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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
vortex-ring .
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Examples
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The generation of a ring-vortex is of course equally beyond the power of natural causes, but once generated, it has the properties of individuality, permanence in quantity, and indestructibility.
Five of Maxwell's Papers James Clerk Maxwell 1855
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Even in the present undeveloped state of the theory, the contemplation of the individuality and indestructibility of a ring-vortex in a perfect fluid cannot fail to disturb the commonly received opinion that a molecule, in order to be permanent, must be a very hard body.
Five of Maxwell's Papers James Clerk Maxwell 1855
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