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Example sentences for "impalpable powder"

  • Take alum, reduced to an impalpable powder, two drams; nitreous spirits of ether, seven drams.

  • After its accession, the best treatment is to freely dust the affected portion of the lips with violet powder, finely powdered starch, prepared chalk, or French chalk or talc reduced to an impalpable powder by scraping or grating it.

  • The addition of a very small quantity of blue smalts, reduced to an impalpable powder, is commonly made to the sugar, to increase its whiteness.

  • Before adding the tartar emetic to the lard it should be reduced to the state of an impalpable powder.

  • AZURE, the fine blue pigment, commonly called smalt, is a glass coloured with oxide of cobalt, and ground to an impalpable powder.

  • The calomel thus obtained is a superior article, in an impalpable powder, propitious to its medical efficacy.

  • If the supernatant liquid be now carefully decanted, or run off, with a syphon, it will contain an impalpable powder, which on repose will collect at the bottom, and may be taken out to dry.

  • It ought to be in the state of impalpable powder.

  • Rosin, reduced to an impalpable powder, and thrown upon a flame, will produce the effect in a remarkable degree, and when blown through a tube, the effect is more striking.

  • Various substances are employed either in grain, laminæ, filings, or impalpable powder.

  • While these changes are being accomplished in the external form of the colony, both the Cyathozooids and the Ascidiozooids progress considerably in development.

  • Older embryo after the closure of the medullary canal.

  • These processes are clearly of the same nature as those which take place in Chordata generally in the formation of the central nervous system.

  • To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.

  • Defn: A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay.

  • Defn: The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc.

  • Defn: To make smooth in various senses: (a) To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste.

  • The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc.

  • A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    almond extract; best able; divers places; flowing water; generally speaking; half tablespoonful; higher sphere; home life; impalpable powder; jist like; less pubescent; paper called; plate printing; purple color; seven cases; small bunch; special importance; strong desire; sucking insects; this life; vena cava; yellow stockings