Effect of moisture upon the strength and stiffness of wood.
Increased moisture content, due to greater humidity of the air, lowers the elastic limit of wood so that what was a safe load for the dry material may become unsafe.
Moisture determinations are made by the disk method.
Relation of the moisturecontent to the various strength values of spruce.
This greater heat is often accompanied by low humidity, and conditions are favorable for the rapid removal of moisture from the exposed portions of wood.
In all cases the moisture is very carefully determined and stated with the results in the tables.
Moisture Determinations Moisture determinations will be made on all specimens tested except those to be photographed or kept for exhibit.
The process of drying is from the outside inward, and if the loss of moisture at the surface is met by a steady capillary current of water from the inside, the shrinkage, so far as the degree of moisture affected it, would be uniform.
After the test a moisture section is cut and weighed.
The loss in weight expressed in per cent of the dry weight indicates the moisture content of the specimen from which the specimen was cut.
Relation of the moisture content to the various strength values of spruce 25.
Calcium carbide may be preserved for any length of time if protected from the air, but the ordinary moisture in the atmosphere gradually affects it until nothing remains but slaked lime.
Unless excessively overloaded, transformers will last for years without giving a moment's trouble, if they are not exposed to moisture or are not injured mechanically.
This metal is valuable for two reasons: it is not affected by the air or moisture or any ordinary acid or salt, and in addition to this property it melts only at the highest temperatures.
Zinc is practically unaffected by air or moisture through becoming covered with one of its own compounds which immediately resists further action.
It always possesses a penetrating odor, which is not due to the carbide itself but to the fact that it is being constantly affected by moisture and producing small quantities of acetylene gas.
Caya, rather large, found in the broken ground and among the rocks, from the body of which a poison so active is emitted, that men and mules have died in an hour or two after the venomous moisture had fallen on them.
These, after a few days, on the application of the slightest moisture attended by warmth, hatch into little grubs.
If they begin a story, and for want of moisture are unable to finish it, they pull down again all the crumbling apartments that are not covered in[824].
All the moisture that has been trickling down here during the past week has been from the thawing out of the frozen hillsides, but those slopes are almost dust dry now.
There was a glint ofmoisture on the lean hands that had toiled for so many years in the Burnit service, and as Bobby passed he placed his hand on old Johnson's bowed head for just an instant, then went out, leaving Johnson alone.
The rain had now entirely ceased; the thunder muttered from afar, and the lightning seemed only to lick the moisture from the trees.
They will frequently throw a handkerchief on the ground and lay their infants to sleep upon it, satisfied that neither moisture nor creeping thing will harm the child, for Dali is wonderfully free from noxious reptiles.
In June, all moisture seems to have departed from the atmosphere, and towards the end of the month, the heat is fearful, and the sky becomes a changeless expanse of glorious deep blue.
In such of these cultivated portions of the coast as also enjoy the moisture brought by the smaller streams, as they discharge themselves into the sea, the harvests and crops are still more luxuriant.
Far too intense was the cold to allow anyone to remain at the opening, and the moisture on the walls soon resolved itself into icicles.
The statue was made of precious stones, wood, and all sorts of metal together; its color was at first blue, but the steams ormoisture of the place had turned it black.
His body and all the rich stuffs it was wrapped in, were found quite entire, and exhaling a sweet smell one hundred and twenty years after his death, notwithstanding the excessive moisture of the vault.
While yet something of the moisture sticks on your lips, touch them with your hand, and by applying it then to your eyes, forehead, and other senses, sanctify them.
Eat, uncle," she said, more softly than she had yet spoken, for his words about her care of him had brought a moisture to her eyes.
Standing now with the child in his arms and his wife looking at him with a shining moisture of the eyes, Jim laughed outright.
For ascertaining the dryness or moisture of air, the readiest, and surest method is the comparison of two thermometers; one dry, the other just moistened, and kept so.
He was very pale, and his hair was damp with the moisture on his forehead.
The level ground on which he stood was barely four feet square; behind him sloped the most precipitous side of the crag, devoid of tree or bush, and slippery from the constant moisture that formed a deep black pool at its base.
A strange moisture had risen to the eyes of the Queen as she first beheld Marie.
This range acts as a "breakwater" to the clouds, arresting and condensing the moisture which is carried northwards by the south winds.
The skin is worked over with this instrument to free it from a portion of its moisture and is now ready to receive the tanning material which consists of a mixture of putrefying brain, liver, and fat.
As the skin from which they are made is the same as that used for water-tight boots, it is obvious that no moisture can touch the skin of the hand.
If it is very cold it does not permit the moisture from the feet to pass out as it freezes, rendering the boot stiff and slippery on the snowshoe, while the buckskin is porous and readily allows the moisture to escape.
It is said that the bark does not become wet from the moisture induced by the severe exertion and thus burn the head.
Coats are deemed great prizes, especially in the wet seasons when the moisture would certainly ruin their own clothing by causing the hair to fall off or totally destroy the shape of the tanned skin garments.
The leather having become thoroughly impregnated with the oil makes the best for wear, often resisting moisture for three or four days of continuous wet.
When a pair of boots has been worn for some time, during a few hours in warm weather they absorb moisture and become nearly half an inch thick on the soles.
This moisture deposited on the bushes and trees forms a most beautiful sight.
The earth roofs of this country will only absorb a certain amount of moisture and when the limit is reached, a deluge of very dirty water is the result.
Unfortunately most of them perished through the penetration of moisture into the box.
In the eyes of the caliph of caliphs the moisture of human compassion sparkled.
And now the merchant himself arose from his place, went out of the cavern, and could scarce believe his eyes when he saw before him the savage, rocky region, where not a drop of moisture could be seen, to say nothing of the sea!
Wythie looked up, smiling to show that the moisture on those lashes meant nothing, and offered Basil one more yellow page.
Rob put out her hand with a responsive moisture in her own bright eyes.
She was kind, she was gentle, there was moisture in her eyes, and a yearning something in her face and manner which she could not wholly hide--but she kept her distance.
The thing was so fine and generous and knightly that it brought the moisture to his eyes.
