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Example sentences for "moist heat"

  • They delight in a steady, moist heat; to be shaded in the middle of hot days, to prevent the sun from scorching the foliage; and never to be watered overhead.

  • Continue to shift young plants into larger-sized pots, according to their height and strength; to be kept growing by placing them in a brisk, moist heat.

  • Those lately planted out to be encouraged with a close, moist heat, to get them into free growth as quickly as possible.

  • They delight in a moist heat, and a partially-shaded situation.

  • Dry heat is not nearly so effective as moist heat as a sterilizing agent.

  • Moist heat may be applied either by boiling in water or by the use of steam at air pressure, or, for rapid work and on substances that would not be injured, by steam under pressure.

  • The failures following in the track of these methods were an indication of the need of some form of moist heat, viz.

  • But it is only in comparatively recent times that it has been fully established that moist heat is the only really efficient form of heat disinfection.

  • As we have seen, moist heat at the boiling point maintained for five minutes will kill all bacteria and their spores.

  • After having placed the part in absolute rest, moist heat applied to it frequently brings great relief.

  • Poultices are used to apply heat (moist heat), to soothe or to draw.

  • Dry or moist heat should be applied, according to the ease they give.

  • Moist heat--heat and moisture are conveyed to the food.

  • Moist heat will soften and finally dissolve connective tissue, making it easy to cut and chew; therefore tough cuts should be cooked in moist heat.

  • Moist heat is a much more efficacious germicide than dry heat, for it destroys the organisms at a much lower temperature.

  • Dry heat is not so efficient as moist heat.

  • Increased by cuttings taken from shoots that are about ripe; plant in a pot of sand, and plunge in a moist heat, under a hand-glass.

  • The leaves must be dressed off, and the cuttings planted in sand under a glass in moist heat.

  • By ripened cuttings, which will root in sand under a hand-glass, in a moist heat.

  • Increased by cuttings taken from ripened wood; place in sand, under a hand-glass, in a strong, moist heat.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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