precipitating

How To Use precipitating In A Sentence

• The danger of precipitating mania is reported to be greatest with tricyclic agents.
• The amount of this colorific matter may be estimated quantitatively by noting the quantity of the chloride of lime solution required to destroy this blood-red color in different cases: or the same result may be obtained by macerating for a short period in milk of lime -- filtering -- precipitating the filtered liquor by acetic or muriatic acid -- collecting this precipitate on a weighed filter -- drying at ordinary temperatures and again weighing. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
• The use of subacetate of lead should, in all cases, be followed by the addition of "alumina cream" (aluminic hydrate suspended in water) [2] in about double the volume of the subacetate solution used, for the purpose of completing the clarification, precipitating excess of lead, and facilitating filtration. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
• The sneak attack of Saakashvili and NATO on Ossetia may well be the precipitating event for eventual enosis or federation with Russia. Coming From Georgia, Living in Russia « Antiwar.com Blog
• Another suggested cause is calcium-induced neuronal death which could implicate disruption of cytoskeletal microtubules inside neurons as the precipitating factor. Deepak Chopra: End-of-Life Brain Activity - A Sign of the Soul?
• The criminal would mount the scaffold and stand upon this trapdoor, which would then open, precipitating the person into a fall of some feet.
• Moreover, several studies reported that precipitating withdrawal in opiate-dependent animals by an injection of the opiate antagonist, naloxone, increases morphine self-administration.
• Nine years later, it was forced to retreat, precipitating the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin. Little Women
• A conspiratorial hush proceeds to cosh the masses, precipitating a muffled ripple of applause as the Mayor and his entourage take to the stand.