As this agency gives us no sensations, we are obliged (if we try to conceive it) to use symbols idealized from our sensations—imponderable units forming a medium.
These Imponderable Agents are not properly calledImponderable Fluids.
The whiteness of the buildings, too, even where they were not illuminated, defined spaces never obscure; the city was never wholly lost, obliterated by the imponderable blackness of the north.
Now it was Juana that was legendary, and Florida resembled the significant hooked finger of an imponderable power.
Comets seem to be almost imponderable when estimated by such robust masses as those of the earth, or any of the other great planets.
How imponderableand impalpable must be the effluvium which enables the dog to track his master for miles!
The world, beings, and things, all that we see, is formed of invisible and imponderable atoms.
The general belief regarding the ether has been, ever since it was invented, that it is a substance of some kind (imponderable and impalpable?
Laplace procured this condition by piling up imponderable heat in his nebula, but he might have got it otherwise.
Franklin supposed that electricity was a subtle, imponderable fluid, of which all bodies contained a certain normal quantity.
There was a second's imponderable stillness, and then the entire night appeared to crash down upon his head.
The warm sun lingered for a day or so more, and then was obliterated by an imponderable bank of fog that rolled in through the Narrows, over Cottar's Neck, and changed even the small confines of the town into a vast labyrinth.
The imponderable fluid insinuates itself through the garments, leaving no trace of its passage, and may cause grave disorders in the body of a man without any exterior mark to reveal it to the most perspicacious observer.
In increasing our observations, and in comparing those which are analogous, we may hope, if not to arrive at an immediate conclusion, at least to help in the work of discovering what laws govern this subtle and imponderable fluid.
In the early days of the science it was natural to ascribe the manifestations of heat to the action of a subtleimponderable fluid called "caloric," with the power of penetrating, expanding and dissolving bodies, or dissipating them in vapour.
It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
Defn: Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance.
He hadn't realized the extent to which he had been surrounded and confined, the imponderable mass of what he had not only been indifferent to but actually disliked.
His effort to draw closer to them was proving a failure; what could he give them safer than their attachment to the imponderable body of public opinion and approval?
In both theories a wave motion is admitted, and every fact renders it probable that this mode of progression applies not only to light, but to the so-called imponderable forces in general.
The position which I seek to establish in this essay is, that the various imponderable agencies, or the affections of matter which constitute the main objects of experimental physics, viz.
At present it is only necessary to state thus generally the views we entertain of the conditions of matter in connection with the imponderable forces and mechanical powers.
On a new imponderable substance, and on a class of chemical rays analogous to the rays of dark heat: by Professor Draper; Phil.
Once they bump against that 'imponderable quantity,' the mice will trouble you no more.
Think what the result would have been had that 'imponderable quantity' hit you fair and square.
What causes them to produce ponderable molecules and to become heavy bodies while they are essentiallyimponderable and devoid of attraction?
The conception of imponderable phlogiston tallies well with the habit and methods of the last century, when recourse was often had to imponderable fluids for explaining a large number of phenomena.
Heat, light, magnetism, and electricity were explained as being peculiar imponderable fluids.
The whole scheme of these important sciences rests on the hypothesis of "electric fluidity," or of imponderable matter of which the existence is nothing less than proved.
The constituents of oxygen are--nitrogen, a highly rare imponderable element and medium of space.
The imponderable element being highly evanescent, is never found alone, and is always connected with nitrogen; hence simple nitrogen is obtainable only from bodies, or by deoxygenating atmospheric air.
Naturally, correlative elements will be found together, as are nitrogen and the imponderable element; also the magnetic fluids common to iron.
Of the air of an inspiration, the oxygenating imponderable element only can permeate the pulmonary tissue.
Water loses its fluidity and is made solid or congealed, upon losing the imponderableoxygenating element.
Solids, as polished metals and glass, when they experience no change of weight, lose to the fire imponderable elementary matter only.
The phases of this evolution consist in a periodic change of consistency, of which the first outcome is the primary division into mass and ether--the ergonomy of ponderable and imponderable matter.
The study of ether, or imponderable matter, pertains principally to physics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imponderable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
