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Example sentences for "gentle heat"

  • The extrication of the gas is facilitated by the application of a gentle heat.

  • Put any quantity of brandy, rum, or malt spirit diluted with about one-fourth its bulk of water, into a retort fitted to a capacious receiver, and distil with a gentle heat.

  • Application of gentle heat or appropriate chemicals will serve to differentiate them.

  • The urine is evaporated by gentle heat to about half its volume, boiled for a few minutes with about one-fifth its volume of strong hydrochloric acid, and shaken out with ether.

  • Centrifugalize thoroughly, after dissolving any sediment of urates or phosphates by gentle heat or acetic acid.

  • Bulk-percentage to be read from graduation on the side of the tube.

  • Bulk-percentage to be read on the side of the tube.

  • Sometimes several cover-glasses must be examined to find a single bacillus.

  • In this state, by the application of a gentle heat, it gives out nitrous gas; and we term it, in this degree of oxygenation, nitrous acid.

  • When these two precipitations are finished, distill off about seven-eighths of the acid by a gentle heat, and what comes over is in the most perfect degree of purity.

  • When the disengagement of the gas slackens, a gentle heat is applied to the retort, and gradually increased till nothing more passes over.

  • For this purpose we chiefly employ the nitric acid, which has a very slight hold of oxygen, and quits it readily to a great number of bodies by the assistance of a gentle heat.

  • The oil coloured before scenting, by steeping in it one drachm of alkanet root, with a gentle heat, until the desired tint is produced.

  • Digestion resembles maceration, except that the process is assisted by a gentle heat.

  • Take two drachms of scraped white soap, half a drachm of extract of henbane, and dissolve them by a gentle heat in six ounces of olive oil.

  • The oxalate of mercury will be precipitated, which is to be caught on a filter, washed, and dried in a gentle heat.

  • A gentle heat is applied to excite the action between them, which must be removed, the moment they begin to act.

  • By a suitable movement of the flask, the acid ferrous chloride is allowed to come in contact with the tissue, a gentle heat applied to the flask, and gases are evolved.

  • A little of the solution is now mixed with a very small quantity of starch paste, and evaporated to dryness at a gentle heat in a porcelain dish.

  • A drop of nicotine poured on dry chromic acid blazes up, and gives out an odour of tobacco camphor; if the ignition does not occur in the cold, it is produced by a gentle heat.

  • Dissolve it by a gentle heat, skim it till the surface is quite clear, and add an ounce of lemon peel cut very thin.

  • It is customary in France to pack grapes for the London market in saw dust, but it must be carefully dried with a gentle heat, or the turpentine and other odours of the wood will not fail to injure the fruit.

  • Tie it down with a bladder, prick a pin through it for the air to escape, set it to digest in a gentle heat, and shake up the contents.

  • Digest the whole for three days in a gentle heat, and then filtre it for use.

  • For early crops== which are eventually to come to maturity in the open ground, the first sowings may be made in the month of April, either in boxes in a gentle heat, or better still in a frame on a sunny border without artificial heat.

  • In the former case, put in the seeds one inch deep and four inches apart, and start them in gentle heat.

  • Seeds should be sown in February or March in gentle heat.

  • Dissolve half an ounce of mercury in three ounces of nitric acid, assisting the solution by a gentle heat.

  • Decant the clear liquid, wash the precipitate thoroughly, and dry it with a gentle heat.

  • Pour a little water over some pentiodide of phosphorus, previously put into a glass retort, apply a gentle heat, and collect the gas as before.

  • The process should be conducted by a gentle heat, and it is preferable not to add the sugar until the juice is somewhat concentrated, as by lengthened boiling the quality of the sugar is injured.

  • Propagated by seeds, sown in spring; also by cuttings in sandy soil, in gentle heat.

  • Cuttings should be placed in sand, covered by a hand-glass, in a gentle heat.

  • Propagated by seeds sown in gentle heat, or by division of the root in autumn or early spring.

  • Young cuttings root freely, in a gentle heat, at all times.

  • When the whole has been well mixed, by the aid of a gentle heat, sprinkle the insects with the liquor, and it will instantly kill them.

  • Beat an ounce of isinglass to shreds: dissolve it gradually in a pint of brandy, by means of gentle heat, and then strain the solution through a piece of fine muslin.

  • Melt together, with a gentle heat, one ounce white wax and two ounces spermaceti.

  • Then apply the Isinglass, after it has been rendered liquid by a gentle heat, to the silk with a brush of fine hair (badger's is the best).

  • Melt the Gelatine in the water at a gentle heat, add to it the Glycerine, in which the Gum Dextrine has been thoroughly incorporated.

  • If these two substances be only rubbed together in a gentle heat, or even without any heat, they will contract an union, though but an incomplete one.

  • Phosphorus resembles sulphur in several of its properties: it is soluble in oils; it melts with a gentle heat; it is very combustible; it burns without producing soot; and its flame is vivid and bluish.

  • For this purpose therefore recourse must be had to fire: a gentle heat, not exceeding that of boiling water, will extract all the essential Oils of vegetables; and this is the most usual and most convenient way of procuring them.

  • Empyreumatic Oils, distilled and rectified several times by a gentle heat, acquire by every distillation a greater degree of tenuity, lightness, and limpidity.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    becoming smooth; been otherwise; being weary; different qualities; gentle birth; gentle blood; gentle breeze; gentle fire; gentle knight; gentle lady; gentle maiden; gentle reader; gentle sleep; gentleman born; gentleman friend; gentleman from; gentleman like; home with; knew nothing; magical ceremony; not very; precipitate retreat; silky hair; sudden attack; using them; warm room