How To Use Specific gravity In A Sentence
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This fact confirms the connection which we find, notwithstanding the difference of fracture and of specific gravity between the saussurite and the siliceous basis of the porphyrschiefer, which is the phonolite
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
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Aileron: the scale covering the base of primaries in some insects; see tegulae in Diptera = alula and squama, q.v. Air-sacs or vesicles: pouch-like expansions of tracheal tubes in heavy insects, capable of inflation and supposed to lessen specific gravity.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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When the bulk specific gravity of coarse aggregate and the apparent specific gravity of fine aggregate are used to compute VMA value, the VMA value is greater than the VMA value by American method.
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Sanchez 'Chesapeake Specialty Products has 4,000 tons of HDM, a granulated iron product with specific gravity of 6.0, that he is willing to deliver to the Deepwater Horizon leak site if he gets approval.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Businessman fighting to get alternate solution to BP before Top Kill tomorrow
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And as in some real rubies there are found slight hollows corresponding or analogous to the bubbles found in melted glass, it becomes a matter of great difficulty to distinguish the real from the imitation by such tests as hardness, specific gravity, dichroism, and the like, so that in such a case, short of risking the ruin of the stone, ordinary persons are unable to apply any convincing tests.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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Specific gravity was measured by a harmonic oscillation method on the automated workstation.
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Besides these, its specific gravity is 2.8, hardness, 8.5; from calcspar it cannot be distinguished except by chemical analysis, as the two species blend almost completely with every intermediate stage of composition into either calc spar, or, what occurs in this locality, aragonite, similar in composition to it, or dolomite.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
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Granted the weight and the specific gravity of a body, we can calculate its volume.
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One of the key measurements in all fermentation is the relative measurement of the initial specific gravity in relation to the final specific gravity, as measured with a hydrometer.
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The calculation may be related to Edward Hussey Delaval's work on this subject, read at the Royal Society of London in January 1765 and published as a pamphlet later that year. 6 In that paper, Delaval related color to density, as specific gravity, suggesting that greater density should reflect the more refrangible rays. reference
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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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.
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Layered intrusions commonly occur with mafic intrusions where the minerals (such as olivine, pyroxene, chromite, magnetite and plagioclase) have a wider range of specific gravity, and the magma viscosity was low.
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Methods include visual examination, study of the absorption spectrum, and measurement of refractive indices, specific gravity, and thermal conductivities.
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Baseline assessments of height, weight, blood pressure, urinary specific gravity, and ketonuria were obtained.
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The removal of safrol, either intentionally or by accident, owing to cooling of the oil and consequent deposition of the safrol, is readily detected by the reduction of the specific gravity below 1.06.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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My hydrometer told me that I had specific gravity right around 1.100, which promises a potential alcohol of 13 percent in the wash.
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All minerals posses specific physical properties such as color, luster, crystal form, cleavage, fracture, hardness, and specific gravity.
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The specific gravity of the alloy is greater than that of the two metals in an uncombined state.
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magnesium is a light metal--having a specific gravity of 1.74 at 20 degrees C
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A minor, but important constituent of many sandstones are the heavy minerals, with a specific gravity in excess of 2.9.
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Water with sugar mixed in is denser than water without sugar, and the hydrometer measures the specific gravity and relates it to a potential alcohol content.
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The utility model discloses a built-in electrothermal tray type specific gravity vacuum degassing tank, belonging to the technology field of vacuum oil purifier.
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Haulm destruction is carried out to stop the specific gravity from getting too high.
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Serpentine is softer than nephrite, has a lower specific gravity, and is more fragile.
JADE ISLAND
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The properties of the oils vary with their source, and also with the parts of the plant distilled, distillation of the stalks as well as the leaves tending to reduce the specific gravity and borneol content, and increase the proportion of the lævo-rotatory constituent (lævo-pinene).
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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The surface level of the water will mark the specific gravity level and the potential alcohol level, both labeled on the hydrometer.
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The specific gravity of the entire Earth is 5.5 on the scale of water as one, whereas the density of the stratified rocks averages only 2.75; that is, the stratified rocks have but one half the density of the Earth as a whole.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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We use the Squibb pyknometer [28] and thereby can determine the specific gravity of the alcohol to the fifth or sixth decimal place with a high degree of accuracy.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man
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[Footnote *: These first four metals have commonly been distinguished by the appellation of perfect or noble metals, on account of their possessing the characteristic properties of ductility, malleability, inalterability, and great specific gravity, in an eminent degree.] [Footnote †: Mercury, in its liquid state, cannot, of course, be called a malleable metal.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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It is defined by a loss of function of about 75 percent of the filtration system of the kidney and characterized by azotemia and low specific gravity of the urine.
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The lactometer is a little instrument used to estimate the specific gravity of milk.
The Mother and Her Child
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To this short and apparently insignificant weapon a strong rope is secured, about twenty feet in length, at the extremity of which is a buoy or float, as large as a child's head, formed of an extremely light wood called ambatch (Aanemone mirabilis) that is of about half the specific gravity of cork.
In the Heart of Africa
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Properties: White powder with Specific Gravity of 7.10, easily absorb moisture(Sentence dictionary), without flammability and causticity.
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The highest specific gravity, upon which in general depends value as fuel, is attained by the bluewood of Texas _ (Condalia obovata_).
Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
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The specific gravity of milk is determined by means of the lactometer, an instrument which sinks to a definite point in pure milk.
Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value
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Barium carbonate, BaCO_3, occurs rather widely distributed as witherite (_q. v._), and may be prepared by the addition of barium chloride to a hot solution of ammonium carbonate, when it is precipitated as a dense white powder of specific gravity 4.3; almost insoluble in water.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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The quizmaster, however, was least amused as degree coffee got its name after the lactometer used to measure the milk specific gravity (to detect adulteration).
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This double nitrate has a specific gravity of 4.7963, therefore such a stone as zircon, which is the heaviest known, will float in it.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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The lactometer measures the specific gravity of milk.
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Crystals are probably at least partially metamict and can be recognized by their high specific gravity, pitchy luster, and black color.
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If the mass concentration of the colloid is known, it is easy to obtain the mass of the particles, and from this - assuming, for example, a spherical shape and normal specific gravity - the size can be calculated.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 - Presentation Speech
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The specific gravity is measured by Archimedes' principle.
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After from five to twenty minutes, the specific gravity of the arcella is so much lessened that it is lifted by the water with its pseudopodia, and brought up against the upper surface of the water-drop, on which it is able to travel.
Unconscious Memory
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While tasting the grapes is a fine way to know when to harvest them, also invest in a hydrometer - which measures the specific gravity of liquids - available at winemaking supply shops.
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Taken, then, a liquid which is heavy -- the most convenient is methylene iodide, whose specific gravity is 3.3 -- a fragment of zircon will sink in this, and a fragment of tourmaline will float, but a fragment of the mineral augite, whose specific gravity is also 3.3, will remain exactly suspended.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
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These high precision densimeters provides a highly accurate calculation of specific gravity of almost any object of any shape.
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* This fact confirms the connection which we find, notwithstanding the difference of fracture and of specific gravity between the saussurite and the siliceous basis of the porphyrschiefer, which is the phonolite (klingstein).
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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But this load of sediments, transferred from the dry land to the ocean margins and shallow seas, disturbed the balance of weight (isostasy) which normally keeps the continental platforms above the level of the ocean basins (which as shown by gravity measurement are underlain by materials of higher specific gravity than the continents).
Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
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In urine with a very high specific gravity the red cells become crenated which may appear as granules or spikes in the cell.
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The specific gravity of pure thoria is 10.2207 to 10.2198.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
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In the 1770s, after considerable debate about the most efficient and reliable ways of determining the specific gravity of liquors, the hydrometer was considered better than the ordinary balance.
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Some of what I was there to buy cleaning agents, a spigot were innocent enough, but among the goods I finally laid on his table were five more packets of champagne yeast and a proofing hydrometer, which instead of measuring the specific gravity of sugar in water, measures the density of alcohol and gives you a percentage.
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It crystallizes in octahedra, having a specific gravity of 3.2, and melts at 597° C. (T. Carnelley).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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It took me a while to go and they measured the specific gravity and said it was too dilute.
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