Since the common gases absorb very little radiant heat at ordinary temperatures, it has been assumed that they radiate very little at any temperature.
For solids, at ordinary temperatures, the specific heat may be considered a constant for each individual substance, although it is variable for high temperatures.
This is the case for CO2 even at ordinary temperatures, according to Regnault, and probably also for air and steam at higher temperatures.
The metal as obtained in this process is lustrous and takes a polish, does not melt in the oxyhydrogen flame, but liquefies in the electric arc, and is not affected by air at ordinary temperatures.
Acetylene reacts at ordinary temperatures with an ammoniacal solution of any cupric salt, forming a black cupric compound of uncertain constitution which explodes between 50° and 70° C.
Spring, of Liege, who formed alloys by strongly compressing their constituents as powders at ordinary temperatures.
It was this kind of selenium that Hittorf found to be a conductor of electricity at ordinary temperatures.
The giving forth of vapor is evidently not restricted to high or to ordinary temperatures, but may occur below the freezing point of water.
Nitrous anhydride thus produced is a blue liquid which emits red fumes, and which on admixture with water at ordinary temperatures is decomposed, producing nitric acid and nitric oxide.
In this process prolonged treatment with chlorine, at ordinary temperatures, is required to remove the last traces of iodine.
Its carbon is retained and assimilated with the body of the plant, while its oxygen is given out in the gaseous form; this decomposition being always effected under the influence of light at ordinary temperatures.
Pure mercury is unalterable in the air at ordinary temperatures.
By drying at ordinary temperatures, the hydrate Al(OH)3.
These figures are true only at ordinary temperatures.
The lower members of the series are neutral liquids possessing a characteristic smell; they are soluble in water and are readily volatile (formaldehyde, however, is a gas at ordinary temperatures).
Bleaching-powder is a compound obtained by the action of free chlorine on hydrated lime, containing a slight excess of water at ordinary temperatures or slightly above these.
Certain oils, such as the linseed oil used in paints, slowly undergo oxidation at ordinary temperatures, and not infrequently the origin of fires has been traced to the spontaneous combustion of oily rags.
About ten of the elements are gases at ordinary temperatures.
In the case of a few of the metals this change occurs at ordinary temperatures.
The process proceeds slowly and quietly, equally well in close vessels, as with contact of air, and continues at ordinary temperatures about 12 days; but it goes on more rapidly and completely at the heat of from 77 deg.
At ordinary temperaturesit is inodorous, but when heated strongly it emits the smell of hops.
At ordinary temperatures it is liquid, of a dark brown colour in mass, but of a hyacinth-red in thin layers.
To take a simple example:--oxygen and hydrogen are two gases which may be mixed in all proportions at ordinary temperatures, and it is easy to show that the properties of the products are simply those of mixtures of the two free gases.
It remains solid at ordinary temperatures, becoming liquid at about 70° F.
Milk is so well adapted to the development of bacteria in general, that it is not surprising to find it a suitable medium for the growth of many pathogenic species even at ordinary temperatures.
Ordinarily if milk is allowed to stand for several days at ordinary temperatures it turns sour.
It is the only commonly occurring metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures; it solidifies at about -40 degrees.
Non-metals are either gaseous or solid at ordinary temperatures, and of low specific gravity.
Metals are solid at ordinary temperatures, and usually of high specific gravity.
It burns with a blue flame, forming water and sulphur dioxide, and is soluble in water; water absorbing about three volumes at ordinary temperatures.
They have little to do with the ordinary acid fermentation as they grow very slowly at ordinary temperatures.
Some of the bacteria derived from the inside of the udder of the cow form acid, but these forms grow very slowly in milk at ordinary temperatures, and have no influence on the keeping quality.
It remains solid at ordinary temperatures, becoming liquid at about 80 deg.
This solution works well at ordinary temperatures, or slightly warm, with a current density of ten ampères per square foot.
For the reason already explained, it would have been futile to experiment with this substance at ordinary temperatures, and therefore as a preliminary it was cooled to the temperature of boiling liquid air, about -190 deg.
The coefficient of solid mercury is about half that of the liquid metal, while that of sodium is about the value of mercury at ordinary temperatures.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinary temperatures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
