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Example sentences for "finely divided"

  • Thus near the seashores, and indeed for a considerable distance into the continent, we find the air contains a certain amount of salt so finely divided that it floats in the atmosphere.

  • This addition precipitates any arsenic present in a finely divided state, in which it is readily attacked by nascent hydrogen.

  • When precipitated or deposited in a finely divided state, the metal can be united into a single globule only if it is fairly pure; very slight fatty impurities especially will prevent the union.

  • The organs, finely divided, are extracted with water acidulated with sulphuric acid, the fluid filtered, and then alkalised and distilled.

  • Platinum wire requires to be heated, but platinum in so finely divided a state as it occurs in this ash inflames hydrogen, even at -20°.

  • The product consists of carbonate of potassa, mixed with charcoal in a finely divided state.

  • The red iron oxide, which is closely related to 'iron rust,' occurs in so finely divided a state that its particles appear to be almost as small as those of the finest clays.

  • A paste is made of finely divided silica, oil, and charcoal, and heated in a covered crucible.

  • Thus prepared, this substance, when heated to a temperature approaching a red heat, swells up to a voluminous mass of finely divided graphite.

  • Metallic mercury is detected by its liquid condition and volatility; and, when in a finely divided or pulverulent state, by the microscope, or by staining a piece of copper white when the two are rubbed together.

  • The author takes two parts of the former to three of the latter, and prepares an intimate, finely divided mixture, which is kept ready for use.

  • If finely divided zircon is boiled for a long time with caustic lye, it is perceptibly attacked.

  • By the first process the solid food is reduced, by the cutting and grinding action of the teeth, to a finely divided condition.

  • Now add to each tube about 1/4 gram of finely divided white of egg from the experiment above, and place all of the tubes in a beaker half full of water.

  • Cover a small portion of the muscle with water on a glass slide and tease out, with needles, until it is as finely divided as possible.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boat destroyers; cavalry expedition; exactly similar; finely chopped; finely divided; finely minced; finely powdered; finely serrate; finely situated; force their; foreign authors; hard snow; home life; large country; lawful money; low tone; nursing home; only surviving; public scandal; representative institutions; royal father; second crop; sewing machines; short line; this vast; when travelling