Another is known by the name of the Horny Silver Ore, because when in thin platesit is semi-transparent: in this ore the silver is mineralized by sulphur and a little arsenic.
An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
With splendid success he applied the undulatory theory to the explanation of the colours of thin plates, and to those of striated surfaces.
The colours of thin plates, for example, occupied the attention of Robert Boyle.
These are the colours of thin transparent films of all kinds, known as the colours of thin plates.
If the same proportions be found to hold good with respect to thin plates of a denser medium, which is, indeed, not improbable, it will be necessary to adopt the connected demonstrations of Prop.
These are the principal Phaenomena of thin Plates or Bubbles, whose Explications depend on the properties of Light, which I have heretofore deliver'd.
Dublin, the surface of which is ornamented with compartments of thin plates of gold tooled with interlaced patterns.
They are composed of thin plates of gold measuring 8 inches in length by 2ΒΌ inches in width, divided into six sections, ornamented with scenes thoroughly Assyrian in character, indicated by lines of microscopic granulations (Pl.
When the third medium differs from the first, the theory of thin plates is more complicated, and need not here be discussed.
The complete theory of the colours of thin plates requires us to take account not merely of the two reflections already mentioned but of an infinite series of such reflections.
Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.
Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales.
A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
The first, which is still pursued by some French cutlers, consists in scooping out with a graving tool the faces of a piece of stuff composed of thin plates of different kinds of steel.
It is white, insipid, without smell, transparent in thin plates, friable, with a glassy fracture when well dried.
Capable of being split into lamin\'91 or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.
Stipule-scars encircling the twig; leaf-scars nearly surrounding the bud; bark peeling off in thin plates, exposing the lighter colored inner bark.
Twigs smooth, red-brown; trunk dark brown and broken into thin plates by shallow fissures; rich in tannin, bitter.
I have here a piece of glass in which a bubble was enclosed; by the compression of the glass the bubble is flattened, and the sides of the bubble approach each other so closely as to exhibit the colours of thin plates.
In treating of the Colours of Thin Plates we found that a certain thickness was necessary to produce blue, while a greater thickness was necessary for red.
The same effect may be produced by sheets of tin-plate, and by thin plates of mica; but, on account of their small size, the sound is shorter and more acute.
The boundaries a b c d, e f g h, are marked by a well-defined outline, and also by the concentric coloured rings of thin plates produced by the extreme thinness of each of the fluids at their edges.
But for laminated armor, (several thicknesses of thin plates,) harder and stronger iron offers greater resistance to shot, and steel crumbles less than when it is thicker.
Thin plates, breaking joints, and bolted to or through the backing, form a continuous girder and add vastly to the strength of a vessel, while solid blocks add no such strength, but are a source of strain and weakness.
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