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Example sentences for "different proportions"

  • There cannot be two rates of profit in the same employment, and therefore when produce is in different proportions to capital, it is the rent which will differ, and not the profit.

  • First, when the fixed and circulating capitals were in different proportions, suppose that instead of 100l.

  • If the fixed and circulating capitals were in different proportions, or if the fixed capital were of different durability, then the relative value of the commodities produced, would be altered in consequence of a rise of wages.

  • All three powders are made of the same ingredients, but in different proportions.

  • With mixtures in different proportions of oil of turpentine, the figures formed differently, taking more of the characteristics of the adulterant as it predominated.

  • They are composed of the same materials, in different proportions; viz; feldspar, quartz, and mica.

  • Gneiss, and mica slate are of similar composition, though in different proportions, and under different arrangements.

  • Bistres and brown reds, may be obtained by mixtures of manganese, orange oxide of copper, and the oxide of iron called umber, in different proportions.

  • The ordinary alum stone, however, is rarely so pure as the above analysis would seem to show; for it contains a mixture of other substances; and the above are in different proportions.

  • Caloric, when in a state of rest, exists in different proportions, and although the actual temperature may be the same, yet the quantity of caloric in a quiescent state may be variable.

  • Beccher assumes the existence of three kinds of earth, from the combination of which, in different proportions, he supposed all the varieties of metallic substances to be produced.

  • I must again repeat, that the same substances, in different proportions, produce results that have sometimes scarcely any resemblance to each other.

  • You can no longer be surprised, therefore, that bodies of a different capacity for caloric should require different proportions of that fluid to raise their temperatures equally.

  • Different proportions of the same principles, together with the circumstances of their union, produce very different combinations; of this you will see innumerable examples.

  • Alumine and silex are not only often combined by art, but they have in nature a very strong tendency to unite, and are found combined, in different proportions, in various gems and other minerals.

  • With these same three colours, but in different proportions, we can also give the impression of white light to the eye.

  • It has also been established by numerous experiments, that different plants require different constituents in different proportions.

  • On adding azote and carbonic acid in different proportions to explosive mixtures of fire-damp, it was observed that, even in very small quantities, these gases diminished the velocity of the inflammation, or altogether destroyed it.

  • The differently shaded blues, by the action of acids, uniformly assumed the same tint; from which he concluded that the effect of the base was varied by different proportions of chalk.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been going; different ages; different breeds; different color; different conditions; different degrees; different depths; different districts; different forms; different from; different genera; different habits; different individuals; different localities; different nature; different parts; different people; different places; different positions; different sections; different species; different specimens; different stages; different type; different view; different writers