In thirty minutes more the candles were wired in place; a few skilful twists had turned part of the tinfoil into silvery ornaments to hang beneath, while the rest had gone to the making of a great star to blaze on the top-most bough.
We've nothing but ordinary white candles, but we can cut them in two, and wire them on with hairpins, and cover the pins with tinfoil out of my scrap-box that you make so much fun of.
White lead is generally used at the joints where the burner screws into the fixture, but tinfoil wrapped round the joint will give good service.
This is a series of insulated tinfoil sheets, which has the property of nullifying the spark at B, and so preventing the waste of platinum with which both adjustment screw A and spring R are equipped.
Emptying the few remaining scraps of candy into a paper bag, she smoothed out the lace paper, the ribbons, and the tinfoil to save to show to Hazel Lee.
To charge the jar the outside tinfoil is connected with the ground, and the inside is excited by means of the knob from the prime conductor of the machine.
Cut a circular piece of tinfoil a little larger than the bottom of the bottle, and paste it down with the edge pressed up against the side.
Let thetinfoil cover the glass two-thirds or what not from the base, and leave no breaks below the line.
Watson it was who put the inside and outsidetinfoil coatings on the jar.
You see, the Frenchman had dexterously changed the marked bullet for a similar one in appearance, but composed of an amalgam of tinfoil and quicksilver, which is about the same weight as lead, and disperses on the firing.
Over each of them a piece of tinfoil was pinched to represent the storm-clouds, and in one of the corners of each cloud, in order to make things easy for the electricity, we squeezed in a brass ball.
Tinfoil Papers, required for packing tea, coffee, and similar foodstuffs, are prepared by coating cheap paper with a solution of gum and finely powdered tin.
If a slip of pure tinfoil be suspended for six hours in a solution, which should not contain more than one-tenth of its bulk of ClH, and exhibit no stain or deposit, it is certain that antimony cannot be present.
Then a print is made and a wet plate negative is printed on a sheet of sensitised tinfoil which has been treated with a single-line screen.
Also cut out from the waste pieces of tinfoilstrips (D), one inch by two inches.
The jar (A) is of glass coated exteriorly at its lower end with tinfoil (B), which extends up a little more than halfway from the bottom.
The sudden parting of H and S would produce strong sparking across the gap between them if it were not for the condenser, which consists of a number of tinfoil sheets separated by layers of paraffined paper.
On one side of this figure paste tinfoil bringing the tinfoil to the other side of the figure just a little at the edges.
You will be able to get your tinfoil from the packages of tea, chocolate, tobacco or other source.
It is also advisable to lay a little amalgam with tallow on the rubber, between the silk and the leather: a piece of tinfoil is also said to be of advantage when amalgam is not handy.
Underneath, in the grate, a glowing flame of crimson tinfoil shone comfortably, tinfoil being the fuel universally accepted for grates in doll houses.
Test the cover also to see that it is flat, especially on its under side, for to get good sparks, the tinfoiland rosin must come just as close together as possible.
If tin is used instead of tinfoil put it inside the box after the bottom has been nailed in place.
Cut a piece of tin 1/16" smaller than the glass, or glue some tinfoil on the inside of the bottom.
If tinfoil is to be used, smooth it on a piece of paper carefully with the fingers; then spread some glue thinly over the bottom, and lay the tinfoil on it.
Smooth them carefully on a piece of paper, spread glue thinly on the cover, lay the tinfoil on the glue, and smooth it with the fingers.
The tinfoilsticks to the back of the copper, and on the back of this is poured melted type-metal, until a solid plate has been formed, the surface of which is the copper facsimile and the body white metal.
To get this, a man melts sometinfoil in a shallow iron tray, which he places on the surface of molten lead, kept to that heat in square tanks over ordinary fires.
These were such a bother on my table that I pasted two strips of tinfoil on the wall at my desk, connecting one piece to the positive pole of the big battery supplying current to the wires and the negative pole to the other strip.
At the top of the building was a floor on which these novices were graduated in the use and care of the machine, and then, with an equipment of tinfoil and other supplies, they were sent out on the road.
The idea of forming the record on tinfoil had been early abandoned, and in its stead was substituted a cylinder of wax-like material, in which the record was cut by a minute chisel-like gouging tool.
The formation of the record in tinfoilwas also objectionable from a practical standpoint, since such a record was faint and would be substantially obliterated after two or three reproductions.
Add chalk marks or bits oftinfoil to indicate doors and lids.
Pieces of reed, wire, or twigs covered with tinfoil make good water pipes.
Cavendish measured the capacity of disks and condensers of various forms, and proved that the capacity of a Leyden pane is proportional to the surface of the tinfoil and inversely as the thickness of the glass.
As already mentioned, Faraday remedied this defect by coating the inside of the glass vessel in which the gold-leaves were suspended to form an electroscope with tinfoil (see fig.
Tinfoil beaten as thin almost as it will bear, is used to represent the more precious metals.
There is one famous temple that at times is visited by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, who all burn more or less of this paper money, and where the sale of the scorched and apparently useless tinfoil brings in thousands of dollars a year.
These different coloured pieces of tinfoil are pasted on coarse paper of a settled size and are then burned in the presence of the idol, who is credited with not having sense enough to know that it is being cheated.
The peddler I am describing has nothing to do with the buying of the refuse tinfoil in the temples.
In some of the more popular shrines, where the gods have the reputation of being able to bestow large favours on those who worship them, the income derived from this burned and shrivelled tinfoil is very considerable.
The profession of the collector of burnt tinfoil has unquestionably had a demoralizing effect upon him.
For varnish or tinfoil the resistance varied as v^(1.
The other kind, which are used when the force of the explosion is not enough to raise a piston, is operated by one of the tinfoil circuit-breakers.
Each of these consists of a strip of thintinfoil stretched across the gallery.
The effect of the closed tinfoil was no doubt of an electrostatic nature, for it presented a much greater resistance than the closed wire and produced therefore a much smaller electromagnetic effect.
The lamp-bulb was provided with a tinfoil coating on the side opposite to the primary and each time the tinfoil coating was connected to the ground or to a large object the luminosity of the circle was considerably increased.
On the back of each plate, indicated by the shaded portion, is a tinfoil coating t t.
The lower portion of the globe, as far as the socket S reaches, is rendered conducting, either by a tinfoil coating or otherwise, and the external electrode is connected to a terminal of the coil.
When the bulb is in use the neck n is provided with a tinfoil coating, which is connected to the generator and acts inductively upon the moderately rarefied and highly conducted gas inclosed in the neck.
The two tinfoil coatings I have joined by a conductor C, and the two wires I presently connect to the terminals of the coil.
A very thin wire glued upon a plate of hard rubber of great thickness, on the opposite side of which is fastened a tinfoil coating, is rendered intensely luminous when the coating is connected to the other terminal of the coil.
But if instead of the wire a broad strip of tinfoil is glued upon the bulb, the formation of the luminous band was prevented, because then the action was distributed over a greater surface.
It consisted of seventeen plates of thin mica, each five inches by four, coated on both sides with tinfoil within half an inch of the edge.
Glass plate or stand coated withtinfoil on each side, B.
If the glass plate coated with tinfoil is charged, and then placed upright on a stand, it may be slowly discharged by placing a bent wire on the edge with the extremities covered with pith balls.
Dutch metal was also used on a ground of varnish and red lead, as in second recipe; or gilt leaves of tinfoil on white lead ground in linseed oil, this last took a polish "as if it had been gilded in fire.
A cheap substitute for gilding could doubtless be made for large surfaces by layingtinfoil lacquered gold colour.
It must then be covered carefully with tinfoil (which can be obtained from a chemist), the tinfoil being glued down as smoothly as possible.
At the end of the wire which is inside the bottle a brass chain is fastened so as to touch the tinfoil inside the bottle when the cork is inserted.
The tinfoil inside and outside the bottle must only reach to the bottom of the neck, leaving a space between it and the cork.
Care must be taken that the tinfoil of the conductor overlaps the brass rod at either end, and thus forms a metallic connection.
The strips of tinfoil and paper are fed on to the roll in continuous lengths and in such manner that two sheets of paper will lie between the two strips of tinfoil in all cases.
Plate glass is employed for making looking glasses, and two processes are now in use for silvering them, the first of which consists in applying a sheet of tinfoil saturated with quicksilver to one side of the glass.
The operation is conducted as follows: on a perfectly smooth table a sheet of stout tinfoil is laid, and on it is poured quicksilver, which is distributed evenly over the surface with a hare's foot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinfoil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chaff; metal; window
