I removed a number of discs formed during the previous year from a stuccoed wall, and left them during many hours, in warm water, diluted acetic acid and alcohol; but the attached grains of silex were not loosened.
These threads proceeded from the bark of the rootlet at one end, and at the other end were firmly attached to particles of silex or mortar from the wall.
Silex is the chief ingredient in quartz rock, which is so widely diffused over the earth, and enters into the composition of most of the precious stones.
Perhaps the best criticism on Vaughan may be found in the title of his own poems, 'Silex Scintillans.
These sharp-edged blades of silexmight serve as knives.
Silex Scintillans: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations of Henry Vaughan, with Memoir by the Rev.
The composition for white designs is made by grinding silex up with that flux, and printing it on, as for blue colours, upon brown or other coloured stoneware, which shows off the light hues.
The following are those generally adopted in one of the principal establishments of Staffordshire:-- For cream colour, Silex or ground flints 20 parts.
Also, as silex is not a constituent part of water, if incorporated at all, it can be held only in solution.
If the silex be derived from the earth, by what vessels is it conveyed to the surface of the plants?
If the silex proceed from water, where is the proof?
The object of this treatise is to describe the generation of silex and quartz, with their modifications or compositions, formed within mineral bodies of a different substance.
The third section has for title, "Generation du Silex et Quartz de la Pierre Puante.
I understood that the ruler, Silex Corundum, always went at the head of the troops when there was to be a battle, but there's a different person now.
Silex Corundum made a motion as of some body flying through space, and looked inquiringly at the travelers.
Silex Corundum appeared to understand, and he indicated that the unfortunate man would receive attention.
They started one morning in a large boat, which Silex Corundum, the ruler of Mars, had placed at their disposal, and in a short time were approaching the distant hills, at the foot of which was the great lake.
The hills consist of chalk and silex in very irregular strata: the silex is sometimes quite black; at other times it takes a lustre and transparency much resembling agate.
By analysis of the water, Mr. Faraday has ascertained that the solution of the silex is promoted by the presence of the alkali, soda.
In the manufacture of glass it is essential that the silex should be perfectly pure, as the slightest mineral taint affects the color.
The pig lead used is all obtained from the mines in the Western States; ashes from various sources in other States; and silex is also indigenous.
This company erected their works at Sandy Lake, a locality abounding both in silexand fuel.
With an auxiliary silex manufacturing plant at Branchville, Conn.
It carried boxes and cans of the company’s products and pieces of silex in its natural state.
It appears to me to be composed of silexnearly or quite pure, and possesses, as I find on treatment with potash, the property of easy fusibility.
This recent deposit appears to consist essentially of silex and alumine, in a state of very intimate mixture.
The large walls of silex tottered and fell upon the sand, and the sand itself, an instrument of pain when launched from its hardened bed, riddled the face with its myriads of cutting atoms.
Porthos, refreshed, had already himself commenced the descent, and his heavy step resounded among the cavities, formed and supported by columns of silex and granite.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
