Endeavours were made to enforce the importance and value of the desiccation of woods to the builder, cabinet maker, architect, and civil engineer, so long back as 1843, but without success.
The difference between its present weight and its original weight (before thedesiccation in a), taken in grains, gives the gross quantity of water per cent.
As soon as its consistence permits, detach from it irregular pieces, and place them to dry in the open air upon filtering paper; the spontaneous desiccation is sufficiently rapid.
The eruption terminates when desiccation commences in the first pustules; and, if some red spots show themselves at that period of the malady, they disappear without being followed by the development of pustules.
The desiccation and the desquamation occupy an exceedingly variable length of time; and so, indeed, do all the different periods of the disease.
Still later changes in the character of the northern plains owing to desiccation divided the range of the species and isolated S.
Desiccation of the intermontane parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Chihuahua, left "marooned" populations of Sorex vagrans on suitable mountain ranges.
And for this reason it is necessary to try, after the first desiccation of this Salt, which is called Regenerated Tartar, whether or no the just point of saturation hath been attained.
Bacteria, however, survive this desiccation process much better when they are herded together in large numbers than when they have to face such untoward conditions as isolated individuals.
Ample opportunity was thus given for its desiccation and subsequent distribution as dust.
An insect pin is then passed through the cephalothorax of each individual and is inserted in the support upon which the final desiccation is to take place.
I do not estimate the time necessary for desiccation as being very long, since the zoologist can occupy himself with other subjects while the specimens are drying.
Some French writer has called such a condition of desiccation of the heart's interior.
He considered the desiccation of his friend's heart in its interior portions with respect, even with sympathy.
When desiccation was carried far enough, such materials could be used, in interiors at least, so as to fulfil the same functions as stone or burnt brick.
The desiccation produced by the almost vertical sun of Mesopotamia allowed it to be used with safety and advantage in certain parts of a building.
A few weeks were sufficient to learn all that was to be learnt about the kneading and moulding of the earth, its desiccationin the sun or burning in the kiln.
Thirst is often very great in consequence of this, and of the desiccation of the tongue and of the walls of the mouth by the unmodified air to which they are continuously exposed.
More frequently a desiccationof some of these products ensues, with permanent chronic inflammation.
Often, however, desiccation is carried on in copper ovens heated directly over a lamp (fig.
The process of desiccation can be further accelerated by cooling the upper portion of the desiccator, and so inducing ascending and descending currents of air within the apparatus.
Desiccation proceeds still better under the receiver of an air pump, for then the aqueous vapour is formed more quickly than in a bell jar full of air.
Regnault, six parts in a hundred of oxide of iron; and its colour, at first black, changes to yellowish brown by desiccation and the contact of air.
Within half a century, and particularly within these thirty years, the natural desiccation of this great basin has excited general attention.
Even slight desiccation contracts the volume and shortens the course of interior drainage streams; therefore it narrows the piedmont zone of vegetation and the hem of tillage along the river banks.
Thirdly, where a progressive desiccation seems to have taken place, it is often a question whether less rain is actually falling, or whether the inhabitants have less capacity and less energy than formerly.
A gradual desiccation of the region is therefore believed to have taken place, but to-day the equatorial rain belt seems to be again advancing farther north, giving an increased rainfall.
Thus we have many accounts of a gradual desiccation which seems to have been going on over a large region in Central Asia during historical times.
If the theory of desiccation be correct, the idea that the Dead Sea was first formed at the time when the Cities of the Plain were overthrown is a fallacy.
From these observations we infer the gradualdesiccation of the Jordan Valley; the BeisAcn Lake and the Jericho end of the Dead Sea having disappeared.
Thorough desiccation is essential in order to prevent subsequent mouldiness or disease of the grain.
It does not coagulate milk, but imparts to it a characteristic taste and is unable to withstand desiccation for more than a few days.
Contrary to what one would expect in an organism existing in keffir grains, this streptococcus is as little able to withstand desiccation as the above-mentioned yeast.
You have, ladies, a feeble delineation of the benefits which Doctor Meiser hoped to pour upon Europe by introducing the desiccation of man.
Finally, in order that my nephew Nicholas Meiser may exactly understand the duties I leave him to perform, I have resolved to inscribe here a detailed account of the desiccation of Colonel Fougas, my sole heir.
I certainly found myself in the best possible situation for subjecting the human body to a process of gradual desiccation without sudden interruption of the functions, or disorganization of the tissues or fluids.
The red globules which desiccation had agglutinated, had become motionless like ships stranded in shoal water.
Now the human body contains nearly four-fifths of its own weight of water, as is proved by a desiccation thoroughly made in a chemical drying furnace.
He did not think that the resuscitation of a healthy man, desiccated with precaution, was impossible in theory; he thought also, that the process of desiccation indicated by the illustrious John Meiser was the best to follow.
Rhizopoda are not exposed to the effects ofdesiccation or frost, and thus the strongest motives for the process of encystment do not exist, at least among forms possessing a shell.
In the instances of more fleshy fungi, such as the Boleti, Polyporei, and Coprinus, more rapid desiccation is necessary.
When the desiccation was completed, artificial eyes were put in, some features of the face were changed, and particularly the upper lip.
I investigated some of these caverns, and can assert that I observed bodies so light fromdesiccation that they could be raised with one hand as easily as if they were a walking stick.
Desiccation is preceded by a more or less prolonged immersion, according to the thickness of the organs in acid or saline solutions, &c.
When the desiccation is slow, or the moisture is excessive, the byssus sometimes develops on its surface, but this may be washed off, and a layer of varnish will prevent new vegetations.
Desiccation and immersion in liquids are the only means of preservation.
Further, each of the preparations which tend to desiccation has its particular inconvenience: thus those of the deuto-chloride are numerous, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, and as have remarked in this the authors whom we have cited.
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