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Lycopodium  n.  (Bot.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceae; club moss.
Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceae. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of lightning.





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... Vibrating Surfaces, in which he solved an acoustical problem which, though of extreme simplicity when solved, appears to have baffled many eminent men. The problem was to account for the fact that light bodies, such as the seed of lycopodium, collected at the vibrating parts of sounding plates, while sand ran to the nodal lines. Faraday showed that the light bodies were entangled in the little whirlwinds formed in the air over the places of vibration, and through which the heavier sand was readily projected. Faraday's ...
— Faraday As A Discoverer • John Tyndall


Words linked to "Lycopodium" :   Lycopodium selago, Lycopodium alpinum, Lycopodium clavitum, Lycopodium complanatum, clubmoss family, fern genus, genus Lycopodium, Lycopodiaceae, Lycopodium alopecuroides


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