I be “jiggered” if I drink more than four litres a day!
It is fixed on the tripod, and fifteen litresof air are drawn through, and the tube is properly plugged and incubated at room temperature.
Thus we have all the organisms contained in two litresof the water reduced into 10 cc.
They are most numerous generally in the first part of the tube, and might be roughly estimated as follows: 15 litres of air, 6 colonies.
By means of a small sterilised cannula, five, or eight, or even ten litres of blood are drawn from the jugular vein of the horse into sterilised flasks or jars.
The subject was then allowed to drink two litres of beer in the course of a day.
Forty to eighty grams of alcohol, the amounts used in producing these astounding results, is no more than the quantity contained in one to two litres of beer or in a half-bottle to a bottle of ordinary wine.
The brewers are, however, allowed to sell beer, provided they do not give more than twenty-five litres to one person.
There is a strict law against importing spirits at all into Finland, while if more than ten litres are sent from one place to another in the country they are "subject to control.
The mixture is left for some hours in contact, then diluted with 4 litres of distilled water, and afterwards saturated with pure barium carbonate.
One gram of this compound imparts the sweet taste of the root to two litres of water.
One kilo of this substance yields 210 litres of gas.
All the numbers in small characters, printed under each real strength, indicate the volume which 1000 litres of a spirituous liquor would have, when measured at the temperature at which its apparent strength is taken.
After this last charge, they draw off about 40 litres of vinegar, and then recommence the successive additions.
See here: two taps fill a tank at the rate of twenty litres a minute, and a third tap empties it at the rate of fifteen hundredlitres an hour.
Ten litres of air were sufficient to cause a distinct turbidity, while 20 to 30 gave a precipitate.
In the first experiment about 25 litres of air were passed through the apparatus, the conditions being carefully noted.
This consisted of a flask of from three to four litres capacity, provided with a doubly perforated cork stopper.
The rate of the current was so regulated that during the time of the experiment, which varied in different cases from three to eight hours, three litres of carbon monoxide were used.
If we completely fill a flask of a few litres capacity (about a gallon) (Fig.
The three litres of yeast- water in the flask, supposing it to have been saturated, contains less than 16.
Let us now return to the first experiment described in the paragraph on page 292 in which a flask of three litres capacity was filled with fermentable liquid, which, when caused to ferment, yielded 2.
Let us once more take one of our double-necked flasks, which we will suppose is capable of containing three or four litres (six to eight pints).
He found that 1 atom-gramme of colloidal platinum gives a sensible catalytic effect when diluted with 70 million litres of water.
The following results were obtained from a comparison of solutions containing 1 gramme-molecule of the salt in 64 litres of water.
R for all gases, volume being measured in litres and pressure in atmospheres.
Suddenly a dreadful shock was felt, and the projectile, under the force of six billions of litres of gas, developed by the combustion of the pyroxyle, mounted into space.
The present supply is about a hundred and twenty-four litres of eau de source and ninety-six of eau de riviere daily for each inhabitant, but in summer this amount may become greatly diminished.
Excepting the alcohol, results are expressed in grammes per 100 litresof absolute alcohol.
Some of the vats hold tens of thousands of litres of wine.
At the end of the year I shall be in possession of five litres of corn over the one hundred that I have just lent.
Three litres of latex are necessary in order to obtain one litre of rubber.
The actual winning of the Deutsch prize had cost only a few litres of petroleum!
At one o'clock in the morning, the Battalion fell in, and each man got his two litres of water and strict orders to keep one quarter of it for to-morrow's cooking purposes.
The patient was kept alive by repeated injections of ether and artificial serum (1¼ litres in three doses).
Whenever vermiwash is needed, water should be sprinkled with a shower or, gradually poured on top of it (5 litres of water for a 150 litres drum).
Well, what you have to do is to take fourteen litres and a half from that tank and pitch them in the gutter!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "litres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
