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Example sentences for "minute quantity"

  • The germ-plasm, on the other hand, can only be present in minute quantity at first, but it must undergo considerable increase during the growth of the cell.

  • It follows from these several facts that a solution of curare induces a very moderate degree of inflection, and this may perhaps be due to the presence of a minute quantity of albumen.

  • They contain a minute quantity of extractive matter which is not present in other apples.

  • Sometimes a little nitric acid is added to the solution of the coloured crystals, for the purpose of bleaching them, but in this way a minute quantity of oxalic acid is formed.

  • That a minute quantity of iron is dissolved by the carbonic acid contained in the water, ferrous bicarbonate being formed.

  • The rose-colour, which sometimes supervenes, is due to a minute quantity of manganese.

  • It consists of sulphur, 13; lead, 85; with a little iron, and sometimes a minute quantity of silver.

  • The yellow dust of hops contains, moreover, traces of a fatty matter, gum, a small quantity of an azotised substance, and several saline combinations in minute quantity.

  • For this purpose, a minute quantity of the substance is placed upon the heart of a frog: in presence of the alkaloid, the pulsations are immediately retarded, or even arrested.

  • If it is evaporated, a residue containing the colchicine, digitaline and traces of atropine (mixed possibly with a minute quantity of picrotoxine, which is here left out of consideration) is obtained.

  • When, however, only a minute quantity of mercury is present, and this has been absorbed, its detection is more difficult.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being engaged; edged sword; high level; international agreements; laying them; line stanza; lovely maid; meat offering; minute account; minute after; minute afterwards; minute before; minute later; minute more; minute quantity; minutes after; minutes before; minutes longer; minutes north; often seen; part chorus; perfectly natural; retain their; thick wood; thus expresses; vast concourse