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Example sentences for "minute portion"

  • It has been stated that these pills contain a minute portion of antimony.

  • If the water contain a minute portion of iron, a quantity of it equal to one of the three preceding portions, must be taken and mixed with a solution of benzoate of ammonia.

  • The bleacher cannot use with advantage waters impregnated with earthy salts; and a minute portion of iron imparts to the cloth a yellowish hue.

  • The water called in this metropolis New River Water, contains a minute portion of muriate of lime, carbonate of lime, and muriate of soda.

  • Genuine French brandy evinces an acid reaction with litmus paper, owing to a minute portion of vinegar; it contains besides some acetic ether, and, when long kept in oak casks, a little astringent matter.

  • This is a method of comparing the colour and other properties, of a minute portion of the metal, with those of small bars, the composition of which is known.

  • By this mode of analysis a minute portion of resin may remain in the gluten and in the washing water; the gluten retains also a small proportion of a fixed oil, and a volatile principle, which may be removed by alcohol.

  • The name given in this country to ardent spirits distilled from wine, and possessed of a peculiar taste and flavour, due to a minute portion of a peculiar volatile oil.

  • It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.

  • It is a peculiar shade of colour produced by mixing the light blue powder with white and a minute portion of crimson.

  • A light orange scarlet, as in fuchsia fulgens, is acquired by mixing a minute portion of scarlet powder with the bright crimson.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carved wood; comparatively shallow; informed them; intestinal canal; last agreed; marine fishes; masterly inactivity; minute after; minute before; minute later; minute more; minute particles; minute quantity; minutes after; minutes before; minutes east; minutes south; naval station; reign over; said the little knight; small area; steep hill; superior officer; true beauty; yearly income; young fella