How To Use Colourless In A Sentence

At atmospheric temperatures, ozone is a colorless gas with an odor similar to chlorine that can usually be detected at a level of about 0.01 parts per million.
The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet — brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck. Irish Books and Irish People
The key ingredient is the physical block zinc oxide, which has been micronized to create a colorless and lightweight lotion that feels natural and nongreasy.
His skin was, sure enough, pale and colorless.

Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.
With rather thin lips and colorless cheeks, he bore the distinguished face of an ailing man.
The mixture was stirred until the solutions turned colorless.
Based on his studies of a frog's tongue, Waller made important observations on diapedesis of leukocytes and reported that pus originated from ‘the colourless of spherical corpuscles from the capillaries.’
I like the unripe, slightly salty melon of Vanille Galante, the cold lily note, the almost non-existence of vanilla, the pure, calm water in which the ingredients serenely flow, the pastel colorlessness of it all. Vanille Galante by Hermes: Perfume Review
His cheeks were colorless and the sweat trickled from his brow.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas.
The supernatant was removed and stored and the pellets extracted with 100% acetone until they were colourless.
The drink which connects Black Russian, Screwdriver, Salty Dog and Bloody Mary is the colorless, savourless but strong vodka.
Her skin was incredibly pale, almost colorless, and her eyes were dull.
Hydrogen bromide is a colorless, corrosive, nonflammable gas with a sharp, unpleasant, pungent odor. Those computer models…
The calcite typically occurs as colorless to white discoidal crystals about 4 cm across; however, individual crystals to 30 cm are known.
I knew that when he said that my face went more colorless than it already is except for red across my cheeks.
From no point of view could the West look so lovely as from that lattice with the garland of jessamine round it, whose white stars and green leaves seemed now but grey pencil outlines - graceful in form, but colourless in tint - against the gold incarnadined of a summer evening - against the fire-tinged blue of an August sky, at eight o'clock p.m. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
In a gap between eastern peaks a colorless luminosity of the sky heralded moonrise. THE DISPOSSESSED
Carbon monoxide is colourless and odourless, and is produced when gas fails to burn completely.
A cold southerly wind rustled through the coolabah trees with a sweet hissing sound as a corella squawked into a colourless sky. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Quartz is colourless when pure but minute amounts of impurities or lattice imperfections give rise to varieties such as amethyst, cairngorm, rose quartz, and smoky quartz.
Clear and sharp as anything, this colourless white arc curved in a half circle before me. Times, Sunday Times
Known for his acerbic wit, sharp tongue, and occasional profanity, he stood out among the colorless bureaucrats who ruled Poland.
Everything was grey, wet and colourless as we stood by the rail watching the luggage being unloaded into the custom sheds.
It is odorless, colorless, tasteless, does not cause cancer, does not cause asthma. Victor Stenger: Global Warming and Religion
Some time later, standing by the side of the road, confused, he hitched a ride in a battered, colorless pickup. DEAD LINES
Did this man whose entire life has been spent as an office worker in dull and colorless businesses in rural Pennsylvania just suddenly have a Walter Mitty fantasy that happened to come true?
After 6.57 hours the colorless solution assumes the pale yellow-green color of chlorine, which indicates that the end point of the reaction has been reached.
The colourless, odourless liquid had mistakenly been left on a surface in a water bottle, according to police in Nicosia.
Because carbon monoxide is colorless, tasteless, odorless and nonirritating, it can overcome the exposed person without warning.
This colourless gel acts as a barrier between skin and foundation, making the base last longer and stay looking fresh.
Radon is a colorless, odorless, radioactive gas.
Later, this water is chlorinated and the output is colourless and odourless water with the purity label of 80 percent and later stored in the 1.5 MLD capacity storage tank.
Colorless gypsum and white pickeringite-halotrichite are the most common efflorescences found on shale.
Unlike many of the colourless characters in golf, there is much more to him than putting and winning tournaments.
Morphine is an amphoteric pentacyclic alkaloid that exists naturally in its levorotatory form as columnar colorless prisms.
A length of coloured or colourless plastic that has been cut in a corkscrew, spiral style meaning you can untwist it and wrap it around your cables keeping them together.
Worse, his singing continues to be monotonously loud and colorless, without a trace of grace, style, or musical shape.
Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
The country has had a coalition government of right and left parties for some time, which has increasingly been criticised for being too colourless and weak.
Mercury can evaporate and become a colorless, odorless vapor.
A unique Lebanese alcoholic creation is arak, a colorless, 100-percent-alcohol beverage flavored with anise.
Observe that it is colorless and either transparent or translucent, and when poured from one vessel to another is glairy and more or less adhesive. A Practical Physiology
Pale, almost colorless eyes looked out from under thin brows.
His face, which was colourless, deeply grooved, with sculpted lips, was severe and so shadowed it was like dusty ivory. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
The encounter smudged into the same colorlessness of every other colorless moment in the colorless flow of time on the bridge.
Ethene is a colorless gas that can be collected from natural gas and crude oil.
Some other liquids may be clear and colorless, but water is unique!
It is bleached on the side at which hydrogen gas is evolved in consequence of the liberated hydrogen withdrawing oxygen from the indigo, thereby forming a colorless deoxidized indigo. The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60
Ray was a man of middle age, height, and weight, his body constructed squarely and his hair close-cropped and colorless. GRACED LAND
Other minerals associated with the orpiment crystals are white to colorless barite crystals, lemon-yellow crystalline masses of sulfur, and minor realgar.
He (a stranger, a colorless administrator, neutral features, crewcut) is explaining something about the collections. The Times Literary Supplement
At intermission, I overheard a listener complain about an emotional colorlessness despite the piece's exciting surface. Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Jonathan Biss Beats the CRIS
Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud. Raziel
The authentic hologram is three-dimensional when rotated; the fakes are flat and colorless. More than $300,000 worth of counterfeit goods seized
Completely harmless to the skin, sunless tanners contain dihydroxyacetone, a colorless sugar that stains the skin.
Big black patches had settled under my eyes, and my lips and cheeks were horribly colorless.
Colorless crystals tend to be more tabular with modifications by the dipyramids and other forms.
Her entire report was delivered colorlessly, without any shade of emotion.
But that the inflammable substance [B] alone is the cause of this action, is plain from this, that, according to the 10th paragraph, not the least trace of sulphur remains over, since, according to my experiments this colourless ley contains only some vitriolated tartar. Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2
Phosphine, generated from aluminum phosphide and water, is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a fishy or garlic-like odor.
The tinny rattle of die aluminum top was no tinnier than my voice as I said, "Yes, sir," because I knew what little bottles of colorless fluid could reasonably be assumed to contain. The Space Merchants
The opaque-white decanters have gilt decoration applied to all the positions occupied by cutting on the colourless ones.
It is filled with a colorless tissue, the prothallium, and if mature, with care it is possible to see, even with a hand lens, two or more denser oval bodies (_ar. _), the egg cells of the archegonia, which here are very large. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
The water is clear, colourless, palatable, odourless, mildly mineralised, and contains hydro carbonates of sodium and small quantities of fluorine.
ARDEN: No. Actually, arsenic is colorless, and odorless, and tasteless, which is one good thing, if you ` re trying to poison someone. CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006
But half of what one saw was old work by established artists or colorless rehashes of 1980s images.
Visually, it's as exciting as a soap opera: flat and colourless.
Tabitha, who once could have been the toast of the town, was looking drawn and colorless.
The papule becomes pustular and ulcerates, producing an ulcer crater with colorless exudate.
Big black patches had settled under my eyes, and my lips and cheeks were horribly colorless.
This does not mean that his account is bland and colourless, but he is striving for scholarly objectivity and clarity as far as that is possible under the circumstances.
Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
Tabitha, who once could have been the toast of the town, was looking drawn and colorless.
Chemically, nitrous oxide is a colorless gas with a slightly sweet odor and no appreciable taste at normal ambient temperature and pressure.
She knew that without Davie her world would be colorless and dull.
Clear and sharp as anything, this colourless white arc curved in a half circle before me. Times, Sunday Times
But the odour of the colourless liquid was of bitter almonds, acrid and terrifying.
Moreover, she looked ghastly, looked frail and thin and colourless, had aged shockingly in these months of widowhood. HERE BE DRAGONS
It is constructed well enough but moves ponderously and colorlessly to its conclusion.
It is miscible with all commonly used cosmetic oils, is easily emulsified within aqueous formulations, is colorless and can be obtained ‘odor-free.’
The fogbow is much broader than a rainbow and the colours overlap so much that the result is almost colourless.
a colorless negative personality
Some other liquids may be clear and colorless, but water is unique!
When it leaves the still, tequila, like most spirits, is colorless.
To her credit, Mehta did a crack job depicting the occasionally colourless quality of life as an ageing singleton.
Furan, a colourless, volatile liquid used in some chemical manufacturing industries, causes cancer in animals in studies where animals are exposed to furan at high doses.
The rare gases are all colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
At this period it is colorless, and clear as water; its taste is slightly saccharine; its odor resembles that of whey; it reddens turnsole paper. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
The _normal cerebro-spinal fluid_ is clear and colourless, has a specific gravity of 1004-1008, and contains a trace of serum globulin and albumose, some chlorides, and a substance which reduces Fehling's solution. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
His family life was dreary; his married life colourless.
Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal.
When we dissect a leaf in its primal development, we find that its cells contain colorless globules, by botanists called chlorophyl or phyto-color; these undergo changes according as they are acted upon by light, oxygen, or other agents, producing green, yellow, red, and other tints. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
Colorless or pale reddish or yellowish-brown specimens with an earthy to moderately vitreous luster are most commonly observed.
Under a colorless sky stained with clouds, ten sylphs dance in a ring.
Clear and sharp as anything, this colourless white arc curved in a half circle before me. Times, Sunday Times
White (sometimes called decolorized, colorless or yodo blanco) iodine is what to use. Hints From Heloise
It is a colourless gas produced by the decay of organic matter such as raw sewage, oils, and salt water.
It was pale to medium green and associated with yellow pharmacosiderite and colorless to white gypsum.
Her skin hung off her face in limp saggy folds, colorless and gray, like wet cement.
The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet -- brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
A further proof of the acid nature of lanuginic acid is that wool may be dyed a fine magenta colour in a colourless solution of rosaniline base; for since rosaniline base is colourless, and it only forms a colour when combined with acids, the fibre has evidently acted the part of an acid in the combination. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
Everything is a uniform shade of grey, built out of old power station parts and conduits, populated by drab, colourless people.
Most intriguing, though, is that phalanx of stolid men in colourless suits forever behind and beside him.
His family life was dreary; his married life colourless.
The same compound occurs in all true vertebrata, and in the blood-fluid of the worm; in the crayfish a similar substance, haemocyanin, which when oxygenated is blue, and when deoxydized colourless, discharges the same function. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
Because carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless and disperses immediately into the air, few realize how much spills out of tailpipes and smokestacks.
I'm dropped through every sky I blow across, chuted, colorless and empty rolling off the greenest grassblades! Against the V
With rather thin lips and colorless cheeks, he bore the distinguished face of an ailing man.
This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
At the cliff Mitchell hung a towel on a sea-grape branch and scaled barefoot down the rocks to the colorless water.
Albert Campion, too, was tall and fair, but he was overthin and the careful veil of affable vacuity which had begun, like his large spectacles, as a protection and had become a second skin, had robbed him of good looks, whereas Morty’s thick light-brown hair had a wave in it and there was nothing bleak or colorless about his gray eyes. Cargo of Eagles
Life without restriction is, colorless, jaded, and uninspired.
At standard temperature and pressure it is a colorless, oily liquid with an unpleasant odor that turns brown due to slow oxidation by air.
The mineral separates provided a population of euhedral, prismatic crystals, which are either transparent and colourless or chocolate brown and translucent to opaque.
This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
What we saw that day was colourless, dull and unimaginative.
Afterwards we were treated to free samples of Helen's strudel and a tot of the local hooch, raki, a colourless liquid drunk like schnapps which is not for the faint-hearted.
In other higher plants, such as apples and pears, mainly colorless, nonfluorescent chlorophyll decomposition products are found. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
A colorless dibasic acid of slight solubility, found in human and animal urine. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
Pale, colorless hair poked out from between the bandages that covered his head, and his eyes were a bloodshot yellow.
I turned him round and his lips were blue, his eyes were colourless and he was lifeless.
It has been characterised as an era of colourless politicians, ill-judged initiatives in foreign policy, tentative reforms, parliamentary corruption, and economic weakness.
They were slim, pale and elegant, and she wore colourless or pearl nail varnish.
Throughout the years of maturation, the whisky, which coming out of the still is a colorless spirit, gradually becomes more complex.
It's so colourless, so dull, so hellish here, a very poor substitute for what I've lost.
Beryl looks frightened, her face drawn and colorless.
The spiderwort was a rich blue with its two large petals rounded, while the third one was tiny and colorless. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks
It looked like thin treacle and after one distillation yielded a colourless liquid which burned brilliantly. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
It has been characterised as an era of colourless politicians, ill-judged initiatives in foreign policy, tentative reforms, parliamentary corruption, and economic weakness.
She returned after a few moments with a large bottle of colourless liquid and placed it on the table. Times, Sunday Times
The light was harsh, the sky was flat and colourless and there were no clouds.
Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
The light was harsh, the sky was flat and colourless and there were no clouds.
Cyanide is a colourless, lethal, water-soluble poison occasionally used by mafia assassins.
Ethene is a colorless gas that can be collected from natural gas and crude oil.
The datholite, as in other localities, consists of groups of small colorless crystals. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor.
Ideally, your urine should be plentiful, very pale yellow or almost colourless, and odourless.
He may be thinking about adopting Washington, a city stultified by decades of colorless, inoffensive architecture. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
Furfural - also called furfuraldehyde, fural, 2-furaldehyde, pyromucic aldehyde, or 2-furancarboxaldehyde - is a viscous, colorless liquid with a freezing point of - 37.6°F and a boiling point of 323°F.
Not only is it colorlessly written but it ignores much fascinating material.
As mentioned in an earlier crit, the unusual presentation of a drab and colourless sixties really creates an atmosphere of sordidity and the authentic sets added to this (... don't you just HATE it when you mumble under your breath We Blog A Lot
I'm dropped through every sky I blow across, chuted, colorless and empty rolling off the greenest of grassblades! Safety First (Twenty Poems)
Under a colorless sky stained with clouds, ten sylphs dance in a ring.
The three girlfriends are chiefly excuses for Bobby's shilly-shallying, so we get glaring patches of clashing color revolving around a colorless blob.
So grows and has grown the Canadian boy in his colonial status, dissociated from the history of the world, cut off from the larger patriotism, colourless in his ideas. Education and Empire Unity
And I realised that the light which I'd thought was colourless was the most amazing pale blue – the colour of a billion tons of frozen ocean.
When Sean Hayes, from Will & Grace, made his Broadway debut in Promises, Promises playing a heterosexual man, the New York Times theater review included these lines: "his emotions often seem pale to the point of colorlessness ... his relationship with [his costar Kristin] Chenoweth feels more like that of a younger brother than a would-be lover and protector. Out Of Focus
The reason of this appears to be that a part of the manganese is first precipitated as hydrated sesquioxide, which is afterward oxidized to hydrated peroxide, for the upper portion of the liquid may sometimes be colored by chameleon, while the lower portion, which is in closer contact with the precipitate, is less colored or absolutely colorless. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
At PNB thus far, only a few interpreters of the key pantomime roles—Giselle's mother, Berthe; Albrecht's noble fiancée, Bathilde; and Giselle's hopeful suitor, Hilarion—rendered their mimologues with grace and inflection of gesture; the rest looked rote and colorless. From the Northwest Emerges a New 'Giselle'
I don't wish for much, and expect less, but as a journalist the most difficult chore in the year is to have to listen to countless colourless and uninformative speeches.
Phosphine, generated from aluminum phosphide and water, is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a fishy or garlic-like odor.
Colorless quartz crystals lining geodes have also been found at approximately 300 feet below the trail at the South Overlook locality.
The chameleon is sometimes green, sometimes blue, it is all colours by turn, and sometimes it is absolutely colourless.
The antheridia (Fig. 29, _E_) are hemispherical masses of closely set colorless cells, each of which develops a single spermatozoid which, like the tetraspores, is destitute of cilia, and is dependent upon the movement of the water to convey it to the neighborhood of the procarp. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
Sarin is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid that has no odor in its pure form.
Pale, almost colorless eyes looked out from under thin brows.
It is a colourless liquid with a burning taste.
A rather colourless pair of unprepossessing portraits. Times, Sunday Times
He labelled the stone as a ‘specimen of aventurine, from a lake three miles to the north-east of Ben Hope, Sutherland, containing, besides the red mica, red zircons, and either colourless garnets or diamonds’.
At normal room temperatures and pressures ammonia exists as a colorless gas that is lighter than air and has a characteristic pungent odor.
Abundant pale pinkish-reddish to purple to colorless fluorite occurs as granular to monocrystalline masses and rarely as small simple cubes.
It has worked for a colourless anaemic religion to which men pay lip homage.
The world seemed dull and colorless, and gray as Paula's despairing heart.
Electrochemical decolorisation is based on the principle that electrons in an electric current split textile dyes into smaller, colourless parts that are more readily biodegradable.
This tetratomic vapor condenses to liquid white phosphorus which freezes at 44.1°C to solid white phosphorus, a soft, waxy, colorless material.
This colourless light, and the shrill echoless sound of their steps on the tiled paving were so familiar to Rubashov that for a few seconds he played with the illusion that he was dreaming again. Autumn
When I placed the sandwich and salad before her, she looked up at me and gave a weak smile; I noticed how colorless her lips were and how gray her hair was becoming.
Her mind was still hazy and the heavy scent of the colorless liquid wasn't helping her head much.
It is slightly perfumed, clear and colourless and is available from chemists and the beauty counters of many shops. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
I knew that when he said that my face went more colorless than it already is except for red across my cheeks.
Indeed, cancer patients are often told to 'cope' with chemosensory problems by eating bland, cold and colourless food. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Her skin hung off her face in limp saggy folds, colorless and gray, like wet cement.
Coloration of EBN will fade upon soaking, but the water used for soaking should remain colourless.
The gel can be rubbed onto chrome surfaces where it forms a robust, long-lasting soft film that is virtually colourless.
Benzene is a colorless and highly flammable liquid hydrocarbon derived from petroleum.
Mercury can evaporate and become a colorless, odorless vapor.
He pushed back the hood and the early morning sun highlighted a craggy, chiseled face with almost colorless blue eyes.
The common glycols are colorless liquids with specific gravities greater than that of water.
His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
The distilled essential oil is colourless or tinged very pale yellow so it does not stain.
What we saw that day was colourless, dull and unimaginative.
Coquelin did some excellent French monologues — one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French. Mark Twain: A Biography
If the wine is examined according to the Falieres-Ritter method in presence of magenta, ether, when shaken up with the wine, previously rendered ammoniacal, remains colorless, while if archil or cudbear is present the ether is colored red. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
Colorless and transparent as well as white scalenohedra of a first generation are rarely overgrown by a second-generation rhombohedron and are twinned on { 0001 }.
The distinctive, colourless animal with white prickles, red eyes and pink feet is being treated with antibiotics at the Withington Hedgehog Hospital on Parsonage Road.
A tear slipped down Michael's colorless cheek, and he was grateful that Justin suddenly became fascinated with the view so he could wipe it away undetected.
Did this man whose entire life has been spent as an office worker in dull and colorless businesses in rural Pennsylvania just suddenly have a Walter Mitty fantasy that happened to come true?
She was combing out her blonde hair and pouring a colourless liquid from a bottle over her head.
Unlike many of the colourless characters in golf, there is much more to him than putting and winning tournaments.
The unshadowed road itself, so flat and colourless in the heat of day, loses substance even as we look.
At standard temperature and pressure, ethyne is a colorless gas with a pleasant smell.
The hypophase was removed with a Pasteur pipette and the aqueous phase re-extracted with chloroform until it was colourless.
Partridge was astonished to see the heavy man's colorless eyes enlarged with tears. THE SHIPPING NEWS
Although very beautiful, most Indian apophyllite is colorless.
It is a rather grey, colourless city, with few interesting sights or historical monuments.
Thorax very smooth and shining; the wings colourless and iridescent, their extreme base yellowish, the nervures and stigma brown, the tegulæ pale testaceous-yellow; the posterior tibiæ with a scopa of glittering white hairs, the tarsi ferruginous and with glittering hairs. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Both minerals form beautiful colorless crystals, though celestite is sometimes colored a faint blue. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
It looked like an angel, except for one thing: where the eyes of angels are blank and colorless like ice, the eyes of demons burn red, like ruby cabochons.
Radon condenses to a clear, colorless liquid at its boiling point and then freezes to form a yellow, then orangish red solid.
Breathing life into time periods that were painted colorlessly in history books was an art I wanted to recreate.
Andalusite porphyroblasts that overgrow the S 1 fabric were pseudomorphed by colourless mica.
Ideally, your urine should be plentiful, very pale yellow or almost colourless, and odourless.
Some time later, standing by the side of the road, confused, he hitched a ride in a battered, colorless pickup. DEAD LINES
Eventually Collingwood, unable to maintain his puritan self-denial any longer, aimed a mighty legside heave at Shakib Al Hasan and top-edged a catch to the substitute wicketkeeper, Junaid Siddique, to bring to a close a colourless 33 that contained a single boundary to help illuminate the proceedings. Ian Bell helps England stroll past Bangladesh at Trent Bridge
After esterifying reaction, high-vacuum rectification is used to extract the docosahexenoic acid as health-care nutritive product which is colourless and odourless.
But the liquid spreading rapidly on the pretty floral sheets wasn't the sweetish, colourless amniotic fluid.
The remaining 5-10% of zircon grains are rhombic, prismatic or long-prismatic euhedral crystals, and are always transparent and colourless to pale pink.
Her skin was incredibly pale, almost colorless, and her eyes were dull.
There are no vegetables, and in fact the plate is colourless beyond the eerie white of these Polish dumplings.
Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
Today was supposed to be just a normal colourless bludge day - neither high no low. Sierrazen Diary Entry
Everything is a uniform shade of grey, built out of old power station parts and conduits, populated by drab, colourless people.
His face, blank and colorless, was detailed only by the dark shadows beneath his eyes and the nest of light brown hair atop his head.
The world seemed dull and colorless, and gray as Paula's despairing heart.
Brazil is the main source of gem topaz (an aluminium silicate fluoride in which hydroxyl ions replace some of the fluorine ions) Topaz can be colourless, blue, and rarely pink as well as the more familiar yellow.
The cartridges contain dried extract of horseshoe crab blood cells (LAL / Limulus amebocyte lysate) and colorless dye. SpaceRef - Calendar of Events
a colorless description of the parade
I now have to share this island with the most wretched, witless, humourless, colourless, featureless, brainless, mindless people who have shared this planet since homo sapiens evolved.
His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team.
Because carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless and disperses immediately into the air, few realize how much spills out of tailpipes and smokestacks.
Some time later, standing by the side of the road, confused, he hitched a ride in a battered, colorless pickup. DEAD LINES
Seldom in world history can so much power have been wielded by such an apparently colourless character.
She had come to him, after all, an unfinished thing, a child bride, almost colorless except for her red bindi and her hennaed hands.
The Centers for Disease Control defines chloroform as a “colorless liquid with a pleasant, nonirritating odor” that was “used as an inhaled anesthetic during surgery.” Chloroform and Caylee
Carbon monoxide is colourless and odourless, and is produced when gas fails to burn completely.
I am afraid the climax is still suffering from Vague Psychic Battle Syndrome, and the whole thing feels kind of flaccid and colorless right now, but it's written and that's what matters. Best. holiday. icon. evar.
At atmospheric temperatures, ozone is a colorless gas with an odor similar to chlorine that can usually be detected at a level of about 0.01 parts per million.
It occurred as trapezohedral milky-white microcrystals in small vugs and as clear, colorless, glassy masses up to 1 cm in size.
The sporangia, or more exactly the conidia, are composed of unilocular vesicles, perfectly colorless and transparent, which generally rise from one or both sides of the filaments of the mycelium, beginning as from little buds or eyes; very often several (two to three) sporangia occur placed one upon the other, at least on one side of the mycelium. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
It looked very wrong amidst the bright blue river and lush green banks, a sudden shock of colorlessness. Every little thing in the world
Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas that can poison you if you breathe too much of it.
a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced
CO is odorless and colorless, and it can kill you and your family in minutes. Your risk of injury rises after the hurricane
The leaves, depart from the tree, are colorless without inanimation.
The rare gases are all colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
Depression is not beautiful and romantic; it's dismal and colourless and sad and boring.
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that is odourless, colourless, tasteless and non-irritating.
Beyond that, her soprano is strangely colorless, and her projection of the text flat and matter-of-fact.
Meanwhile, the White House press corps is left with someone who is hard to caricature as anything other than colorless. The oversimplified coverage of 'tough-talking' Rahm Emanuel
Official meeting pronouncements offer little more than colorless boilerplate.
It occurred in weathered material with colorless transparent cassiterite, which is thought to have been derived from the oxidation of stannite.
The resulting kernel pigmentation phenotype consists of colorless pericarp with red sectors.
Pure halite is colorless, though it is often colored by impurities. Halite
Mendelizing characters which assume multiple allelomorphic conditions. 2 Pearson has steadfastly refused to admit that albinism in man is a Mendelizing character, because it may assume various forms ranging from colorless to quite heavily pigmented conditions (blondes). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Kurkdjian's sumptuous touch shows through the apparent purity of the fragrance, which makes its transparency warm and its colorlessness interesting. Kenzo Eau de Fleur Magnolia: Perfume Review
His face was colourless -- not exactly white, thought Lise, but devoid of definable colour tones. IN LOVE AND WAR
Bromthymol blue changes from yellow at pH 4 to blue around pH 7, and phenolphthalein changes from colorless at pH 7 to pink at pH 9.
Our citric acid is a natural, odourless and colourless crystalline substance with a pleasantly refreshing acidulous taste.
His face was white and colorless.
A couple of seasons of too much talk, too many colorless characters, and not enough action have left the show in limbo.
The cutter must orient the rough carefully, taking iolite's trichroism of blue, gray and near colorless into account.
When freshly collected, laumontite is colorless and quite hard; however, once dry, it crumbles and becomes friable and white.
Across the road from the embankment electric lights shone on melons and other fruit in stalls: a refreshing night scene, after the glare and colorlessness of the day. Among the Believers
Cyanide is a colourless, lethal, water-soluble poison occasionally used by mafia assassins.
She knew that without Davie her world would be colorless and dull.
One of the latter divides next into an upper and a lower cell, the former growing out into a long, colorless appendage known as a trichogyne (Fig. 29, _D_, _tr. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
She did as she was told and trotted off into the kitchen and she looked around for a glass bottle containing a colorless liquid.
Both were a deep green color that caused the grey of his eyes to appear pale and colorless in comparison.
Very occasionally they are colourless, but they usually range from pale green, through straw, pale copper, and deep gold to amber.
The seeds contain abundantly a demulcent oil, whilst the petals furnish a glucoside which is colourless unless treated with alkalies, when it becomes of a golden yellow. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
The distilled essential oil is colourless or tinged very pale yellow so it does not stain.
Methane is a nonpoisonous, tasteless, odorless and colorless gas. It is also known as marsh gas (CH4) and, when mixed with air, it forms fire-damp.
His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
Pale, colorless hair poked out from between the bandages that covered his head, and his eyes were a bloodshot yellow.
Both were a deep green color that caused the grey of his eyes to appear pale and colorless in comparison.
Worse, his singing continues to be monotonously loud and colorless, without a trace of grace, style, or musical shape.
a colorless person quite indistinguishable from the colorless mass of humanity
Colorless botryoidal smithsonite specimens have been collected at the Tui mine, New Zealand.
They may scarcely realize that the ruby and the sapphire are the same mineral, and that this mineral also occurs, and is used in jewelry, absolutely colorless, when it is known as lux sapphire, green as the so-called Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
I turned him round and his lips were blue, his eyes were colourless and he was lifeless.
She pulled a nightdress and jumper from the piles of colourless garments and walked to the bathroom.
Powdered GHB is colorless and odorless but has a salty taste that is often masked by mixing it in fruit punches.
The doctor put a small vial with a colorless liquid onto an injector and placed the nozzle against her upper arm.
_Chloroazoimide_, Cl·N_3, the chloride corresponding to azoimide, was obtained by F. Raschig (_Ber. _, 1908, 41, p. 4194) as a highly explosive colourless gas on acidifying a mixture of sodium azide and hypochlorite with acetic or boric acid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
Afghanite occurs as small, typically colorless transparent crystals associated with a wide variety of feldspathoids in volcanic ejecta collected in the general Mount Vesuvius area, Italy.
A plagioclase feldspar, albite probably, occurs as parallel growths of transparent colorless to yellowish crystals.
Coconut oil is a colorless to pale brownish yellow oil with a melting point starting at 26 § C.
It is a colourless gas produced by the decay of organic matter such as raw sewage, oils, and salt water.
They have a talented squad, but their performances are so often colourless and mediocre.
He had tiny, tiny little eyes, and pale colorless and limp hair, that was badly in need of a cutting.
PCBs are colorless and odorless chemicals that were widely used in electrical equipment such as transformers and capacitors before 1977.
Seldom in world history can so much power have been wielded by such an apparently colourless character.
Thick, curling eyelashes shaded her lowered eyes, standing against dark yet colorless cheeks.
His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
He shrewdly defends her prose against the charge of dryness, calling it "as colorless, as odorless, as tasteless, and as intoxicating as vodka."
Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
Sarin is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid that has no odor in its pure form.
The voice is a little colourless in its lower register, compensated by a bright tone in the middle of his voice, and meticulous intonation.
Radon is a colorless, odorless, radioactive gas.
The Tower of Babylon rose through the veil of transplanted jungle foliage and piped-in orchid scent to scrape a desert sky burned almost colorless by the Nevada sun. Splendid isolation, i don't need no-one
This does not mean that his account is bland and colourless, but he is striving for scholarly objectivity and clarity as far as that is possible under the circumstances.
Beyond that, her soprano is strangely colorless, and her projection of the text flat and matter-of-fact.
He was in a deeply emotional state, for all the colorlessness of his voice. GALILEE
It is a colourless liquid with a burning taste.
Depression is not beautiful and romantic; it's dismal and colourless and sad and boring.
As usual, he wore his long, straight colourless hair down, and tied a blue designed headband around his head.
I have visions of turning into a spectral gray, a mass of colorlessness, a vanguard of lost youth, haunted and hovering over the living with warnings of doing all that you can now. Countdown
In the case of the "pure-for-analysis" sulphide, which is the recrystallized variety, the salt will be pure white and will form a quite colorless and clear solution in water. Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements
I bought a few unusual oilbars from traditional paint-makers for them to use: an iridescent, pearlescent color, silver, gold and colorless blenders.
Glycerin is a thick sweet colorless liquid.
Mademoiselle de La Bastie was inclined to coquet with your Melchior, and was only too ready to become your rival, though her arms are thin, and she has no more bust than most girls; moreover, her hair is as dead and colorless as that of Modeste Mignon
They are inert, high-purity powders with no caloric value and are virtually colorless, odorless and tasteless in food formulations.
Familiar in its colourless form, it also occurs in a wide range of strong colours including blue, green, pink, and yellow.
This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
Radon condenses to a clear, colorless liquid at its boiling point and then freezes to form a yellow, then orangish red solid.
Exposure to the gas odourless and colourless, is potentially fatal.
Carbon monoxide is undetectable by the human senses: it is colourless, odourless, and tasteless.
Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
Since then the colourless elixir has been pouring out of new distilleries, with more than 49 opening last year alone. Times, Sunday Times
His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team.
Carbon monoxide injuries and deaths occur when levels of the tasteless, odorless and colorless gas build up in poorly ventilated spaces where a carbon-based fuel is burned.
It has worked for a colourless anaemic religion to which men pay lip homage.
But the odour of the colourless liquid was of bitter almonds, acrid and terrifying.
Time and again, the colourless, clear sky will marshal thunderheads, building them into great puffy dark cotton wool, filling the horizon from end to end.
Those who were not blinded could not see the gas because it is colourless. Times, Sunday Times
But while he does the long dark tunnel of sulky adolescence very well, he is a less-than-ardent lover and vocally colourless.
Pale moss, almost colourless, carpets the forest floor. Times, Sunday Times
Acetone is a colourless, mobile liquid of sp.gr. .792 at 20° C., it boils at 56. 5° C., has a peculiar, pleasant, ethereal odour, and is mixible with water, alcohol, and ether in all proportions. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
It's so colourless, so dull, so hellish here, a very poor substitute for what I've lost.
The colourless, odourless liquid had mistakenly been left on a surface in a water bottle, according to police in Nicosia.
Most intriguing, though, is that phalanx of stolid men in colourless suits forever behind and beside Bush.
The voice is a little colourless in its lower register, compensated by a bright tone in the middle of his voice, and meticulous intonation.
Behind the colourless doors of these homes were people who still live in the misery of abject poverty.
Mr Rochester's whole face was like colourless marble.
On the one hand, her calm quietness is admired, but others carp that she is colourless and dull. The Sun
Visually, it's as exciting as a soap opera: flat and colourless.
Colourless at first, it rapidly changes to a "carpet of tiny, shining, rose-coloured grains". Glitter Rose by Marianne de Pierres
The groundmass consists mainly of bytownite with large grains of diopside and of colourless olivine, and small octahedrons of magnetite.
They were slim, pale and elegant, and she wore colourless or pearl nail varnish.
The strongman himself is often a colourless figure. Times, Sunday Times
Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
They have a talented squad, but their performances are so often colourless and mediocre.
If you look closely, you can see the impressions left by the artist's fingers as they were dragged through the red clay that was part of the foundation for the liquid, colourless resin.
A filamentous protonema is first developed, some of the branches of which are exposed to the light and contain abundant chlorophyll, while others penetrate the substratum as brown or colourless rhizoids. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Bewilderment and helplessness and dismay mingled strangely, played out in a clashing kaleidoscope, vivid against the colourlessness of everything else.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, poisonous gas.
The hypophase was removed with a Pasteur pipette and the aqueous phase re-extracted with chloroform until it was colourless.
The concerns centre on the various types of fuel carried, such as hydrazine, a toxic colourless liquid with an ammonia-like odour, which can burn the skin.
Firefighters had to don breathing apparatus when they went into the terraced house, where they finally found a fridge was leaking ammonia, a colourless gas with a pungent smell, which is also toxic, corrosive and explosive in air.
What might be called the waxen period had set in, and the high colourless features seemed to be modelled in that soft, semi-transparent material. The Witch of Prague
Jainism, which we describe as atheistic, and the colourless respectable religion of educated Chinese, become in their outward manifestations unblushingly polytheistic. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
This drink is a colourless liquid.
In the freezing depth of the Polish winter, the town of Oswiecim is a haunted place: colourless, dirty, and economically destitute.
The country has had a coalition government of right and left parties for some time, which has increasingly been criticised for being too colourless and weak.
Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colours of the rainbow in colourless ice.
Exposure to the gas odourless and colourless, is potentially fatal.
He found, when the cruor is deprived of its iron, that it becomes colourless.
The odourless , colourless gas is deadly if there is high or prolonged exposure.

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