Explosives of the first class are generally known as the high explosives, and consist for the most part of nitro compounds, or mixtures of nitro compounds with other substances.
The number of compounds and mixtures included under this definition is very large, and they are of very different chemical composition.
These mixtures were made in such proportions that the mutual oxidation or de-oxidation should be theoretically complete.
Following up the idea that an explosion is a sudden combustion, he submitted a variety of mixtures of oxidising and combustible agents to the violent shock of a detonator of fulminate.
Right subjection is that from which is emitted the emanation which attracts and which in mixtures often lies hidden on account of their lack of form, by reason of which they are often different in act from what they are in potency.
Let A B be a piece of magnetick ore; between which and the uniform globe of the earth lie various soils or mixtures which separate the ore to a certain extent from the globe of the true earth.
It was long ago discovered that certain mixtures of clay and sand, duly mingled and burned, became as hard as stone.
Thus impeded, the untiring inventor turned to mixtureshaving zirconium as a basis; these not only gave a steady beam, but extended to hundreds of hours the life of a mantle.
The boiling point of its aqueous mixtures are raised in proportion to the quantity of water present.
Thus, by repeated distillations alcohol may be obtained from its mixtures with water in an almost anhydrous state.
The following table represents the contraction undergone by different mixturesof absolute alcohol and water.
The curves of the maximum tensions of vapors formed by all mixtures of alcohol and water are represented by the same general formula, one factor only of which is a function of the richness of the alcoholic solution.
Advance in the Price of Glycerine Analysis of Oils or Mixtures of Oils Used for Lubricating Purposes Nitrate of Amyl III.
They are the true primaries, whose mixturesproduce all other hues.
The foregoing mixtures of dark reds and light yellows are typical of the union of light and dark values of any neighboring hues, such as yellow and green, green and blue, blue and purple, or purple and red.
As for the experimental groupings of black and white units, the general believed that such mixtures were appropriate for combat units but not for the separate small units common to the Army Service Forces.
The temperature may be measured by means of a pyrometer, but for the reason just stated it is more convenient and in some respects more accurate to use standard mixtures known as Seger Cones (fig.
On the Continent, and to a much smaller extent in Great Britain, refractory articles are made from mixtures of grog or burned fireclay with just sufficient raw clay to form a mass of the required strength.
There is, in fact, at the present time, no generally accepted definition of clay which distinguishes it from mixtures of clay and sand or other fine mineral particles.
The first embraces jointing effected with soldering mixtures into which copper, brass, or silver largely enter, the second those in which lead and tin are the only, or the principal, constituents.
Such powders are mixtures which, under the influence of either water or heat, evolve carbon dioxide.
Fats can be artificially synthetized by heating mixtures of glycerol and fatty acids, under considerable pressure, for some time at temperatures of 200 deg.
They are usually present in the plant oil in mixtures with each other or with a terpene.
First, cork-like substances have been artificially produced by passing a stream of carbon dioxide through mixtures of formaldehyde with various tannic acids.
Most natural fats aremixtures of several different triglycerides in each of which the three (OH) groups of the glycerol has been replaced by the same organic acid radical, as in the example of stearin shown above.
It is now known, however, that chlorophyll contains neither choline nor phosphorus, the earlier observations being due to mixtures of various other materials with the true chlorophyll in the extracts which were examined.
There seems to have been a mania for mixtures of tar and resins, their spirits and oils; my experience fails to show me any advantage for them on an iron bottom.
Other varieties of heterogeneous colloidal mixtures are tabulated by Wo.
Now, some chloride, say a little of a concentrated solution of potassium chloride, which reacts perfectly neutral, is added to one of the mixtures of the hydroxide and chloride.
Such mixtureshave to be prepared by the painter, and the work becomes a skilled operation.
In executing the script monogram the workman will agree with us that carmine and vermilion mixtures produce the finest color effects.
These mixtures diminish the intellect and decrease the vitality of the offspring, who are invariably inferior to the pure bloods, even if the pure blood is Indian or negro.
Although mixtures like this are uncommon, they nevertheless exist, but it is of great commonness for a person to have the blood of three of these races.
We multiply smells which may seem strange: we imitate smells, making all smells to breathe out of other mixtures than those that give them.
We have also means to make divers plants rise by mixtures of earths without seeds, and likewise to make divers new plants, differing from the vulgar, and to make one tree or plant turn into another.
The fat present in the cells of adipose tissue, composed mainly of varyingmixtures of tripalmitin, tristearin, and triolein.
The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc.
These mixtures are not smooth like ice cream, but are frozen in crystals and to be exactly correct, should look like moss when cut.
It is not well to freeze the mixturestoo rapidly; they are apt to be coarse, not smooth, and if they are churned before the mixture is icy cold they will be greasy or "buttery.
The very extensive round of experiments to which I have submitted mixtures of this nature, clearly establishes all the conclusions I have formed on these points.
I still would welcome and fraternize with them, as highly skilled workers in elaborate mixtures of metals suitable for ornamental gun-barrels.
Some other mixtures less expensive might be produced (lead and copper in certain proportions are very ductile), and at the same time sufficiently strong to resist all tendency to squash; as the softer metals would inevitably do.
There are six qualities or varieties of mixtures of iron for barrels of best quality.
This I think any one will admit, after considering the two following facts; which apply equally to all varieties and mixtures of wrought iron.
Of all the mixtures for killing them, corrosive sublimate and alcohol is the surest.
The fewer mixtures there are in cooking, the more healthful is the food likely to be.
Where intermediate grades are wanted, mixtures of the real and synthetical essences are often blended, and these frequently imitate the natural product so closely as to be only distinguishable by a trained sense of smell and taste.
In the case of mixtures the specific sera only reacted with extracts of the flesh of the two animals in question.
Van der Waals has established a characteristic equation of the mixtures which is founded on mechanical considerations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mixtures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
