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Example sentences for "thin film"

  • Iron may be covered with a thin film of copper by merely immersing it (previously scoured clean) in an acidulated solution of sulphate of copper, after which it must be rinsed in clean water.

  • A mixture of pure copaiba with petroleum ether is clear at first, and either remains clear upon standing or it deposits after several hours a very slight sediment, which merely covers the bottom of the test tube like a thin film.

  • The usual mode of applying Gmelin's test is to place on the bottom of a common white plate or on a porcelain dish a thin film of the urine, and carefully bring in contact with it a thin film of nitric acid.

  • In {739} certain rare cases the inflammation is so intense that a thin film of fibrin is exuded in places upon the surface of the colon.

  • Such a japan, too, should, when floated in a thin film over a glass or other strictly non-porous surface, dry firm and without brittleness in four hours.

  • The samples then poured in a thin film over a piece of glass and allowed to stand will determine the drying property of each.

  • Other recipes include rubbing the surface with a thin solution of starch and water, or glazing it with the white of an egg, or washing it with whiting and water, or applying a thin film of potato starch upon it.

  • Roll the tubes, held almost horizontally, in a groove made in a block of ice, until the gelatine has set in a thin film on the inner surface of tube (Fig.

  • Spread a thin film of the emulsion on a newly flamed cover-slip, using no force, but rather leading the drop over the cover-slip with the platinum loop.

  • Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc.

  • A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.

  • The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.

  • Castor with a little croton oil throws out a spray, which in a few moments unites into a thin film.

  • When dried they become more brittle and more splintery, and sometimes their surfaces get covered at old fractures with a thin film or crust of opaque silex.

  • These rondelles are immediately immersed in cold water, to prevent the oxidation of the copper; whereupon the metal becomes of a cochineal red colour, and gets covered with a thin film of protoxide.

  • Busts and other objects made of cast iron acquire a bronze aspect by being well cleaned and plunged in solution of sulphate of copper, whereby a thin film of this metal is left upon the iron.

  • Defn: A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.

  • Defn: The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.

  • Defn: A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.

  • With thumb and finger bring the glasses into close contact, so that the milk forms a thin film.

  • A little of the mixture may now be placed in a thin film on a slide covered with a cover slip and left to cool.

  • Whenever there is a sufficient amount of water available, a thin film of water is found around every soil grain; and where the soil grains touch, or where they are very near together, water is held pretty much as in capillary tubes.

  • The chief things to observe are to make a sound joint the full depth of the lug, and not merely to get a thin film of brass round the outer edge.

  • A single blow of this instrument gives it its final form, leaving the superfluous metal in the shape of a thin film, where it has been squeezed into the opening between the dies, which is cut off by a subsequent stamping process.

  • After having sweetened and mashed the gooseberries, with the same steel fork, I was about to convey some to my mouth, when I observed the prongs to be completely coated with a thin film of bright metallic copper.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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