The carbonic acid given out by decaying leaves, when taken up by water, serves to dissolve the mineral constituents of the soil, and is particularly active in disintegrating feldspar and the clay derived from its decomposition.
Footnote: Palissy had observed the action of frost in disintegrating rock, and he thus describes it, in his essay on the formation of ice: "I know that the stones of the mountains of Ardennes be harder than marble.
Rousseau is, from any moral or social or national point of view, a force of much more disintegrating power than Nietzsche can ever be.
It had decayed in the spring, disintegrating the girls more than they knew, and causing either to accost unfamiliar regions.
The material of which they are composed, a brittle jet, though better suited than the stone to resist the disintegrating influences, is in most cases greatly too fragile for preservation.
A repressed desire is buried, shut away from thedisintegrating effects of sunlight and air.
On this point he says: Exalting emotions have an intense synthesizing effect, while depressing emotions have a disintegrating effect.
Creeds lose their chiselled outline, and crumble away in the disintegrating medium of Javanese thought, which blends them into each other with changing colour and borrowed light.
Unexpectedly he was almost cold, and self-contained; he saw the gilded angle of a frame on the wall, heard the hickory disintegrating on the hearth.
Such a condition would probably add not a little to the disintegrating power of the ocean.
Scuta; the lines of growth are but little prominent: the surface is generally covered by disintegrating membrane.
The lawlessness of the clans reacted on the life of the Church, and instead of the Church overcoming the malign and disintegrating influences by which it was assailed, it was unhappily overcome by them.
The time came when they had, perforce, to yield to those disintegrating processes which usually herald the advent of reform.
Repression, we repeat for the hundredth time, is a disintegrating force.
It is an extraordinary fact that the fundamental economic problem of a Europe starving and disintegrating before their eyes, was the one question in which it was impossible to arouse the interest of the Four.
We have no gold--only things which a world fast disintegrating into isolated peasantries is learning somehow to do without.
The War has left us a defective or perverted social sense, with a group of instincts and moralities that are disintegrating Western society, and will, unless checked, destroy it.
But before we try to find it, we had better disconnect one of the stern motors and rig it as a disintegrating ray so that we will have one bearing in each direction.
We'll have to rig up a disintegrating ray for him.
Did it never occur to you that the rocket motor is built on a disintegrating ray principle?
We landed on the plain and in an hour had a second disintegrating ray ready for action.
Of course the water concentrated in mass and force below the present Falls must have proved vastly more effective in disintegrating and breaking down the shale and limestone than it possibly can be at any point above.
It had a faint, disintegrating smell of meals about it, and my most immediate impression was of the remarkable fact that something was hung about or wrapped round or draped over everything.
But there are many reasons why this dangerous and disintegrating tendency must be rigorously excluded from Roman Catholicism.
Newman's influence was disturbing and subtly disintegrating to every cause for which he laboured.
The French Revolution, which was a disintegrating solvent, pulverised society, and was impotent to reconstruct it.
If, instead of that energy just oozing away and the uranium disintegrating infinitesimally each year, it could be exploded at a given moment you could drive an ocean liner with a handful of it.
I can't make very powerful disintegratingrays yet, but I can break down uranium, which is the easiest of all.
The capsule is made of zircorundum, and we shall get only a trace of the disintegrating rays before it blows up.
It isn't quite what I want though, because the disintegrating rays which the ring discharge gives out break down the zirconium, which isn't an end-product of radioactivity.
It would be quite feasible, quite simple--all one would need would be thedisintegrating ray.
I'll bet you the Savaroff disintegrating rays come from the spots and not from the whole surface of the sun!
There, too, swung far out from the side of the ring on a framework of steel, was the thermic inductor which had played the disintegrating Ray upon the Atlas Mountains and the great cannon of Von Heckmann.
That capsule contains a mixture of vapours that give out disintegrating rays when the temperature is raised by thermic induction above six thousand.
For all we yet know, some of the mountain ranges which seem most rapidly disintegrating may, in fact, still be growing.
A given kind of rock subjected to the action of frost and the other disintegrating forces operative at high levels, usually breaks up into debris of a roughly uniform average size.
The scales are fringed with browndisintegrating membrane.
So far it has had no very markedly disintegrating effect on the caste system, and the status of a caste is still mainly fixed by its traditional occupation; but signs are not wanting of a coming change.
The mark is made with Ganges clay, sandalwood, or cowdung cakes, these last being considered to represent the disintegrating force of the deity.
