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Example sentences for "when pure"

  • This salt, when pure, or even mixed with other saline substances, is recognised by placing it on hot coals.

  • Sal ammoniac is a salt, composed of muriatic acid and ammonia, and, when pure, is white, and capable of being sublimed without decomposition.

  • When pure, it contains, according to Kirwan, potassa 51.

  • Gum arabic, which exudes from a tree that grows in Egypt and Arabia (Mimosa nilotica) when pure is transparent, and nearly colourless.

  • When pure, it should be easily soluble in hydrochloric acid with brisk effervescence.

  • When pure it is attracted by the magnet, and is entirely soluble in hydrochloric acid; and ammonia added to the solution throws down a black precipitate.

  • When pure beeswax (bleached) is digested in boiling alcohol for some time, a solution of myricin and cerin is formed.

  • When pure it is wholly soluble, with effervescence, in dilute hydrochloric acid.

  • When pure it is perfectly transparent and colorless.

  • The substance is a heavy, colorless liquid, possessing, when pure, a pleasant ethereal odor.

  • When pure, lime is a white amorphous substance.

  • For this reason, when pure zinc is used in the preparation of hydrogen a few drops of platinum chloride are often added to the solution to assist the chemical action.

  • This fine melon originated in Clarendon County, South Carolina; and, when pure, may at all times be readily recognized by the peculiarly characteristic markings of the seeds.

  • They are, however, quite distinct, and, when pure, very beautiful.

  • This is an old variety, and, when pure, still stands in high estimation; having a head nearly as large and as white as a cauliflower.

  • When pure it affords a very valuable means of adjusting the scale of high-ranged thermometers.

  • This chromate has a fine cinnabar red, when pure; and, at a dull red heat, parts with a portion of its oxygen and its mercurial oxide.

  • When pure, it occurs in the gaseous state, but it combines with water like the hydrochloric or muriatic acid gas into a liquid acid.

  • The earths, when pure, are all white substances, not very heavy, and having scarcely any of the properties of the metals from which they are derived.

  • When pure, it is pearly white, insoluble in boiling water, but soluble in cold water and in vinegar.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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