Because the carbon radiates the heat, and disperses it, and reduces the heat of the flame below that temperature which is essential to its luminosity.
And because too rapid a flow of cold air reduces the temperature below the point at which combustion can be maintained.
It therefore reducesthe heat, and extinguishes the flame.
Because the too rapid flow of cold air reduces the temperature of the burning mass.
The Code Noir of the South robs the slave of all his rights as a man, reduces him to a chattel personal, and defends the master in the exercise of the most unnatural and unwarrantable power over his slave.
And what must reason do with a book, which reduces the authority of its own principles--breaks the force of self-evident truths?
Besides, I met several of that class of men who always put me to flight; students strutting along in gown and cap, and wearing in every feature a nameless expression that reduces me to rout and discomfiture.
It is a far higher and remoter thing than the elements it is compacted of and that suggest it; what habits of appearance and disappearance the latter may have, the object reduces to permanent and calculable principles.
This sub-human sense, far from representing important truths more clearly than ordinary apprehension can, reduces consciousness again to a tangle of trivial impressions, shots of uncertain range, as if a skin had not yet formed over the body.
A rational ethics reduces them at once to their slender representative rôle; and it surrounds and buttresses them on every side with all other natural ideals.
Wealth is excessive when it reduces a man to a middleman and a jobber, when it prevents him, in his preoccupation with material things, from making his spirit the measure of them.
It produces in them a thickening, a shrinking and an inactivity that reduces their functional power.
The system which reduces every thing in matter to movements is as simple as it is curious.
The Code Noir of the South robs the slave of all his rights as a man, reduces him to a chattel personal, and defends the master in the exercise of the most unnatural and unwarrantable power over his slave.
The sugar takes possession of a portion of the oxygen of the cupreous oxide, and reducesit to the protoxide; when it may be precipitated in the form of a granular powder of a brilliant red.
This liquid heated with the nitrates of mercury or silver reduces these metals.
Each of these reduces to a fine impalpable metalliferous mud, six quintals (600 lbs.
By this means he reduces it into several manageable pieces, and he gives to each the requisite length, by cutting cross grooves on the flat face, and then striking the slab with the chisel.
The Hindoo shawl, also woven at Paris, has its warp in spun silk, which reduces its price without impairing its beauty much.
To conclude, the refining by crystallization reduces the cost of the parting of lead and silver, in the proportion of 3 to 1; and allows of extracting silver from a lead which contains only about 3 oz.
The workman reduces the ingot to the thickness of 1/6 of an inch at most; and during this Operation he anneals it whenever its substance becomes hard and apt to crack.
Water first softens, and then reduces it to a pasty magma.
Nothing more quickly destroys the character of a journal, begets distrust of it, and so reducesits value, than the well-founded suspicion that its editorial columns are the property of advertisers.
But if, instead of sympathizing with the situation of his workman, he forms a combination with all the mills of his sort, and reduces wages merely to increase his gains, he is guilty of an act as worthy of indictment as the strike.
Unpleasant weather usually reduces places to an equality of disagreeableness.
At the beginning soak your charcoal in water, so as leave it more tooth; then clean it, and continue with oil, which reduces the wear on the copper.
This acid is fresh, and has not yet been used; bought at forty degrees, I mix it with an equal quantity of water, which reduces it to twenty degrees.
The magnitude of the Soul does not consist in being a corporeal mass; for every corporeal mass is small, and reduces to nothing, if it be made to undergo a diminution.
She thus escapes manifoldness, reduces manifoldness to unity, and abandons the indeterminate.
The presumptuous hope of success seems to act here as upon all other occasions, and to entice so many adventurers into those hazardous trades, that their competition reduces the profit below what is sufficient to compensate the risk.
When the trade or practice becomes thoroughly established and well known, the competition reduces them to the level of other trades.
It sinks the price of coloured silks and cloths, and thereby reduces the profits of the merchants who have any considerable quantity of them upon hand.
Whatever reduces the real price of the latter, raises that of the former.
That industry has its limits like every other; and the increase of stock, by increasing the competition, necessarily reduces the profit.
When the ordinary price of any particular produce of land is at what may be called a monopoly price, a tax upon it necessarily reduces the rent and profit of the land which grows it.
It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number.
He reduces motion to mechanical force as its necessary original form and so renders incomprehensible the real connection between matter and motion which was also not evident to the earlier materialists.
The well-proven fact that alcohol, when it is taken into the body, reduces the animal temperature, is full of the most important suggestions.
The discharge is weakening, as it impoverishes the blood, and thus reduces the strength.
In brief, it usually accompanies every uterine disorder which vitiates and reduces the system.
This gives more room, reduces the generation of heat in the stable or milking place, and lessens the amount of droppings and consequent bad odors rising from them.
Anything that irritates a cow, while being milked, reduces both quality and quantity.
This grease is very difficult to remove and reduces the selling value of sole leather by about 2d.
This process is to be greatly deprecated, since it reduces the strength of the leather.
This method of soaking is always dangerous, apart from the great loss of gelatine, for the thin grain (hyaline layer) is liable to be eaten away in patches, a defect which greatly reduces the value of leather.
It is Red that imparts oxydation, Blue that resolves it and reduces the poles to indifference.
But Man lets the crude matters ferment or reduces them to rapid decomposition by cooking, whereby a mixed kind of food results, which bears obviously the greatest resemblance to dung which, as just observed, is a food cooked by nature.
This digestion consequentlyreduces the (animal) food to the signification of the plant.
He reduces the meat taken and usually allows it at but one meal.
Lack of air and of exercise, furthermore, makes them prone to constipation, makes their sleep less restful, and reduces the appetite.
Even more interesting than the fact that war reduces the suicide rate is the further fact that a reduction of the number of suicides takes place after any severe cataclysm.
It reducesgreatly the cost of finishing of beef animals for market.
It reduces this theory to practice by supplanting the parent by the pedagogue.
The great Republic, through this process, has entered the avenues of private enterprise, and with its crushing weight reduces labor to starvation wages.
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