Melted rock is forced up from the heated interior into a cavity or crack in the earth’s crust, cools and solidifies there, and, like a metallic casting, assumes the form of the fissure or mould.
That portion which flows out on the surface builds up a volcanic cone, while that which cools and solidifies below the surface, in the fissures, forms dikes.
The point at with it melts and solidifies is determined by putting this tube in a beaker glass filled with water and warming with a small flame.
Cotton seed oil is insoluble, and the solution obtained by heating the solution solidifies at 60° Fahr.
If the materials are perfectly dry, it solidifiesto a mass of crystals as soon as it condenses, but if there be a trace of water present it remains liquid.
The amber-coloured liquid that remains in the flask solidifies upon cooling, and appears then as a slightly citrine-coloured friable mass.
If the temperature is too low, or the stirring too slow, the product separates as an oil, which later solidifiesin large lumps.
That is to say, our understanding solidifies all that it touches.
It is only interested in the outcrops scattered here and there over the firm soil of the practical, and it solidifies "terms" like stakes plunged in a moving ground.
It is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures, and it solidifies at about -39º Centigrade to a soft, malleable, ductile metal.
Like all other gases, it is condensed by great cold and pressure to a liquid which freezes and solidifies by its own evaporation.
Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin.
Commodity is preserved as wealth, as commodity, only in so far as it keeps within the sphere of circulation, and it keeps in that fluent state only in so far as it solidifies in the form of silver and gold.
But when the lavasolidifies the water is expelled much more energetically, and the water-vapor separates in the form of minute vesicles.
If the distance the lava is thrown upwards is sufficiently great the melted matter solidifiesbefore it falls to the earth.
This ebb continues, and, combined with the progressive narrowing of the molten lake as more and more of it solidifies and joins the shore layers, gives rise to the pipe, a cavity like an inverted pear, as shown at C in fig.
Blowholes may be lessened or even wholly prevented by adding to the molten metal shortly before it solidifies either silicon or aluminium, or both; even as little as 0.
Incisions in the trunk exude a brownish resin which solidifies in the air, is slightly acrid, bitter, dissolves in alcohol and partially in water.
The only difference is that the former has a blander odor and solidifies at 1°.
The only inconvenience connected with its use is the slight one that it solidifies at 3° C.
It melts at 190°, and solidifies at freezing point, forming a resinous mass.
The fixed oil is bright yellow, saponifiable by potash, soluble in chloroform and ether, insoluble in alcohol, solidifies at 10°.
The molten cast iron is poured direct into these moulds, and as they travel along they pass beneath a body of water, which cools and solidifiesthe iron into pigs, and then carries them up an incline and dumps them directly into the cars.
It knits all the elements of a man's character--rendering him solid rather than fluid; yet carried out too literally and pragmatically it condenses and solidifies the character overmuch, making the man woodeny and angular.
Much may be learned, it is gold; poets and wits, then it is fountains whose spray solidifies into jewels, and every herb and plant is begemmed with the sparkle of the diamond and the glow of the ruby.
It is a well-known practical fact that a first-class finishing varnish and white lead carefully mixed solidifies amazingly throughout.
In addition, it absorbs more oil, solidifies it, and remains elastic for a greater length of time, except red lead perhaps, than any other pigment so far discovered.
The acid is an oily liquid of unpleasant smell, and solidifies at -19° C.
Boil down rapidly, solution of potash, 2 pints, in a silver or clean iron vessel, until there remains a fluid of oily consistence, a drop of which removed on a warm glass rod solidifies on cooling.
The pasty mixture soon solidifiesto a friable mass resembling crude aniline red--ordinary commercial aniline.
Filter through paper into a polished iron dish, washing with the rest of the water, and boil until a drop of the solution taken out on iron wire solidifies on cooling.
As the chocolate cools, itsolidifies and contracts so that it comes out of the mould clean and bright.
It is simply liquified cacao bean, and solidifies on cooling to a chocolate coloured block.
For the rain softens limestone or sandstone and carries particles away with it, and the sediment collects together and forms mud, which afterward solidifies into some kind of 'earth.
The part which still remains liquid is poured away, and the process is repeated until a residue is obtained which solidifiesas a whole.
The method of removing the last traces of water depends upon the fact that acetic acid solidifies at 17° C.
The fat is squeezed out through the meshes of the fabric and floats on the surface of the water as an oil which solidifies on cooling.
Evaporation is, therefore, carried on until the liquid which remainssolidifies when cold.
After this treatment, there is left in the vessel an oily layer which solidifies on cooling and an aqueous layer which contains the glycerine.
It is not merely that cold solidifies the water in your jug.
It equally solidifies the water in everybody's jug.
Nay, after having become liquid, it frequently solidifies again, just at the hours between 12 M.
The slag solidifies into a hard stone which is broken up and used for making concrete and tar-paving, also for road metal.
In this case the freezing point of each of the components is lowered by the addition of the other, until at last a point is reached at which the liquid solution solidifies to a mixture or conglomerate of two mixed crystals.
On allowing the mixture to cool slightly, the upper layer solidifies first, and can be separated from the still molten lead layer.
Although at the eutectic point the solution solidifies entirely without change of temperature, the solid which is deposited is not a homogeneous solid phase, but a mixture, or conglomerate of the two components.
Potassium perchlorate, KClO4, can be obtained by carefully heating the chlorate until it first melts and then nearly all solidifies again.
Chloroform solidifies in the cold and then melts at -62 deg.
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