The burner of one type consists of a metal dish packed with a porous material which is non-inflammable, but a good conductor of liquids by capillary attraction, and the top is covered over by a wire screen.
The wick carries the oil from the bowl into the burner by capillary attraction--one end being in the oil and the other in the burner.
Stoves with wicks draw the alcohol up by capillaryattraction to the point of ignition, and the metal jacket about the wick prevents the fire burning back into the bowl containing the alcohol.
My impression is that when the ground is dry there is a minimum of capillary attraction between it and the clouds, and though the sky may look threatening they do not easily break into rain.
On the other hand, when the ground is thoroughly wet and evaporation is active, capillary attraction tends to unite earth and clouds, and rain results.
I propose to force water through and out of this tube; capillary attraction will not expel a liquid from a tube if its mouth be above the surface of the supply.
Even in countries where all the water below the immediate surface of the earth is briny, the running springs, if of capillary origin, are pure and fresh.
By capillary attraction, assisted by gravitation, part of the water of the ocean is being transferred through this stratum to the underground cavity.
Break the tube one-eighth of an inch above the water (far below the present capillary surface), and it will not overflow.
He dipped the tip of a capillary tube into a tumbler of water; the water rose inside the tube about an inch above the surface of the water in the tumbler.
You have deceived me," I said; "I know well enough that capillary attraction will draw a liquid above its surface.
When the bronchitis is of the capillary form, the great object is to maintain the patient's strength, and to endeavour to secure the expulsion of the morbid secretion from the fine bronchi.
For the convenience of those who may have barometers, the capillary action of which has not been determined, a table of corrections for tubes of different diameters is placed in the Appendix, Table I.
The second correction required is for the capillary action of the tube, the effect of which is always to depress the mercury in the tube by a certain quantity inversely proportioned to the diameter of the tube.
Correction to be added to Barometers forCapillary Action.
The globules of the blood, which in themselves can be shown to take no share in the nutritive process, serve to transport the oxygen which they give up in their passage through the capillary vessels.
The capillary theory may not, probably does not, play part in every case.
Reduction of ocular tension by stimulation of osmosis, of lymphagog activity, of absorption of edema, and of capillary contractility, and by decreasing affinity of ocular colloids for water.
Capillary blood pressure must lie between the arterial blood pressure and the venous blood pressure.
The relation of osmosis, lymphagogue activity, absorption of edema, capillary contractility and decreased affinity of ocular colloids for water to the reduction of increased intra-ocular tension.
Thus, it would seem, that draining may modify the force of capillary attraction, while it cannot affect that of adhesive attraction.
This they cannot do, because the water from a higher source, with the aid of capillary attraction, and the friction or resistance met with in percolation, will keep up this head of water far above the drained level.
It is impossible to set limits to so uncertain a power as this of capillary attraction.
This power is called capillary attraction, from the hair-like tubes used in early experiments.
The tendency of water is to lie level in the soil; but capillary attraction and mechanical obstructions offer constant resistance to this tendency.
It is an interesting fact that the blood proteins do not pass freely through the capillary walls, although the digestion products of food proteins, do.
The products of protein digestion and glucose pass through the lining membrane of the intestine and through the capillarywalls directly into the blood stream and are carried along in it.
The colorless corpuscles are able to make their way through the capillary walls and so also do nearly all the substances that are dissolved in the blood.
In fact there is a condition of greatly lowered vitality to which the name “shock” is applied, in which the blood proteins escape through the capillary walls to so great an extent as to interfere with the proper working of the body.
It is now believed that it is because of this gelatinous nature that the blood proteins are not able to pass out through the capillary walls, and this is supposed to be important in the proper working of the circulation.
In order for material to get from the blood to any living cell, then, it must pass through the wall of the capillary into the fluid which fills the tissue space and from that in turn to the cell itself.
Finally the capillary may become completely surrounded by bone, but all along it will be left the passages through which fluid can make its way from the blood to where the cells are imprisoned within the bony walls of their own construction.
This is accomplished by what is known as capillary attraction.
Then pass a glass tube with a capillary bore, through a cork, which you have previously made to closely fit the bottle, and cork the bottle well.
Fill a very fine wire-gauze sieve with water, and it will not run through the interstices, but be retained among them by capillary attraction.
The same invigorating force impels the circulation of the sap through the capillary tubes of the forest tree, until the topmost branch trembles with the new flow of life.
Capillary force raises the fluids through the tubes in the stalk, and conveys them to the veins in the leaves, while the endosmose force diffuses them through the vegetable tissues.
He had no capillarysubstance on the top of his cranium, The place where the capillary substance ought to vegetate.
Achenes short, oblong or columnar, striate, not beaked; pappus a single row of tawny and fragile capillary rough bristles.
Pappus of copious straw-color or brownish and rough capillary bristles.
Aquatic and immersed, with capillary dissected leaves bearing little bladders, which float the plant at the time of flowering; or rooting in the mud, and sometimes with few or no leaves or bladders.
Rheumatism is merely a form of congestion throughout the capillary vessels of the body.
Accompanying the instrument are a number of short capillary tubes in metal handles.
Having punctured the finger-tip or lobe of the ear as already described, wipe off the first drop of blood, and from the second fill one of the capillary tubes.
After use, clean the metal cylinder with water, and wash the capillary tube with water, alcohol, and ether, successively.
Too slow manipulation, allowing a little of the blood to coagulate and remain in the capillary portion of the pipet.
Malpighi (1687) seems to have been the first to observe them, and he took them for capillary tubes.
They are typical wandering cells carried to all parts of the body by the blood stream, but often leave that stream and gain the tissue spaces by passing through the capillary wall.
As the capillary veins run through every part of the human body, and the combustion of blood takes place in the capillary veins, therefore every part of the body is warm.
The fine fibres of the cambric have a strong capillary attraction for moisture; and are excellent conductors of heat: thus the moisture and heat are both abstracted from the face, and a sensation of coolness is produced.
Animal heat is produced by the combustion of hydrogen and carbon in the capillary veins.
The coarse fibres of cotton have much less capillary attraction, and are nothing like such good conductors as linen: and, therefore, wiping the face with a cotton handkerchief, increases the sensation of warmth.
This is a wise providence to keep our bodies in health; in order that the body itself may not be consumed, it gives notice (by hunger) that the capillary fires need replenishing.
The wick of a candle is wet with grease, because the melted tallow runs up the cotton from capillary attraction.
Because it produces quicker respiration; by which means a larger amount of oxygen is introduced into the lungs, and the capillarycombustion increased.
This latter escapes into the air-sacs as the fluid courses through the delicate capillary tubes.
In all the parts thus supplied, the vessels at length break up into a delicate capillary network, so that the blood-fluid is separated from the tissue-cells only by the delicate organic film of the capillary walls.
Let us now follow the purified stream, with its oxygen-laden blood-discs, as it leaves the capillary tubes of the lungs.
Around these little sacs courses the blood in a network of minute capillary vessels, the walls of which are so thin and delicate that the fluid they contain is only separated from the gas within the sacs by a film of organic tissue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capillary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
