Sago occurs in commerce in two states, pulverulent and granulated.
The shells are sometimes entirely decomposed, forming a pulverulent marl; sometimes in a state of good preservation.
The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form.
Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
The gills are narrow, close, free, white or nearly white, usually with a pulverulent edge.
The stem is subequal, cespitose, reticulate to the base, pulverulent below.
Defn: The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form.
Defn: Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
This might be made a genus, corresponding to Hypoxylon as to stroma, but having the stroma hollow and filled with a pulverulent mass.
The pulverulent mass is rather firm, and remains after the peridium breaks up.
If the pulverulentmaterial has penetrated into the œsophagus and stomach, the burial has occurred during life.
Briand and Chaudé[918] state that they are less constant and characteristic in those who have been buried in pulverulent substances.
In Onygenei, the receptacle is either club-shaped or somewhat globose, and the peridium is filled with branched threads, which produce asci of a very evanescent character, leaving the pulverulent sporidia to fill the central cavity.
When specimens are very old and decaying, the interior may become pulverulentor deliquescent.
As might be anticipated, this has considerable effect on the contour of the spores, which in pulverulent species are shorter, broader, and more ovate than in the compact species.
In Coleosporium there are two kinds of spores, one kind consisting of pulverulent single cells, and the other of elongated septate cells, which break up into obovate joints.
The two forms of spores in this genus are constantly found on the same leaf, and in the same pulvinule, but generally the pulverulent spores abound at the commencement of the summer.
The diffusion of these fruits is more or less complete according to their compact or pulverulent nature.
In some species, the sori are so pulverulent that the spores are as readily dispersed as in the Uredines, in others they are so compact as to be separated from each other with great difficulty.
Soon after the maturity of the pulverulent spores, each begins to emit a long tube, which is habitually simple, and produces at its summit a reproductive cellule, or reniform sporule.
The species of starch to which this name is given is characterised by its dissolving in boiling water, and giving a white pulverulent deposit in cooling.
Of these the most important is the proper admixture of the ingredients, and the condition of the manure as regards dryness, complete reduction to the pulverulent state, and the like.
The spontaneous conversion of a crystalline solid into a drypulverulent form.
He thinks the sophistication was probably effected by immersing the cochineal in sulphate of zinc, and then in an alkali, whereby the white pulverulent aspect of the genuine article was imparted, and the weight increased.
The whole is now to be evaporated to perfect dryness on the water bath, stirring towards the end, so that the sulphate may mix with the soaps, and produce an easy pulverulent residue.
The former must be distinguished from the white pulverulent precipitate of borate of silver, which is thrown down from pure borax.
The pulverulent materials of glass, heated until they coalesce without melting.
The absolute weight of metallic substances is augmented in proportion to the quantity of oxygen they absorb; they, at the same time, lose their metallic splendour, and are reduced into an earthy pulverulent matter.
This genus is distinguished by a cob-web-like veil, dry persistent gills, which in the mature plants become discolored, and pulverulent with the rusty or ochraceous colored spores.
The interior becomes pulverulent when the plant matures.
It is of tough but slightly vesicular and pulverulent volcanic tuff, pinkish-buff in color, and weighs 4 pounds 1 ounce (1.
The pulverulent granules, which were irregularly accumulated in the puff-balls, unite at length in a regular manner to constitute a trunk of varied form, as in the ascomycetes, e.
The sorus is an accumulation of seeds with pulverulent albumen contained in a membranaceous covering, the indusium.
It may happen that the combustible has been reduced to a pulverulent state, in which case it is unfit for use.
These volcanic clouds are grey or black, according to the quantity of ashes, that is, of pulverulent matter or dust, mixed with watery vapour, which they convey.
Burnt deposits are dark-coloured, or even pulverulent and useless.
By the combined action of heat and charcoal, it passes first into a red pulverulent oxide, and then into metallic lead.
The granular or nearly pulverulent alloy is usually wetted with a paste of ground borax and water, applied in this state, dried, and then exposed carefully to bright ignition at a clear forge fire.
Ives first directed attention to a yellow pulverulent substance which invests the scales of the catkins, amounting to about one eighth of their weight; and referred to it the valuable properties which hops impart to beer.
The membranes being thus retained, the granular particles are observed to float in the water, and afterwards to separate, like the globules of starch, in a white pulverulent semi-crystalline form.
An unguent, of rather a stiff consistence, made of oil, or lard and wax, thickened occasionally with pulverulent matters.
Sometimes several plates of glass are laid over each other with a layer of dry pulverulent lime between each.
The resin may be obtained pure by treating shell-lac with cold alcohol, and filtering the solution in order to separate a yellow gray pulverulent matter.
When tungsten occurs in the pulverulent form, it burns easily into tungstic anhydride, when heated in the air; and is oxidised and dissolved when boiled with the caustic alkalies or their carbonates in solution.
Any substance which has separated from its solution in a solid and, usually, a pulverulent or flocculent form.
There is no pulverulent state of iron so convenient as this for children, as it has no taste, and only a very small dose is required.
Pure pulverulent silver, obtained by any of the methods explained on the previous page.
Mucilage of gum Arabic or of gum tragacanth, thin isinglass size, or the strained white of egg, are the substances usually employed to make the pulverulent materials adhere together.
Fine mortar or cement used for plastering walls, in which the ingredients, in a pulverulent state, are mixed up, either entirely or with a considerable portion of linseed oil.
By evaporation, with the usual precautions, they may be obtained either in the pulverulent or crystalline form.
Platinum battery plates are covered with a pulverulentdeposit of platinum by means of the electrotype.
The specific gravity of osmium in the pulverulent form is about 10; but after having been heated to the fusing point of rhodium in the oxyhydrogen jet, it acquires a density of 21.
Metallic mercury is detected by its liquid condition and volatility; and, when in a finely divided or pulverulent state, by the microscope, or by staining a piece of copper white when the two are rubbed together.
SIFT'ING= is to pulverulent substances what filtration is to liquids; but in this case the medium through which the substance passes is, usually, of a simpler and coarser description.
Pileus sometimes pulverulent from the persistence of the veil in dry weather.
The tufted mode of growth, pulverulent pileus and paler-colored spores separate this species from the preceding one.
The gills are powdered by the spores, that is, the spores fall away with difficulty and thus give the gills a pulverulent appearance.
On account of the pulverulent coat of lime on the sporangium, Massee refers the species back to Didymium, where it was placed by Fries.
The latter when mixed with solidpulverulent substances, like magnesia, tripoli, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pulverulent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
