The best method of estimating minute quantities is to alkalise the liquid, and slowly distil the vapour through a red-hot combustion-tube charged with pure lime, as in the process described at p.
The old method of distillation was to distil by the gentle heat of a water-bath, receiving the distillate in a little weak potash water, and not prolonging the process beyond a few hours.
The lighter petroleums will distil by the aid of a water-bath; but the heavier require a stronger heat; redistillation of the distillate may be necessary.
The detection and estimation of chloroform= from organic substances is not difficult, its low boiling-point causing it to distil readily.
To obtain the last traces of arsenic it may be necessary to distil it twice in this way, adding, each time, fresh strong acid and distilling to dryness.
O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain That shall distil from these two ancient urns, Than youthful April shall with all his show'rs.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out; For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful and good husbandry.
It is not, indeed, very common to distil for private use, though it is done sometimes.
It is difficult to imagine any equitable reason, why those who either brew or distil for private use should not be subject to a composition of the same kind.
Old Man Selden's said to distil jackass brandy, but it's never been proved.
I'm bettin' Standard'll be wild when he learns Old Man won't distil any more.
I shall distil your balance with equal care; and I accompany each of your donations with a like sum of my own.
Distil and the benzoic acid will pass over, extract the distillate in the usual way and apply the above test to it for benzoic acid.
Strain through a cotton bag and transfer the filtrate to a short-necked flask and distil receiving the first part of the distillate in a solution of iodin.
Place in a distilling flask, and distil in a linseed oil or a paraffin bath till 30 cc.
The aromatic amines in some respects resemble the aliphatic amines, since they form salts with acids, and double salts with platinum chloride, and they also distil without decomposition.
They crystallize in plates, and for the most part distilwithout decomposition.
Destructively distil the following substances down to a point just short of carbonization, so that the residuum can be taken out of the retort, powdered, and acted on by all the solvents just as the asphalt in previous page.
After you can go no further, distil off all the solvents so the asphalt material has a tar-like consistency.
They know how to raise handsome girls, distil good whisky, and breed fast horses.
In the taxicab, en route to the Theatre Max, he contrived even to distil a good omen from the driving autumnal downpour itself.
I do not attempt to distil them out of fact as physicists distiltheir laws.
What these others can get in their temples we, after our own manner, must distil through sleepless and lonely nights, from unavoidable humiliations, from the smarting of bruised shins.
Since," he reflected, "it is necessary for me to supply this hypothetical average human being with what he wants, I shall have to find out how to distil him from all the ingredients around me.
And when the acid Particles, which alone would distil with an easy Heat, will not separate from the Particles of the Metal without a very violent Heat, does not this confirm the Attraction between them?
They find also, that if Oils be poured in a small quantity upon fermentating Vegetables, they distilover after fermentation in the form of Spirits.
And whence is it but from this attractive Power that Water which alone distils with a gentle luke-warm Heat, will not distil from Salt of Tartar without a great Heat?
The Church sings that the heavens everywheredistil honey.
Here on the corner, she paused to don her coat; for the low-swinging draperies of the painted skies had begun to distil upon the city a gentle drizzle, soft and warm.
But today he essayed vainly to distil from contemplation of it any of the rare glamour of yesterday's zeal and faith.
Here, if thou wilt, on these arid sands, thou mayst find thy Garden of Omar, and even from the daily tasks which prick thee sorest mayst distil some precious attar to bless thee and thy fellow man.
Here, if thou wilt, in these arid sands, thou mayst find thy Garden of Omar, and from these daily tasks that prick thee sorest distil some precious attar to sweeten all life!
You are the alchemist whose courage and hope shall help me distil some drop of Contentment out of this dreary existence.
Take of Lavender flowers one gallon, to which pour three gallons of the best spirits of wine, let them stand together in the sun six days, then distil them with an Alembick with this refrigeratory.
Mint water strengthens the stomach, helps concoction and stays vomiting, distil it in the latter end of May, or beginning of June, as the year is in forwardness or backwardness, observe that in all the rest.
Distil it in the end of May, or beginning of June.
Not out of the sins of your youth only, but out of the best, the most watchful, and the most blameless day you ever live, distil your half-pint of repentance every night before you sleep.
A lamp also burns on those crutches; and wine and oil distil from their wonderful wood.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew.
The next year, little is done to the mint-field but to cut and distil its product.
The third year, little labor is required other than to harvest and distil the mint.
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