To provide peptone beef-broth, ten grains of peptone and five grains of common salt are added to every litre of acid beef-broth.
The flasks have a capacity for one litre of water.
Ten to fifteen grams are added to every litre of peptone-broth.
I introduce 500 grammes of yellow or white wax into 1 litre of spirits of wine, of the strength usually sold, in a glass retort.
I add only, if I have any dissolved, 1 or 2 grammes of camphorated spirits to 1 litre of the solution of gallic acid.
Similarly one gramme-molecule of a solute, whatever its nature, when dissolved in a litre of water, has the same pressure, viz.
A weight x of the substance is dissolved in a litre of water, and the lowering of the freezing point is observed.
One gramme-molecule of the solute introduced into one litre of the solution lowers its temperature of congelation by 1.
The most usual method is to give the concentration as the weight of solute dissolved in 100 grammes or in one litre of the solvent.
The weight of solute dissolved in a litre of the solvent.
If, for instance, we take a gramme-molecule of an electrolyte such as chloride of sodium, and dissolve it in a litre of water, we find that the lowering of the freezing point is nearly double the theoretical value of 1.
Following such a method, it has been found that the weight of 1 litre of oxygen vapour at its boiling point of 90.
When the charcoal containing this mixture was transferred to a vacuum vessel and allowed to warm up slowly, the successive litres of gas when collected and analyzed separately showed the following composition:-- 1st litre 18.
According to the ordinary gaseous laws, the litre ought to weigh 4.
In a similar way the weight of a litre of nitrogen vapour at the boiling point of oxygen was found to be 3.
Employing the latest data for the weight of 1 litre of dry hydrogen and of dry normal air containing 0.
Every generator must bear a plate giving the name of the maker, or the seller, and the maximum number of l0-litre lights it is intended to supply.
The weight of a litre of water at 4° in a vacuum is called a kilogram.
The weight of one litre of oxygen gas at 0° and 760 mm.
It proved to be an extremely active producer of lactic acid, supplying 25 grammes per litre of milk.
Every litre of alcohol pays two {25} francs duty on coming into the colony, and I pay for the absolute alcohol which I use for medical purposes the same duty as is paid on the ordinary liquor for drinking.
The financial position of the African colonies is well known to be anything but brilliant, and the duty on spirits has a second advantage, that it can be increased every year without diminishing by a litre the quantity consumed.
We transferred the liquid so prepared to the 6 litre flask arranged over the mercury.
We placed a trace of yeast in one litre of saccharine wort; it propagated, and all the sugar was decomposed.
There the others joined in: "Allons donc pour un litre--let's drink a litre in the canteen.
The litre--a litre of wine--took the place of the current coinage.
With it the grey-white French military bread was served, and every other day a quarter of a litre of heavy red wine.
On camping next day every legionnaire had to give up half a litre of water to the mess of his company for cooking purposes.
They know Algeria like the palm of their own hand and gladly sell their priceless wisdom for a litre of canteen wine.
This takes the first place, occurring most frequently and being the most characteristic and easily indulged, in a country where the price of a litre of heavy wine varies between ten and twenty centimes.
Company orders warned us to save up half a litre for the morrow's "soupe.
The latter is prepared by adding the white of an egg to 1/4 litre of water and beating to a froth.
Aluminium is laid on a gelatine solution: one tablet of gelatine to 1/4 litre of water.
Glair for brushing over an impression consists of one part white of egg and one part vinegar; to every 1/2 litre 1 g.
A tablet of gelatine is soaked in 1/4 litre of water overnight and next morning is dissolved in the bath.
About 10 grammes of tragacanth to 1/4 litre water are soaked in a vessel, and after swelling it is well stirred.
The same might be followed in the case of dyes which are constantly in use, in this case 5 grammes per litre will be found strong enough.
Best of all, from the working man's point of view, was the low price of bread and wine; the latter could be had at four sous the litre in the wine-shops.
Breakfast may cost sixpence a day, and for this there is to be ¾ litre of milk, 4 small white rolls, ½ lb.
It is kept on tap even in the small wayside inns, where you get half a litre for two or three pence when you are out for a walk and are thirsty.
One tablespoonful of maya is sufficient to ferment one litre of milk.
According to a Sophia chemist, the "Maya" is employed in the following manner: For a litre of milk it is necessary to take about 10 gr.
In the account of these investigations the following table is given, showing the amount of lactic acid produced by different lactic acid bacilli in one litre of milk, in terms of lactic acid--the culture being kept at 37 deg.
One litre of milk is then poured into a flask, and a full tablespoonful of the prepared koerner added to it.
Strain the mixture through sterile butter muslin or a perforated porcelain funnel, then filter the liquid through Swedish filter paper into a sterile "normal" litre flask, and when cold make up to 1000 c.
Make the weight of the medium mass to the calculated figure for one litre (1060 grammes) by the addition of distilled water.
Wash the agar emulsion into a tared 2-litre flask with 400 c.
Weigh the potato gratings, place them in a 2-litre flask, and add distilled water in the proportion of 1 c.
Wash the peptone emulsion into a litre flask with 600 c.
Measure out into a half litre flask Distilled water 210 c.
Wash the emulsion into a "tared" 2-litre flask with 300 c.
Arrange a 5-litre tin can (with copper bottom, such as is used in the preparation of distilled water) by the side of the water bath, fill the can with boiling water and place a lighted Bunsen burner under it.
Weigh out 250 grammes crushed malt and place in a 2-litre flask.
This medium should be prepared in precisely the same manner as the Nutrose agar described on page 172 substituting meat extract for serum water, and increasing the percentage of agar added per litre to 3 per cent.
Adjust the weight to the calculated figure for one litre of medium (1110.
The mass is then well mixed with 1 litre of acetone for two minutes and again filtered and drained.
The original solution is made slightly alkaline by potash, and a standard solution containing 1·7 grammes of silver nitrate per litre (1 cub.
You reach for your tin cup, and he pours out a quarter-litre of fearful but hot liquid, somewhat resembling coffee.
The directions for use, translated into various languages, say--Dissolve 10 grammes subcarbonate of soda in half a litre of warm or cold rain water, and with this wash the grease from the hair.
Half a litre of urine was placed in a hoop dialyser, which was then floated on a considerable quantity of pure water.
After three or four days he adds one litre of isinglass or two of gelatin in the proportion of 1 kilo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "litre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
