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Example sentences for "residuum"

Lexicographically close words:
residing; residual; residuary; residue; residues; resign; resignation; resignations; resigne; resigned
  1. Supposing a given quantity of atmospherical air to be mixed with an equal quantity of nitrous air, and the residuum to be 1.

  2. The residuum consists of a violet-coloured powder, which, by sublimation, is converted into cinnabar.

  3. After agitation in water it loses this property, and the residuum is merely inflammable air, with no great diminution of its bulk.

  4. It burns with smoke and soot, and leaves a residuum of a coaly substance.

  5. The residuum consists of revived mercury, with some regulus and calx of antimony.

  6. That the bores of all guns shall be frequently washed, the grooves of rifled guns cleaned of all residuum and dirt, and a moist sponge invariably used.

  7. The reader must, however, have been struck, while examining the summaries just given, with the great diversity of the residuum which would be left if the parts properly belonging to The Grateful Dead were taken away.

  8. It is sufficient for the moment to recognize the tendency of the simpler variants to fall into groups on the basis of the residuum left by subtracting traits belonging to The Grateful Dead.

  9. The true way to solve the riddle appears to be this: we must ask the question,--what is the residuum when the tale is stripped of elements not common to a very great majority of the versions belonging to the cycle?

  10. Strain the rest through a fine soup-sieve, without pressing the residuum in the bottom, season it, and having skimmed it carefully after the boil, stir in the soaked tapioca.

  11. Amos's school that grandma Stebbins could find in the carefully saved pile of old school books that were housed in the garret, the residuum of former school generations.

  12. In a small residuum of cases diƓcious plants or flowers are regarded as male and female, but with no real comprehension of the sexual nature of the flowers.

  13. This theory centres around the relatively low fusibility of the magma-residuum that gives rise to palagonite.

  14. In the case of such basaltic flows it is probable that their upper portions are formed entirely of palagonite arising from the alteration of a vitreous magma-residuum extruded on the surface in the manner above described.

  15. This solidified magma-residuum differs from the ordinary basic glass not only in its lower degree of fusibility but in its mineral composition and in its molecular condition.

  16. Regarded as a solidified magma-residuum of low fusibility, 342.

  17. During the consolidation of the flow much of the magma-residuum that still retained its fluidity was extruded on the surface, where after solidification it became palagonitised.

  18. Sifting out in this way unworthy formulations, she can leave a residuum of conceptions that at least are possible.

  19. To our own consciousness there is usually a residuum of worth left over after our sins and errors have been told off--our capacity of acknowledging and regretting them is the germ of a better self in posse at least.

  20. This formation appears to be the diluvial residuum or ultimate wash, which arranged itself agreeably to the laws of its own gravitation, on the recession of the watery element, to which its comminution is clearly due.

  21. The turbid water which passes through is allowed to stand so that the suspended matter may settle, and after decanting the clear supernatant water, the residuum is again thrown on to the filter.

  22. The perfectly dried matter is best treated in exactly the same way as a residuum in water analysis.

  23. Some residuum of such malice and cruelty there must be, even in the supremest work of art, else the eternal contradictions upon which life depends would be destroyed.

  24. It is the residuum of Christianity when the mysterious elements have been subtracted.

  25. This new view is probably unconsciously derived from Hegel, and is the residuum left by his philosophy.

  26. You don't find in this residuum any ash whatever, unless the combustion has been mixed with foreign matter.

  27. Indeed, the unexplained residuum would seem to indicate that so far we have merely been considering the three dimensional aspects of four dimensional processes.

  28. The process of squaring the circle recognized as a geometric impossibility is significant of the fluxional nature of the universal residuum perpetually maintained between the archetypal and the manifested kosmos.

  29. All the same there would be left, in any case, a large residuum of taboos which could only be judged as senseless, and the mere rubbish of the savage mind.

  30. We are apt, after proving that there is a residuum beyond what chance will account for on due allowance made for positive frequency, to take for granted that we have proved some particular cause for this residuum.

  31. Now we have not really explained the residuum by the application of the principle of chances: we have only isolated a problem for explanation.

  32. When it is all gone, there will be left the force of gravitation, holding with adamantine grasp the dead residuum of suns and planets; and, strange conclusion to which these premises force us, this residuum must be matter without force.

  33. Yet the mineral kingdom is the result, and the residuum of a process of life and formation already passed.

  34. That matter which lies before us, apparently inorganic, is the residuum of organic metamorphoses, which could not become organic.

  35. The residuum of distillation is called bosson, and by the Mongols tsakha.

  36. The residuum of the distillation of milk-brandy, which is sharp, and has a smell like wine lees, is applied to various uses.

  37. Now if these, or a considerable proportion of them, had been drawn from the moral residuum of England, a very serious impression would have been made on the ranks of vice and crime.

  38. He was, in fact, much more satisfactory than Scot; for he explained just what was his residuum of belief.

  39. In general, however, these records of depositions are sources whose residuum of fact it is not difficult to discover.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "residuum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afterglow; aftermath; balance; butt; chaff; debris; detritus; end; filings; fossil; heel; husk; leavings; leftover; paring; rag; refuse; relics; remainder; remains; remnant; residue; rest; roach; rubbish; ruin; rump; sawdust; scouring; scrap; sediment; shadow; shaving; straw; stubble; stump; survival; sweepings; trace; vestige; waste