The Golden Girl pressed upon its side; it slipped softly back; a torrent of opalescence gushed out of the opening--and as one in a dream I entered.
It slipped aside and once more the opalescence gushed out, flooding all about us.
But as the light sped and struck the opalescence it was blotted out!
When the great slab rolled away, no torrents of opalescence came rushing out upon us.
Footnote 153: A similar effect is obtained nowadays by means of a salt of uranium, but as is so often the case in the modern handling of old decorative systems, the opalescence is generally overdone.
In a certain aspect, there plays over this spot a violetopalescence of exceeding richness.
But still more exquisitely beautiful than any of these is the fine opalescence that irradiates some butterflies in the changing beam.
When the vesicles of the substance are filled with Canada balsam, and a thin slice is cut from it, this opalescence comes out in the most striking manner.
The ultra-microscopical vesicles filled with air in all probability give rise to the opalescence which is so marked a property of the substance.
Far overhead there was one fleeting glimpse of a pinpoint of dull opalescence reflecting the rays of the dying sun.
With regard to the turbidity or opalescence in a gelatine sol due to minute globules of grease, the case presents some analogy to the coarser colloid solutions, but the analogy has its limits, for an emulsion of grease is not an emulsoid sol.
The relux glowed, and the opalescence shifted with bewildering, confusing colors.
A diffused glow of opalescence ran over every ship--save the giant.
They reached out, touched the heavy relux of the fort, and it exploded into opalescence that was hazily white, the colors shifted so quickly.
In an instant one of the forts was a mass of opalescence that shifted so swiftly it was purest white, then rocketed away, lifeless, and no longer relux.
In an instant the opalescenceof the transformation showed on it, but its dozen ray projectors were at work.
In less than half a second the opalescence was gone, the fort shuddered, and shrieked out of the planet's atmosphere, a mass of lux now, and susceptible to the moleculars.
A ship glowed with the ray, the opalescence of relux under moleculars visible on its walls.
The solution must be detannised by shaking with chromed hide powder till no turbidity or opalescencecan be produced in the clear solution by salt-gelatine solution.
An aqueous solution of the product completely precipitates gelatine, gives a strong opalescencewith aniline hydrochloride and a deep violet coloration with ferric chloride.
If formaldehyde is gradually added to the neutralised phenolsulphonic acid in the cold, opalescence immediately results; on addition of water, the liquid assumes a milky appearance.
The sodium salt gives a deep violet coloration with ferric chloride, a slight precipitate with gelatine, and slight opalescence with aniline hydrochloride.
A dark brown, viscous liquid is obtained which is perfectly soluble in water, and the aqueous solution of which gives opalescence with gelatine, a precipitate with aniline hydrochloride, and a bluish-black coloration with ferric chloride.
The latter gives a brownish-black coloration with ferric chloride, completely precipitates gelatine, but gives no opalescence with aniline hydrochloride.
Peptones, if present, yield a similar haze, and quinine or other alkaloid a more or less crystalline precipitate; but in both these cases the opalescence is completely dissipated by heat.
By this means very small traces of albumen are easily observed, the opalescence produced contrasting strongly with the cold and clear fluid beneath.
In eighty-four hours the general opalescence was not more marked, but there were many flake-like aggregations in the fluid, which on microscopical examination were found to be aggregations of Bacteria.
On the tenth day there was no distinct opalescence of the fluid, but a well-marked whitish flocculent deposit.
In fifty hours after the inoculation there was a very faint opalescence of the fluid, which, in another 24 hours, had become much more marked.
Contact with sea-water causes an opalescence and eventual disintegration of the tissues, which precisely resemble the effects of fresh water upon the marine Medusae.
The opalescence above referred to principally affects the manubrium, tentacles, and margin of the nectocalyx.
An area several hundred yards in diameter seemed one vivid welter of pulsing colors, with flashing lances of every hue crisscrossing in and through a great central cloud of ever-changing opalescence like a fiery aurora borealis gone mad.
Either the small shining globe was practically indestructible, or else it had been spared by some odd freak of the explosive, for it still blazed in baleful opalescence atop the shattered head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opalescence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: luster; nacre; rainbow
