Fresh urine contains a free acid, which, by decomposing the potash soap of the yolk, counteracts the scouring operation.
The transpiration from the body of the hen, as she sits upon her eggs, counteracts this desiccation in general; yet in very dry weather, many hatching eggs fail from that cause, unless they be placed in moist decomposing straw.
The combination of the ferment stuff with acids increases the stability of its constitution, and counteracts its tendency to influence solutions of sugar.
Lowitz discovered that wood charcoal removes offensive smells from animal and vegetable substances, and counteracts their putrefaction.
An addition of quicklime counteracts the injurious effect of too much magistral, by decomposing the resulting sulphate of copper.
Vinegar dissolves or coagulates the albumen of flesh, and thereby counteracts its putrescence.
It probably counteracts morbid operations in some way that we do not understand.
Diminishing the Fibrine of the blood, and having other operations of a peculiar kind in this fluid, it powerfully promotes absorption and counteracts effusion, in all inflammations.
Light is totally contrary and gives more distinctness, and counteracts and differs from the usual darkness of the eye, hence it leaves the impression of its image.
I ask, given a weight at a what counteracts it in the direction n f and by what weight must the weight at f be counteracted.
An agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant.
Another tide is raised at the same time on the opposite side of the revolving earth; which is owing to the greater centrifugal motion of that side of the earth, which counteracts the gravitation of bodies near its surface.
The curvature of a floating bird's wings, which becomes more and more pronounced towards the rear, counteracts this yielding of the air by pressing harder upon it as it passes towards their hinder edge.
The mere suggestion that each one is working out a peculiar destiny invests even the meanest life with a solemn dignity, and counteracts any disparaging argument drawn from its brevity.
When permitted to get up patients ought to use a binder, because it counteracts the feeling of "falling to pieces" of which some complain when the abdominal walls are not comfortably supported.
Such an arrangement shows a merited appreciation of the proverbial "ounce of prevention," and when serious difficulties do arise materially counteracts the tendency to panic which is exhibited by so many young mothers.
When an elephant has happened to devour a chameleon, which is of the same colour with the herbage, it counteractsthis poison by means of the wild olive.
Embracing his body, it counteracts his struggles, and draws him under with its feelers and its numerous suckers, when, as often is the case, it happens to make an attack upon a shipwrecked mariner or a child.
The Stag counteracts the effect of poisonous plants by eating the artichoke.
The raven, when it has killed a chameleon, a contest in which even the conqueror suffers, counteracts the poison by means of laurel.
And it is no doubt the force of gravity which counteracts and destroys that of projection; but if there were no such power as gravity, would the ball never stop?
Fluids, appear to gravitate more freely, than solid bodies; for the strong cohesive attraction of the particles of the latter, in some measure counteracts the effect of gravity.
The attraction of particles frequently counteracts the attraction of gravitation.
Have you forgotten what I told you respecting the effects of heat, a fluid so subtile that it readily pervades all substances, and even in solid bodies, counteracts the attraction of cohesion?
When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.
It assists digestion, exhilarates the spirits, and counteracts the tendency to sleep.
This is true; but the end of all is that between the school which counteracts the influence of the parents and the home which counteracts the influence of the school, the child becomes a personage who is never educated at all.
In this case the strain due to the length of the line of contact partly counteracts itself, thus relieving to that extent the journals from friction.
This girder also forms the tie which connects the feet of the arch and counteracts its thrust.
This bracingcounteracts any tendency of the ribs to bend sideways under the compressive strain.
Sects and Divisions among Christians in Muhamedan Countries counteracts the Propagation of Christianity, and casts a Contempt upon Christians themselves.
A substance that counteracts or neutralizes acidity.
Prayaschitta counteracts such Dosha, and therefore it is Guna.
It is the wear and tear, the process of destruction, that counteracts the cohesive strength of the particles forming mineral matter, which by its action becomes flexible and so receptive of outside influences.
The slight cohesion caused by the water which moistens the plate counteracts the centrifugal force, and so prevents the egg-shell falling off the edge of the plate.
This tendency the performer counteracts by drawing it partially back through the slip-knot at each pretended tightening.
Because the pressure of the air upon the opening of the tap counteracts the weight of the beer.
But when the spile is driven in, the air enters at the top, and counteracts its own pressure at the bottom.
Because the pressure of the atmosphere upon the surface of the card counteracts the weight of the water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counteracts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
