Defn: Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.
In the manufacture of the explosive known as dynamite, an infusorial earth is used, which is filled with or made to absorb nitroglycerin.
This last difficulty is removed by first filling the cylinder or tank with some porous material, such as asbestos, wood charcoal, infusorial earth, etc.
Frankoline," a mixture of cuprous and ferric chlorides dissolved in strong hydrochloric acid absorbed in infusorial earth.
As a rule no decomposition of organized matter takes place, no death of plants or animals, without infusoriallife making its appearance, and disposing of no small portion of the spoil.
This was a good sign, for healthy vegetation is favorable to many of the most interesting forms of infusorial life.
Such researches might unfold some unexpected laws in the succession of infusorial life.
Infusorial parasites are particularly abundant in batrachians, the Bursariæ of frogs and toads being familiar to every helminthologist.
Nobel, however, had discovered that when nitroglycerin was absorbed in infusorial earth, it was rendered much less sensitive.
Cases of Diatoms in the Richmond "Infusorial earth;" highly magnified.
Another celebrated deposit is the so-called "Infusorial earth" of Richmond in Virginia, where there is a stratum in places thirty feet thick, composed almost entirely of the microscopic shells of Diatoms.
After the animal food has been reduced to the vegetable, and this again to the infusorial state, it can be taken up by the body.
Propagation is only possible through reduction taking place to the infusorial primary mass.
So must the human mind be a separation, a memberment of infusorial sensation.
This development from mucus is only applicable however to the generation of the perfect organisms, but not to the origin of the organic body, or the infusorial mass.
Indifferent blood is no longer blood, but chyle or infusorial primary mass.
But the materials are not so general in character, that like as from the infusorial mass, everything could become or derive its existence from everything else.
The former originate only from an organic mass that has been already formed; but the infusorial mass, as constituting the organic primary bodies, cannot have originated in the same way.
As the whole of nature has been a successive fixation of æther, so is the organic world a successive fixation of infusorial mucus-vesicles.
No organism has been consequently created of larger size than an infusorial point.
Professor Bastian is forced to go back of his infusorial forms and fungus-germs to a microscopical "pellicle," from which he admits they are "evolved.
These, while presenting the most varied and diverse forms of infusorial life, are nevertheless the most constant and abundant type.
It belongs to the same class of idle speculations as "spontaneous generation" in the infusorial world--a subject that will be considered as we advance in this work.
It will probably be admitted that the vegetation of the earth may appear in the way and manner indicated in the biblical genesis, the same as infusorial forms appear in super-heated and hermetically-sealed flasks.
No organism has consequently been created of larger size than an infusorial point; whatever is larger has not been created, but developed.
The human body has been formed by an extreme separation of the neuro-protoplasmic or mucous mass; so must the human mind be a separation, a memberment of infusorial sensation.
I mean that when a fever or a cancer lays hold of a human frame, it is nothing but the lodging inside the body of a bacterial and an infusorial life which fights against the healthy native life of the human organism.
Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.
An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc.
Parts of the lake seen from a short distance appeared of a reddish colour, and this perhaps was owing to some infusorial animalcula.
Nobel's dynamite consists of a mixture of 75 parts of nitroglycerin incorporated with 25 parts of an infusorial earth known as 'kieselghur,' found at Luneburgh, and consisting of the fossil shells of infusoria.
These are ciliated infusorial animalcules inhabiting ponds and water-tanks.
Indeed, in another infusion of hay in which my Heteromita lens occurred, there were innumerable such infusorial animalcules belonging to the well-known species Colpoda cucullus.
He said to himself, If these infusorial animalcules come from germs, their germs must exist either in the substance infused, or in the water with which the infusion is made, or in the superjacent air.
Three days' exposure to the dusty air suffices to render them muddy, fetid, and swarming with infusorial life.
The blood would putrefy and become fetid; and when you examine more closely what putrefaction means, you find the putrefying substance swarming with infusorial life, the germs of which have been derived from the atmospheric dust.
The air around him must have been free from the more obdurate infusorial germs, for otherwise the process he followed would, as was long afterwards proved by Wyman, have infallibly yielded life.
From May to August this process was continued without any development of infusorial life.
Frédol, tells us that "the infusorial animalcules are so small that a drop of water may contain them in many millions.
But many naturalists insist that the colouring matter proceeds from an infusorial animalcule, the green-coloured Vibrion.
The physiologist Müller has noted another peculiarity in infusorial life.
It would be sufficient to expose organic matter, animal or vegetable, to the action of the air and water at a suitable temperature, in order to see this matter organize itself, and form itself into living infusorial animals.
The Monads are other infusorial animalcules which make an early appearance in vegetable infusions.
He found that even the mercury itself was positively full of organic matters; that from being constantly exposed to the air, it had collected an immense number of these infusorial organisms from the air.
Of course, he expected he would get no infusorial animalcules at all in that infusion; but, to his great dismay and discomfiture, he found he almost always did get them.
And does not one in those years look upon precisely such a students' chamber as this as a spiritual students' endowment of genius, and every chaos as an infusorial one full of life?
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