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Example sentences for "given quantity"

  • Hence it is, in itself, a matter of indifference whether, for a given quantity of coin, a person gives one thaler, or ten.

  • A given quantity of money is capable of giving employment at most only to a certain number of men.

  • So far as a given quantity of consumption is concerned the result of the "roundabout" method is to diminish the quantity of capital which assists to produce it.

  • The quantity of coke obtainable from a given quantity of coal varies according to the nature of the coal employed.

  • Whereas, if the retorts are constantly kept red hot and in action, one half of the coal necessary to produce a given quantity of gas will then be saved.

  • Fahrenheit, is taken, is because the quantity of heat required to heat a given quantity of water 1 deg.

  • Suppose, for example, a given quantity of power to transmit, and that a length of cold-rolled and a length of hot-rolled iron be connected together to form the line.

  • How small a quantity is necessary to diminish a given quantity of air to a maximum, I have made no experiments to ascertain.

  • The effectual value of a given quantity of any commodity existing in the world at any moment is therefore a mathematical function of the capacity existing in the human race to enjoy it.

  • Should we obtain the same quantity of deals from Norway in exchange for a given quantity of tin as we now do?

  • You must at any rate allow that the quantity of corn produced with a given quantity of capital, supposing the same skill to be employed, must be greater there than here, or there is no meaning in fertility of soil.

  • There is a certain 75 initial capacity in the system for a given quantity of energy; this satisfied, progress ceases.

  • In a given quantity of radium a certain very small percentage of the total number of atoms present break up per second.

  • With a given quantity of Radium only a certain definitely limited amount of Radium C, or of emanation, or any other of the derived bodies, will be associated.

  • Thus, for example, we can observe what volume a given quantity of air occupies when successively subjected to different pressures.

  • This law states that, though a given quantity of work may be changed in the most manifold ways as to direction, force, etc.

  • It is under that point of view that I now publish The Art of Making Whiskey, so as to obtain a greater quantity of Spirit from a given quantity of Grain; the spirit thus obtained being purer and cheaper.

  • For the advantage of the distillers of whiskey, I will collect and offer them the means of obtaining from a given quantity of grain, the greatest possible quantity of spirit, purer and cheaper than by the usual methods.

  • In other words, a given quantity of current will decompose ‹equivalent› quantities of electrolytes and deposit ‹equivalent quantities› of metals.

  • As a matter of experience, the conductivity of a given quantity of an acid or other ionogen does tend toward a ‹limit›.

  • It is difficult to determine the number of pieces which may be passed through a given quantity of dung and water.

  • Its relative richness in the real ferroprussiate of iron may be estimated by the quantity of potash or soda which a given quantity of it requires to destroy its blue colour.

  • But the proportion is easily ascertained, for the pressure and the bulk of a given quantity of steam, as of air or any other elastic fluid, are always inversely proportional to one another.

  • The efficacy of a given quantity of steam is more than doubled by expanding the steam four times, while the efficacy of each stroke is made nearly one-half less.

  • The action of nitrate of soda is very remarkable, not only in this respect, but also because a given quantity of nitrogen in it appears to produce a greater effect than the same quantity in sulphate of ammonia or guano.

  • If we admit that at a certain moment there exists in the world a given quantity, it is perfectly clear that one purse cannot be filled without another being emptied.

  • Prohibant; which means, that all the French, or France, could obtain a given quantity of iron with less labour by buying it of the honest Flemings.

  • Nothing can be more clear and simple, more perfectly defined and bounded, or more visible to every eye; for justice is a given quantity, immutable and unchangeable, and which admits of neither increase or diminution.

  • By the diastatic activity is meant the number of times its (own) weight of maltose a given quantity of extract will produce when allowed to act upon acid-free soluble starch for one hour at a temperature of 40 degrees C.

  • This is based on the fact that you use a given quantity of flour to every quart of milk or water used, as should be the case, if you expect uniform results.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    eighteen hundred and forty; few days before his; given above; given area; given below; given effect; given from; given here; given internally; given number; given only; given place; given quantity; given state; given substance; given temperature; given thing; given three; given twice; given volume; given weight; said the old gentleman; seventy pounds; since leaving; sincere desire; single gentleman