Such stupidity has allowed the joy of life which, as Epikuros and Platina believe, may be indulged in with perfect virtue and honesty to become a byword among all good people who are not gastronomers either by birth, by choice or by training.
Platina also adds the squill or sea onion to this category.
The mutual action of the platina and the alcohol will be displayed by an increase of temperature, and a generation of acid vapours, which, condensing on the sides of the glass-case, trickle in streams to the bottom.
A spiral slip of platina foil immersed in the liquid may tend to equalise its ebullition.
A portion of the black platina powder moistened being suspended over each dish, let as much vinous spirits be put into them as the oxygen of the included air shall be adequate to acidify.
The gold and platina lustre is almost always applied to a paste body made on purpose, and coated with the above-described lead glaze.
If the platina solution be too strong, more spirit of tar must be added to it; but if too weak, it must be concentrated by boiling.
When the drained crystals are fused in a platina capsule, and cast into slender cylinders in silver moulds, they constitute the lunar caustic of the surgeon.
Assaying has been also extended of late years, to determine the quantity of palladium and platina in certain bullion and gold dust brought from Brazil.
When a platina capsule, containing gunpowder spread on its bottom, is floated in oil heated to 400 deg.
With a box of 12 cubic feet in capacity, and with a provision of 7 or 8 ounces of the platina powder we can, in the course of a day, convert one pound of alcohol into pure acetic acid, fit for every purpose, culinary or chemical.
If a few platina wires be held in that dim flame they will grow instantly white hot, and illuminate the apartment.
A bent bit of thin platina wire weighing only fiftieth of a grain (1.
Passiflora gracilis possesses the most sensitive tendrils which I have observed: a bit of platina wire 0.
When potash was introduced into a tube having a platina wire attached to it--so--and fused into the tube so as to be a conductor, i.
When Potash was introduced into a tube having a platina wire attached to it so & fixed into the tube so as to be a conductor ie.
In these processes he employed the agate cups, with platina wires, connected by amianthus moistened with pure water; the solutions were introduced into these cups, and the electrifying power applied in the manner already described.
A copper or platina tube, if you have one, will be proper for trying the experiment in.
There will then be a current of pure alcohol, gradually rising from the reservoir below, through the wick, sufficient to keep the upper coil of platina red-hot, until the whole of the alcohol is consumed.
Light the wick; and, when the coil of platina above the wick is red-hot, blow out the flame.
The Doctor touched a minute globule of it, in a platina spoon, resting on a table, with a fragment of phosphorus at the point of a pen-knife, and the blade was instantly shivered into fragments by the explosion.
That this decomposition is not due to the voltaic current, but to the heat produced by it, was subsequently proved by employing platinaheated by the oxy-hydrogen flame.
The animal tissue may act in the same way asplatina has already been shown to act in producing combination between gases; but of this we have no proof.
The College of Abbreviators was restored, the Roman Academy was recognised, and Platina was appointed librarian.
Wash the precipitate, dry it, and expose it to a red heat in a platina capsule: it is phosphate of magnesia.
The weight of the platina basin being already known, we have only to weigh it carefully.
Platina and Perotti were among his Italian proteges.
Christopher of Verona is mentioned by Platinain his life of Paul II as the physician of that Pope, but nothing more is known of him.
Dissolve any quantity of gold or platina in nitro-muriatic acid, (aqua regia,) until no further effervescence is occasioned by the application of heat.
Platina is precipitated from a solution in aqua regia by sal-ammoniac, as gold is by martial vitriol.
Pure platina is the heaviest body in nature, its specific gravity exceeding twenty-two.
Iron and platina have the property of welding when very hot, so that two pieces may be joined without any solder.
Platina does not readily combine with gold or silver, and it resists the action of mercury as much as iron; but it mixes well with lead, making it less ductile, and even brittle, according to the proportion of the platina.
Platina is a metal lately discovered in the gold mines of Mexico, where it is found in small particles, never exceeding the size of a pea, mixed with ferruginous sand and quartz.
Platina may be obtained in tolerable quantities at Lagos, but the place which produces it has been abandoned from want of a market.
Platina is also acted upon by this acid only; silver is dissolved by nitric acid.
A small quantity of alkaligen was produced round the platina wire.
This amalgam amalgamates with platina and iron, but soon flies off on exposure to the air.
When potash was introduced into a tube having a platina wire attached to it, so (fig.
Nevertheless Platina did a certain justice to his persecutor.
Platina tells us that he received this charge as if the Pope had "divided with him the care of the keys, the one ruling the church of St. Peter and the other that of St. Paul.
Behind Platina is Count Girolamo with a shock of black hair falling over large black eyes, his look contemptuous and his mien imperious.
Yet Calixtus was a person assai generoso, Platinatells us; in any case he occupied his great post for a very short time.
It was difficult to come to speech of him," Platina says, for this reason.
Nitromuriate of platina produced no precipitate, however concentrated the water might be.
Englehart prepared a fresh portion from phosphorus and nitric acid, evaporating the solution in a platina vessel, and heating it to redness.
Crystals of augite have been met with in the scoriae of furnaces, but never those of hornblende; and crystals of augite have been obtained by melting hornblende in a platina crucible; but hornblende itself has not been formed artificially.
The expansion of platina is the test employed by Mr. Daniell in his pyrometer, and this has been found to yield uniform and constant results, such as are in perfect harmony with conclusions drawn from various other independent sources.
The large number of gold and silver medals which Paul II buried in the foundation of his buildings was noticed, and Platina was by no means displeased to recognize an old pagan Telesma in the fact.
The same Platina and Giovio, whose great histories we only read because and so far as we must, suddenly come forward as masters in the biographical style.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "platina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
