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Example sentences for "flocculent"

Lexicographically close words:
floateth; floating; floats; floaty; floccose; flocculi; flock; flocke; flocked; flockes
  1. After eleven days there was still no apparent change, though on the thirteenth a slight amount of flocculent sediment was noticed.

  2. On the tenth day there was no distinct opalescence of the fluid, but a well-marked whitish flocculent deposit.

  3. After twelve days there was still no general turbidity, though there was a slight flocculent deposit of an uncertain nature.

  4. They are very flexible, and easily reducible into a flocculent mass.

  5. I visited one about a mile from the cantonment, which deposits a yellow sulphurous flocculent mass along its course.

  6. Left to itself and exposed to the air after the first day, there begins to appear suspended in it a cottony-looking cloud, and, at the same time, a flocculent whitish matter is deposited at the bottom of the fluid.

  7. The inner surface of the uterus is lined by a smooth or somewhat flocculent membrane of a reddish colour, which is continued superiorly into the Fallopian tubes; inferiorly it becomes the lining membrane of the vagina.

  8. The contained fluid is thin, greyish, and contains flocculent solid particles.

  9. The membrane presented a flocculent appearance, in some places distinctly fibrous, in others was thin and transparent; its internal surface was irregular, as if from the deposition of minute granules of recent lymph.

  10. The quantity of flocculent deposit in the chamber of the aqueous humor is also in direct ratio to the inflammation of the iris.

  11. The greater part of the vegetable albumen is thus coagulated, and must be separated by a fresh filtration; the liquid is afterwards treated with alcohol as long as the flocculent precipitate of diastase falls.

  12. This flocculent matter is a mixture of cupreous soap and ferruginous soap, that is, a combination of the oxides of copper and iron with the margaric acid of the soda soap.

  13. Alum may in general be examined by water of ammonia, which separates from its watery solutions its earthy basis, in the form of a light flocculent precipitate.

  14. That the liquor in the beating vat absorbs oxygen from the air in proportion as the indigo becomes flocculent and granular, has been ascertained by experiment, as well as that sunshine accelerates the separation of the indigo blue.

  15. Another sort of pearl-powder is prepared by adding a very dilute solution of common salt to the above nitric solution of bismuth, whereby a pulverulent sub-chloride of the metal is obtained in a light flocculent form.

  16. I would suggest the full, heavy rubbing coat as the most effective aid in avoiding brushmarks and in drowning out the dust motes and flocculent matter to be noted as part and parcel of the skimpy brushed on coat of varnish.

  17. This mass, which on cooling is made up of yellow crystals imbedded in a red vitreous matrix, is then dissolved in hot water forming a clear red solution or at most one containing but a small quantity of a brown flocculent precipitate.

  18. On cooling there separated a light yellow flocculent precipitate very soluble in hot water and but slightly less so in cold.

  19. If the mass is treated with water it partly dissolves leaving a dark brown flocculent precipitate which dissolves on the addition of an alkali, the solution having an intense fluorescence, nearly if not quite equaling that of fluoresceïn.

  20. This forms a salt with the amido acid and throws down the tin as Sn(OH){2}, a white flocculent precipitate.

  21. This was treated with water which dissolved a part leaving a dark flocculent precipitate.

  22. At first the flocculent decomposed matter will rise to the surface of the water, but before many minutes it will settle to the bottom of the glass and leave clear water above.

  23. The product of decomposition is a flocculent matter which moves upwardly through the water, giving it a milky appearance.

  24. Complete digestion, at any rate in the Calcutta form, takes several days to accomplish, and after the process is finished a flocculent mass of colourless excreta is emitted from the mouth.

  25. Brown or orange individuals recently captured in a pond and kept in favourable conditions take three or four days to digest their food, and the excreta ejected from the mouth then take the form of a white flocculent mass.

  26. If the flocculent character was occasioned by the presence of magnesium hydroxide, the second precipitation, in a smaller volume containing fewer salts, will often result more favorably.

  27. A large excess of the magnesium solution tends both to throw out magnesium hydroxide (shown by a persistently flocculent precipitate) and to cause the phosphate to carry down molybdic acid.

  28. The ferric sulphate usually has a silky appearance and is easily distinguished from the flocculent silica which often remains undissolved.

  29. A flocculent residue will often remain after the decomposition of the fused mass is effected.

  30. This frequently breaks up into scales, spines, bristles, minute flocculent or powdery masses, and these vary in size and in many species disappear as the plant matures.

  31. The ampules of “Collosol Ferrum” contained a considerable quantity of flocculent precipitate.

  32. Very turbid with large quantities of a lemon yellow flocculent precipitate.

  33. A brown coloured liquid was obtained, which when treated with a slight excess of hydrochloric acid gave an abundant flocculent precipitate.

  34. Clumping of the bacilli causes a flocculent precipitate, which can be seen with the naked eye.

  35. A white cloud or flocculent precipitate (which usually appears during the boiling, but if the quantity be very small only after addition of the acid) denotes the presence of albumin.

  36. Neither precipitation of phosphates as a light flocculent sediment nor simple decolorization of the reagent should be mistaken for a positive reaction.

  37. The night was overcast, and through the flocculent grey of the heaped clouds there filtered a faint half-light of dawn.

  38. A deposit of this nature is forming in southern Florida, both as a flocculent calcareous mud and as crystals of lime carbonate upon a limestone surface.

  39. Large, persistent bubbles should form on the surface of the liquid and the casein be present as an extremely fine flocculent precipitate which remains suspended for a considerable time.

  40. Any flocculent matter indicates either disease in the cow or that the milk is old and bacteria have multiplied in it and altered its composition.

  41. The solution, after standing for about an hour, is poured in a fine stream into a large volume of water, by which the "nitro" body is precipitated as a white flocculent mass.

  42. Footnote A: These substances often cause trouble in nitrating, white flocculent matter being formed during the process of washing.

  43. If exception is to be taken to any particular anemone, I think the grand plumosa must suffer by it; for this noble creature gives off a flocculent exudation, which seems injurious to other kinds.

  44. Add carbonate of soda in excess to a solution of sulphate of copper, and warm the mixture till the pale-blue, flocculent precipitate becomes sandy and assumes a green tint.

  45. The brown colour of decoction or infusion of roasted coffee becomes greenish when treated with a per-salt of iron; and a brownish-green, flocculent precipitate is formed.

  46. Hence it produces no change when mingled with distilled or perfectly pure water; but when added to water containing earthy salts, a white flocculent matter becomes separated, which speedily collects on the surface of the fluid.

  47. A turbidness will instantly ensue, and a flocculent matter collect on the surface of the fluid, if the mixture be left undisturbed.

  48. The quantity of flocculent matter will be in the ratio of the quantity of earthy salts contained in the water.

  49. Along with them were pupae and larvae, not gathered together, but dispersed, apparently irregularly, throughout the flocculent mass.

  50. When flying, it is the only portion of the insect seen; and birds trying to capture it on the wing are likely to get only a mouthful of the flocculent wax.

  51. This flocculent mass is so loosely connected with the body that it is difficult to catch the insect without breaking the greater part of it off.

  52. The stem is solid above and hollow below, fibrous, pale, its surface more or less covered with flocculent down, and densely covered with white down at the base.

  53. The pileus is some shade of yellow, convex, inflexed, smooth, flocculent or scaly.

  54. With this reagent strychnia gives a pale, other alkaloids a bright yellow flocculent precipitate, in very dilute solutions.


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    Other words:
    bristly; bushy; ciliate; flaky; fleecy; flocculent; furry; fuzzy; hairy; hirsute; matted; pilose; pubescent; scabby; scabrous; scaly; scurfy; shaggy; unshorn; woolly