABRASIVES.
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To convert into carbon by combustion, or the action of fire, or any other means, as the carburization of malleable iron by the addition thereto of carbon, through solid or gaseous carbonaceous matters. See CEMENTATION; CRUCIBLE STEEL.
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