Tensile strength is the resistance of the fibers or particles of a body to separation, so that the amount stated is the weight or power required to tear asunder a bar of pure tin having a cross-section of one square inch.
The organism appears as fragments in fecal masses or as fibers adhering to the mucous membrane of the large intestine (Robin, 1853).
When the softest of vegetable fibers are employed the air charged with their fragments is hurtful to the lungs; still more injurious must be the spiculæ of spun glass.
Of course these fibers are inconceivably fine--indeed for this very reason it was desirable, if possible, to measure it, to discover its actual thickness.
The throwsters [those who pulled the silk fibers from the cocoons of the silk worms and twisted them together to make a thread] and the handkerchief weavers also became discontent.
The second, revolving in the same direction but much faster, carded the fibers into the requisite fineness by contact with the third, whose teeth and motion were in the opposite direction.
No roots or fibers left; our part, we agree to treat, free hence it can not return.
The economic value of the fibers of some of the species was known to the Chinese and Japanese from remote times.
In France the finer fibers are quite extensively used for the manufacture of fine veils, crapes, hats, delicate underclothing and many other articles of apparel.
The cells occurring in the cleft of the berry are straight, narrow, and long, becoming as long as 1 mm, and resemble bast fibers somewhat.
The bast fibers are as large as 1 mm long and 25 µ broad, with thick walls and very small lumina.
The fibro-vascular bundles consist mainly of bast and wood fibers and vessels.
But your lungs gasp at each stroke and your heart beats wildly; it's as if a thousand pincers were tearing all your fibers and nerves apart at once.
Those fibers had withered, and no longer conveyed nourishment; but then he became one with the masses, and thought and felt exactly as they did.
The manufacture of a hand-saw cost infinite trouble, but at last an instrument was obtained which, when vigorously handled, could divide the ligneous fibers of the wood.
This was the "hibiscus heterophyllus," which furnishes fibers of such remarkable tenacity that they have been compared to the tendons of animals.
But when a severe frost succeeded this wet period, the wood, its fibers acquiring the hardness of iron, became extremely difficult to work, and about the 10th of June shipbuilding was obliged to be entirely discontinued.
The sailor had also made snares from the long tough fibers of a certain plant, and they were even more successful than the traps.
This ladder was manufactured with extreme care, and its uprights, formed of the twisted fibers of a species of cane, had the strength of a thick cable.
The skins had then to be stretched on a frame of wood and sewn by means of fibers so as to preserve the air without allowing too much to escape.
Chalcedony too (which when banded furnishes us our agates, and when reddish our carnelian) is a variety of quartz, and prase is only quartz colored green by fibers of actinolite within it.
The fibers were straight and parallel, not curved and parallel as in synthetic ruby.
Along the column there are openings, at each joint, through which the nerves come to supply fibers to the different organs of the body.
They are always attached to movable parts; their attachment is a tendon at one end, and a fan-like distribution of their fibers at the other.
The brain is connected with distant parts of the body by means of fibers which are distributed to all parts.
It is fibrous, and if these fibers be examined under the microscope there will appear, in those under the influence of the will, transverse markings, while the muscles not under the will-power lack these markings.
These fibers are of two kinds, one set carrying the impressions to the brain, the other carrying the stimulus from the brain to the organs.
It is dome-shaped, and when its fibers are shortened it enlarges the cavity in which the lungs are situated.
Two forms of it occur; the one, nemalite, is in fibers of a white to brown color resembling asbestos, but the fibers are brittle, and hardly as fine as a typical asbestos.
In half an hour it comes out, a mass of smoking fibers as white as a snow heap.
It is packed in masses resembling the brucite, from which it only differs in breaking into fibersinstead of plates, as I have explained in my description of that species (see Part II).
It is not abundant, and the veins are limited in extent; the only distinguishment it has from the dolomite, practically, is its fibrous structure, the fibers being brittle and very coarse.
Every tree sends its fibers forth in search of the Wild.
In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibers of men's thoughts.
The delivery rollers, E, take off the fibers at a rate slightly exceeding that of the gills delivering it to them.
It thus often happens in this class of machines that a large percentage of the fibers are broken, and thus much waste is made.
These paces are of course regulated by the class and nature of the fibers under operation.
The speeds are so adjusted that the fibers are delivered to the first set of gills at a speed approximately equal to the speed at which these start their traverse.
Major Tubby thinks this a case of physiological blocking, as from a small hemorrhage amongst the fibers or around the nerve.
Bullet wounds affecting the motorfibers of the external popliteal nerve.
Because a certain configuration of the cells and fibers making up a nervous system is inherited as well as the characters of the constituent elements themselves, a worm or an insect is enabled to act as it does.
The stalk is stripped and only the tough fibersare used.
Their dress is made of cloth which they weave from carefully selected and dyed fibers of Manila hemp, and it is treated with wax in such a way as to make it very smooth and durable.
Their nests are made of vegetable fibers covered with lichens and cobwebs, and placed near the ground on vines or low-hanging bushes.
Their nest is a compact, cup-shaped structure, made of fibers and grasses, lined with plant down or cotton.
Nest usually in pines near the tops of the trees, made of roots, fibers and lined with plant down.
The number of hairs growing upon a square inch is about ten thousand; the number of wool fibers is about twenty-five thousand, or two and a half times that of the hairs.
These half wool, half hair fibers may therefore subserve some fixed requirement essential to the perfection of the whole, or they may simply be the fine boundary-lines where and exact balance between the wool and the hair is attained.
In the course of my examinations of the wild fleeces mentioned above, three fibers were found that were wool at one end and hair at the other.
The wool fibers are white and glossy, and beautifully spired into ringlets.
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