To look for fuel before the sun sets is not to be thought of, for the saline plains in the south are absolutely barren.
The spray trickled down our necks, was pleasantly cool, and had a saline taste.
Hydrochloric acid is most readily detected by neutralising with ammonia, and evaporating to dryness in a water-bath; the ammonium cyanide decomposes and volatilises, leaving as a saline residue chloride of ammonium.
The solubility of copper in water and saline solutions has been very carefully studied by Carnelley.
And then, whereas theSaline parts of the Spirits of Guajacum, &c.
This great salt mine seems to pervade with its influence the whole Ortous district, throughout whose extent the water is brackish, the soil arid, and the surface encrusted with saline matter.
The quantity of matter mechanically inclosed is relatively high, as in the precipitation of much lead peroxide there is relatively more saline matter occluded than when a few centigrammes are deposited.
In this manner Classen separates other metals from manganese in order to prevent the saline solutions from being retained by the peroxide.
The methods of Riche and May give results which are always too high, since portions of saline solution are retained by the spongy deposit and can be but very imperfectly removed by washing.
If, on the other hand, we commence with a saturated saline solution, in general it is noticed on cooling the liquid a separation of salt ensues, which salt sinks to the bottom of the mass, and may be removed.
With the Hwang ho confined to its channel, the adjacent low lands can be better drained by canalization and freed from the accumulating saline deposits which are rendering them sterile.
Fear not this saline Cousin Fred; He gives no tragic mischief birth; There are no tears for you to shed, Unless they may be tears of mirth.
With nothing saline in his composition, All Salts but two were his Nostrums.
He had made arrangements with an old hunter, living near Fort Harker, to go out to the Saline Valley and capture another young one.
The latter had often accompanied the Pawnees on their hunts as far as the Saline and Paradise creeks, twenty-five miles from the Oxhide.
Do you think the savages will continue on their raid, and come further down the Saline valley?
The buffalo paths all came out on the other side of the high divide separating the Saline from the Smoky Hill.
I counted their pony tracks in the soft mud at the ford of the Saline where they crossed it; they were very plain, and I was enabled to come close to their probable number.
The cattle had been a long time without salt, and had a strong desire to lick up the saline incrustation, that in some places covered the earth to an eighth of an inch in thickness.
Where the saline incrustations did not cover the ground, there grew a short, sour herbage, browsed upon by blesboks, wilde beests, and several other species of antelopes.
Maury, a recognised authority, finds in the saline properties of the sea one of the principal forces from which the currents in the ocean proceed.
In parts of the Irish Channel the water contains salts equal to the fortieth of its weight, the saline matter rising to one-sixteenth of its weight off the coast of Spain.
The chloride of sodium, compounded in the laboratory of the great saline aquarium and respired without effort, is freighted with the germs of health, which are productive of beneficial effect in many forms of pulmonic complaints.
Its leaves are powdered over with a white saline substance, indeed, why not salt itself?
The Mislah water is full of saline particles, and is purging every body.
It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.
Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.
At nightfall the command made camp near the Saline River, at which point it was expected to find the Indians.
It derived its name from the saline properties of the little stream that rushed along its pebbly bed to empty its clear waters into the muddy Missouri.
Traveling northeast, they skirted around Fort Harker, and made their first appearance among the settlers in the Saline Valley, about thirty miles north of that post.
Black Kettle, the chief, was an old man, and did not himself go with the raiders to the Saline and Solomon, and on this account his fate was regretted by some.
Licorice powder, cascara, saline cathartics such as Seidlitz powders and Rochelle Salts and some others are harmless for occasional use, if occasional is not too liberally interpreted.
Soda mints or a teaspoonful of baking soda may be given dissolved in hot water, and unless diarrhoea is present a Seidlitz powder or other saline cathartic may be given.
But they retained a saline taste from having been in the sea-water, and no one proceeded far with the experiment.
On the 4th instant they had a skirmish--fifteen or thirty guns fired on both sides, one man from Saline county wounded in the hip.
According to Carlo Musitano, the real cause of toothache consists in the irritant action of saline or acid particles on the extremely thin membrane that lines the alveoli or on the exquisitely sensitive nerves of the teeth.
But Naturalists observe that there is a saline spirit in it, which is hot, by means whereof Plants under the Snow are kept from freezing.
It is thought that this river passes through chalk and saline strata, of which there are many in the island, and of which I shall later speak more fully.
Others pretend that this plain is not inundated by the sea, but that it possesses saline springs, more bitter than sea water, which send forth their waters when the tempest rages.
Here also the ground was covered with a saline effloresence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: brackish; pickled; salt; salty
