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Example sentences for "given weight"

  • The quantity of real alkali in potash may be known by the proportion of acid required to saturate a given weight of it.

  • It will be easy to deduce the quantity of carbon, in a given weight of coal, from the quantity of nitrate of potassa it is capable of decomposing.

  • When a given weight of water freezes, does it absorb or evolve heat?

  • The amount of oxygen obtained from a given weight of potassium chlorate is exactly the same whether the manganese dioxide is present or not.

  • In other words, for a given weight of a gas the product of the numbers representing its volume and the pressure to which it is subjected is a constant.

  • If, however, we deal with a particular animal placed under certain conditions, it is then possible to ascertain the amount of fat which a given weight of non-plastic food will produce.

  • If this be so, the quantity of heat in a given weight of steam must be nearly the same, whether the steam is high or low pressure?

  • The actual power, on the contrary, is a mechanical force or dynamical effort capable of raising a given weight through a given distance in a given time, and of which the amount is ascertainable by scientific investigation.

  • Regnault has shown that the total amount of heat, existing in a given weight of steam, increases slightly with the pressure, so that the sum of the latent and sensible heats do not form a constant quantity.

  • Let us suppose a given weight of water at the temperature of 32 deg.

  • The proper test of this, as of all other acids, is, the quantity of alkaline matter which a given weight or measure of it will saturate.

  • It is founded on the principle, that the quantity of real alkali present in any sample, is proportional to the quantity of acid which a given weight of it can neutralize.

  • The relative volume of steam is the ratio of the volume of a given weight to the volume of the same weight of water at 39.

  • The temperature is found as follows: A given weight of some substance such as iron, nickel or fire brick, is heated to the unknown temperature and then plunged into water and the rise in temperature noted.

  • STEAM When a given weight of a perfect gas is compressed or expanded at a constant temperature, the product of the pressure and volume is a constant.

  • The faster any object can be made to move through the air, the less will be the supporting surface required to sustain a given weight.

  • The horsepower required varied as the velocity, so the factor governing the maximum velocity of flight was the horsepower that could be developed on a given weight.

  • Consequently the more difficult it becomes to keep in suspension a given weight.

  • S corresponding to a given weight of BaSO{4} is found by multiplying the weight of BaSO{4} by this factor.

  • The heat generated in the battery under these circumstances by the combustion of a given weight of zinc falls short of what is produced when there is no decomposition.

  • Add together the internal and external heat produced by the combustion of a given weight of zinc, and you have an absolutely constant total.

  • The metal zinc may be burnt in oxygen, a perfectly definite amount of heat being produced by the combustion of a given weight of the metal.

  • Finding, with a given sized valve and a given weight, how to mark off the lever and where the notches must be cut for given pressures.

  • The deeper the cut the less power required to cut off a given weight of metal.

  • The quicker the feed the less power required to cut off a given weight of metal.

  • The harder the metal, the more power required to cut off a given weight of metal.

  • This consists in pulverising the ore by any convenient method, and expertly washing a given weight of it (say 1000 gr.

  • It contains more iron than a given weight of the sulphate of the same base.

  • By the elimination of all cylinder condensation present in saturated steam locomotives and the increase in volume of a given weight of steam.

  • For each 100 degrees of superheat added to saturated steam, at temperatures ordinarily used in locomotive practice, the volume of a given weight is increased roughly from sixteen to seventeen per cent.

  • Further, superheating increases the volume of a given weight of steam, thereby reducing the consumption of steam required to develop a certain power and consequently increases the capacity.

  • He then dried the plants, and analyzed what had been the produce of a given weight of seed, and he found that the earthy matter in each was greater than it had been in the seeds from which they sprung.

  • He measured the volume of hydrogen gas, which he obtained by dissolving a given weight of each, and noted the quantity and the nature of the undissolved residue.

  • The object of the Essay on Metallic Precipitates is to determine the quantity of phlogiston which each metal contains, deduced from the quantity of one metal necessary to precipitate a given weight of another.

  • Bergman had made a set of experiments to determine the proportional quantities of phlogiston contained in the different metals, by the relative quantity of each necessary to precipitate a given weight of another from its acid solution.


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