It was formerly the custom to graduate the apparatus intended for use in quantitative work into parts of equal capacity; for example, into cubic centimetres and fractions of cubic centimetres.
Blow a fresh bulb on one end of this and again draw it out, proceeding in this way till you have a tube about six or eight centimetres in length.
The tube A is of brass, and has a side tube B brazed to it, ten to twelve centimetres from the end E, according to the dimensions of the tube.
Gestoso says that the usual diameter of these plates is either twenty-three centimetres or forty-two centimetres.
The transportal of the liquid matter to Bondy is effected by means of a machine of twenty-five horse-power, through a conduit thirty centimetres in diameter, which follows the right bank of the canal de l'Ourcq.
On each side is a banquette, or sidewalk, ninety centimetres wide.
Samples not having these indications shall only be admitted free of duty when they do not exceed 40 centimetres in any dimension.
In order to avoid abuse, the samples declared for free entry must have cuts at every 20 centimetres of their width, so as to render them unfit for any other purpose.
Laugerie, is engraved on a piece of reindeer antler about twenty-five centimetres long.
At Blendowo in Poland, beneath a cromlech was found an urn filled with calcined bones, and thirty centimetres lower down a skeleton was discovered buried in the sand.
The Museum of Lund possesses two flint fish-books of a curved shape, one of them, which is four centimetres long by nearly three wide, was found by the seashore; the other and smaller one came front the shores of Lake Kranke.
They then form columns which may be five metres long, and as much as fifty centimetres wide.
It is plain that some such circulation must exist, for how could a membrane be formed 30 centimetres from the seed if the membranogenous substance did not circulate through the stem?
In this solution we can obtain osmotic growths which may attain to a height of 40 centimetres or more, vegetable forms, roots, arborescent twigs, leaves, and terminal organs.
It necessitates several cubic centimetres of the liquid under examination.
He thus describes his experiment: "We place in a perfectly clean test tube a few cubic centimetres of perfectly pure mercury.
Their form is that of an ovoid or flattened sphere, and they may attain a diameter of seven centimetres or more.
Between the Scylla of convection currents at higher pressures and the Charybdis of radiometer action at lower pressures, there seems to be a channel at a pressure of about two or three centimetres of mercury.
The shortest wave which Hertz succeeded in producing was 24 centimetres long, but since then waves as little as 6 millimetres long have been produced.
The stone is twenty-two centimetres high, and seventy-eight centimetres wide, and is completely covered by the inscriptions.
Here we have the reason why, in the intertropical torrid zone, where the temperature scarcely varies above two or three degrees in the whole year, the invariable curve is not found more than forty centimetres beneath the surface.
Where liquids are being assayed, cubic centimetres are held to be equivalent to grams, and the usual method of statement is, "so many parts by weight in so many by measure.
She measured the distances every week, and when she was here a few days ago she told me she had in three days gained 4 centimetres with her left and 6 centimetres with her right eye.
In the early morning there were two centimetres of ice on the artillery buckets, and towards noon we were glad to be in our shirtsleeves.
Gold chloride is dissolved in boiling water; the solution is filtered, and the filtrate so far diluted, that 200 cubic centimetres contain 0.
Thirty cubic centimetres of fresh milk were placed in a test tube with one gram of borax.
A little tube of silver plate, 2 centimetres long and as thick as a straw, with a small mussel-shaped widening at one end, which is wrapped in cotton wool, to be inserted in the ear.
If the instrument is correctly graduated, every ten cubic centimetres of water at 60.
Filter, and after expelling the alcohol from 100 cubic centimetres of the liquid by distillation, add to the residue a titrated solution of iodo-hydrargyrate of potassium until a filtered portion ceases to be affected by this reagent.
The whole must be kept in its place by means of moderate pressure with the fingers, until a red ring, about 2 centimetres in breadth, is observed round the glass, when it is certain that vesication is effected.
The first, in a childish round text hand, filling a sheet of paper twenty-three centimetres long by sixteen centimetres wide, is better written than those of her after life.
The elevation of its soil is not more than 50 centimetres above the level of the river: in the middle it is however a little higher, which facilitates the running of the waters.
Their backs rose about 30 centimetres above the water: several of them appeared to us to be at least 10 metres in length.
At day-break, on the 5th, there were two metres seventy centimetres water in the hold, and the pumps could no longer work with effect: it was decided we ought to quit the vessel as soon as possible.
At the end of the fourth lunar month the fetus is ten to seventeen centimetres long.
At the end of the second month the fetus is two and a half centimetres long.
At the end of the third lunar month the fetus is seven to ninecentimetres long.
I may mention that it has been tested to resist an interior pressure of much more than 12 centimetres of "water"; in fact, its gas valves open at that pressure only.
The axis of the stem is about six centimetres in its greatest diameter, and consists of a central pith-cylinder and two concentric coats of scalariform tissue.
The leaves are as much as forty centimetres in length.
The only species known to me is represented by a stem 2·5 centimetres in diameter, slightly wrinkled and pitted externally, perhaps by traces of aërial roots which have perished.
The leaves are from twenty to ninety centimetres in length.
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