Compressed Sentence Examples

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  • Compressed air is now driven down the 1-in.

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  • Her eyes were dry and glistening, her lips compressed, her cheeks sunken.

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  • Mayer, a physician at Heilbronn, published an attempt to determine the mechanical equivalent of heat from the heat produced when air is compressed.

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  • For ordinary combustions compressed oxygen is used, so that the combustible substance burns almost instantaneously, the action being induced by means of some electrical device which can be controlled from without the calorimeter.

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  • The air inside is compressed in consequence and during an upstroke of the piston this air tends to regain its original volume and so expels the water, thus bringing about a continuous supply.

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  • Pelagic Taenioglossa with foot large and laterally compressed to form a fin.

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  • Abel, the cotton is ground into a pulp, a process which greatly facilitates the complete removal of acids, &c. This pulp is finally drained, and is then either compressed,while still moist, into slabs or blocks when required for blasting purposes, or it is dried when required for the manufacture of propellants.

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  • All these and many subsequent attempts to utilize it, either loose or mechanically compressed in any way, signally failed.

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  • Compressed dry guncotton is easily detonated by an initiative detonator such as mercuric fulminate.

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  • Guncotton containing more than 15% of water is uninflammable, may be compressed or worked without danger and is much more difficult to detonate by a fulminate.

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  • A charge of compressed wet guncotton may be exploded, even under water, by the detonation of a small primer of the dry and waterproofed material, which in turn can be started by a small fulminate detonator.

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  • The explosive wave from the dry guncotton primer is in fact better responded to by the wet compressed material than the dry, and its detonation is somewhat sharper than that of the dry.

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  • Trolley haulage lacks the flexibility of steam or compressed air haulage, and is limited to main lines because the wires must be strung throughout the length of the line.

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  • Electric and compressed air locomotives are durable, easily operated, and can be built to run under the low roofs of thin veins.

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  • For heavy gradients rope haulage has no rival, though for moderate grades it is often advantageously replaced by electric and compressed air haulage.

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  • Mine pumps of ordinary forms may be operated by compressed air, and air-lift pumps have been successfully employed.

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  • A mass of glass in a viscous state can be rolled with an iron roller like dough; can be rendered hollow by the pressure of the human breath or by compressed air; can be forced by air pressure, or by a mechanically driven plunger, to take the shape and impression of a mould; and can be almost indefinitely extended as solid rod or as hollow tube.

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  • In the " sandblast " process the surface of the glass is exposed to a stream of sharp sand driven by compressed air.

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  • The blower places the glass in the mould, closes the mould by pressing a lever with his foot, and either blows down the blowing iron or attaches it to a tube connected with a supply of compressed air.

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  • A bottle-making machine combines the process of pressing with a plunger with that of blowing by compressed air.

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  • The neck of the bottle is first formed by the plunger, and the body is subsequently blown by compressed air admitted through the plunger.

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  • Compressed air admitted through the plunger forces the molten glass to take the form of the bottle mould and completes the bottle.

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  • The moulds are opened and closed by cams actuated by compressed air.

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  • As soon as a blowing iron is in connexion with an air jet, the sections of the mould close upon the molten glass, and the compressed air forces the glass to take the form of the mould.

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  • Compressed air or steam is also used for fashioning very large vessels, baths, dishes and reservoirs by the " Sievert " process.

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  • The plate with the glass attached to it is inverted, and compressed air or steam is introduced through openings in the plate.

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  • The technical difference between pressed and moulded glass is that moulded glass-ware has taken its form from a mould under the pressure of a workman's breath, or of compressed air, whereas pressed glass-ware has taken its form from a mould under the pressure of a plunger.

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  • These small furnaces are usually heated by an oil spray under the pressure of steam or compressed air.

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  • To eliminate this source of uncertainty these metals were employed as compressed powders.

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  • After cooling, the casing is lifted out of the drum by a crane, assisted by compressed air, and is then conveyed by a travelling crane to a vertical centrifugal, inside of which it is made fast.

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  • In the males the horns are usually compressed and triangular, with transverse ridges or knobs, and either curving backwards or spiral.

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  • The first difficulty was to make it sufficiently light in relation to the power its machinery could develop; and several machines were built in which trials were made of steam, and of compressed air and carbonic acid gas as motive agents.

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  • Chersydrus ranges from Madras to New Guinea; the body and tail are laterally compressed and form a ventral fold which is covered with tiny scales like the rest of the body.

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  • Cerberus rhynchops; Hypsirhina plumbea, Homalopsis; Hipistes hydrinus of Siam has a compressed body, and much resembles the Hydrophinae in general appearance and its partly marine life.

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  • The scales are very small, often very much reduced, and there are frequently no enlarged ventrals on the compressed belly, but Platurus has broad ventrals.

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  • Gold can be readily welded cold; the finely divided metal, in the state in which it is precipitated from solution, may be compressed between dies into disks or medals.

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  • On the other hand, the progressive reduction of mining and metallurgical costs effected by improved transportation and machinery, and the use of high explosives, compressed air, electric-power transmission, &c., resulted in California (as elsewhere) in a notable revival of deep mining.

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  • The majority have a compressed well-proportioned body, which in the marine species is of a more elongate form, leading to the allied group of flute-mouths (Fistulariidae), which are, in fact, gigantic marine sticklebacks.

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  • They differ from all the forms already noticed in being shrubby and epiphytal in habit, and in having the branches compressed and dilated so as to resemble thick fleshy leaves, with a strong median axis and rounded woody base.

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  • They are fleshy shrubs, with rounded, woody stems, and numerous succulent branches, composed in most of the species of separate joints or parts, which are much compressed, often elliptic or suborbicular, dotted over in spiral lines with small, fleshy, caducous leaves, in the axils of which are placed the areoles or tufts of barbed or hooked spines of two forms. The flowers are mostly yellow or reddish-yellow, and are succeeded by pear-shaped or egg-shaped fruits, having a broad scar at the top, furnished on their soft, fleshy rind with tufts of small spines.

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  • The preparation of the pure metal was successfully effected by Werner von Bolton in 1905, who fused the compressed product obtained in the Berzelius process in the electric furnace, air being excluded.

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  • The second principal method of sinking through water-bearing ground is by compressed air.

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  • The pumps, placed close to the point where the water accumulates, may be worked by an engine on the surface by means of heavy reciprocating rods which pass down the shaft, or by underground motors driven by steam, compressed air or electricity.

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  • The substitution of machinery for hand labour in cutting coal has long been a favourite problem with inventors, the earliest plan being that of Michael Meinzies, in 1761, who proposed to work a heavy pick underground by power transmitted from an engine at the surface, through the agencies of spear-rods and chains passing over pulleys; but none of the methods suggested proved to be practically successful until the general introduction of compressed air into mines furnished a convenient motive power, susceptible of being carried to considerable distances without any great loss of pressure.

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  • These machines, which are driven by compressed air, are very handy in use, as the height and direction of the cut may be readily varied; but the work is rather severe to the driver on account of the recoil shock of the piston, and an assistant is necessary to clear out the small coal from the cut, which limits the rate of cutting.

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  • Where the load has to be hauled up a rising gradient, underground engines, driven by steam or compressed air or electric motors, are used.

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  • In some cases steam generated in boilers at the surface is carried in pipes to the engines below, but there is less loss of power when compressed air is sent down in the same way.

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  • In mines that are worked from the outcrop by adits or day levels traction by locomotives driven by steam, compressed air or electricity is used to some extent.

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  • The use of small auxiliary blowing ventilators underground, for carrying air into workings away from the main circuits, which was largely advocated at one time, has lost its popularity, but a useful substitute has been found in the induced draught produced by jets of compressed air or high-pressure water blowing into ejectors.

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  • This may be done by water-carts or hose and jet, but preferably by finely divided water and compressed air distributed from a network of pipes carried through the workings.

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  • The newer forms are based upon the principle, first enunciated by Professor Theodor Schwann in 1854, of carrying compressed oxygen instead of air, and returning the products of respiration through a regenerator containing absorptive media for carbonic acid and water, the purified current being returned to the mouth with an addition of fresh oxygen.

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  • Continuing these experiments, they found that in acetylene gas under ordinary pressures the decomposition brought about in one portion of the gas, either by heat or the firing in it of a small detonator, did not spread far beyond the point at which the decomposition started, while if the acetylene was compressed to a pressure of more than 30 lb on the square inch, the decomposition travelled throughout the mass and became in reality detonation.

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  • The chief trouble was that acetone expands a small percentage of its own volume while it is absorbing acetylene; therefore it is impossible to fill a cylinder with acetone and then force in acetylene, and still more impracticable only partly to fill the cylinder with acetone, as in that case the space above the liquid would be filled with acetylene under high pressure, and would have all the disadvantages of a cylinder containing compressed acetylene only.

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  • Fichte's system cannot be compressed with intelligibility.

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  • In this case the compressed air process was used.

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  • Foot compressed and generally byssiferous.

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  • Whilst alcohol is applied in motor engines in a similar manner to petrol, its vapour mixed with a proper proportion of air being drawn into the cylinder where it is compressed and ignited, it cannot be used with maximum efficiency by itself in engines such as are fitted to modern motors because it requires a higher degree of compression than petrol engines are usually designed to stand, and also because, unless special arrangements are made, a motor engine will not start readily from the cold with alcohol alone.

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  • Occasionally filtration into a vacuum is practised, but more often, as in filterpresses, the liquid is forced under pressure, either hydrostatic or obtained from a force-pump or compressed air, into a series of chambers partitioned off by cloth, which arrests the solids, but permits the passage of the liquid portions.

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  • The head is large and laterally compressed with a blunt snout, nearly terminal nostrils and relatively small eyes.

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  • The hindquarters are comparatively large and heavy, while the tail is long, deep and more or less laterally compressed, evidently adapted for swimming.

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  • A direct proof of its material nature was given by Galileo, who weighed a copper ball containing compressed air.

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  • Pits are present in the forehead of the skull, and the horns are ringed for part of their length, with a compressed base; their form being often lyrate,.

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  • At J the displacement is forward, but since the curve at Q is parallel to the axis the displacement is approximately the same for all the points close to J, and the air is neither extended nor compressed, but merely displaced bodily a distance represented by JQ.

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  • It consists of a cylindrical chest of brass, the base of which is pierced at its centre with an opening in which is fixed a brass tube projecting outwards, and Siren of intended for supplying the cavity of the cylinder with Cagniard de compressed air or other gas, or even liquid.

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  • When arches form the superstructure, the abutment must be so designed as to transmit the resultant thrust to the foundation in a safe direction, and so distributed that no part may be unduly compressed.

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  • The frame as a whole may be subject to a bending moment, but each member is simply extended or compressed so that the total stress on a given member is the same at all its cross sections, while the intensity of stress is uniform for all the parts of any one cross section.

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  • Any error of this kind will merely affect the form of the frame; if, however, another member be introduced between A and D, then if BC be shortened AD will be strained so as to extend it, and the four other members will be compressed; if G CB is lengthened AD will thereby be compressed, and the four other members extended; if the workman does not make CB and AD of exactly the right length they and all the members will be permanently strained.

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  • The eyes are on the right side, and the teeth in the jaws compressed and truncate.

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  • They are small insects, having straight antennae, and a compressed, usually very short abdomen with the second or second and third segments greatly developed, and the rest imbricated, and concealing the partially coiled ovipositor.

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  • Slates belong mostly to the older geological systems, being commonest in Pre-Cambrian, Cambrian and Silurian districts, though they may be found of Carboniferous or even of Tertiary age, where mountain-building processes have folded and compressed these more recent formations.

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  • This mica has developed in the rock as it was folded and compressed.

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  • Carbon powder compressed into a rod was slowly passed through a tube in which it was subjected to the action of one or more electric arcs.

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  • In this suborder the head is more or less distinct, the rest of the body being in general laterally compressed and covered by a bivalved test.

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  • Acrodont, Old World lizards, with laterally compressed body, prehensile tail and well developed limbs with the digits arranged in opposing, grasping bundles of two and three respectively.

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  • The family, comprising some 200 species, with about 30 genera, shows great diversity of form; the terrestrial members are mostly flatbodied, the arboreal more laterally compressed and often with a very long tail.

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  • As a result of this change of form the gastric cavity or coelenteron becomes of compressed lenticular form, and the endoderm lining it can be distinguished as an upper or exumbral layer and a lower or subumbral layer.

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  • The next event is a great growth in thickness of the gelatinous mesogloea, especially on the exumbral side; as a result the flattened coelenteron is still further compressed so that in certain spots its cavity is obliterated, and its exumbral and subumbral layers of endoderm come into contact and undergo concrescence.

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  • Since 1899 a new form of pressing has been employed, whereby the hay is compressed to stow in about 70 cub.

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  • Foot compressed and elongated.

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  • The tongue presents little variability in length, being short and compressed, with a blunt tip, which is never protruded beyond the incisors.

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  • There are generally nineteen dorso-lumbar vertebrae (thirteen thoracic and six lumbar), the form of which varies in different genera; in the cursorial and leaping species the lumbar transverse processes are generally very long, and in the hares there are large compressed inferior spines, or hypapophyses.

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  • These lead on to the sousliks, Spermophilus (or Citellus), in which the incisors (as in the following genera) differ from those of all the squirrels in not being compressed.

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  • In Atherura fasciculata of the Malay Peninsula the spines are flattened, and the tails long and scaly, with a tuft of compressed bristles.

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  • Many of them, like ungulates, are specialized for swift running, and have unusually long limbs, with ridges developed on the articular surfaces of the lower bones; the clavicles are more or less reduced; the thorax is more compressed than usual, with a narrower breast-bone; and there is a marked tendency to the reduction or loss of the lateral toes, more especially in the hind limb.

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  • Each spikelet contains a solitary flower with two outer small barren glumes, above which is a large tough, compressed, often awned, flowering glume, which partly encloses the somewhat similar pale.

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  • It has, however, been shown that, just as the compressed spring has a capacity for doing work by virtue of its configuration, so in the case of the friction there is a physical effect produced - namely, the raising of the temperature of the bodies in contact, which is the mark of a capacity for doing the same amount of work.

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  • It is compressed into large bricks, and costs two-thirds of a penny per pound.

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  • This consists of a series of vertical earthenware condensing tubes through which compressed air is passed in order to reduce the quantity of nitrogen peroxide to a minimum.

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  • For garden purposes loam should be rather unctuous or soapy to the touch when moderately dry, not too clinging nor adhesive, and should readily crumble when a compressed handful is thrown on the ground.

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  • The seeds of the different cultivated varieties, of which there are a great number, differ much in size and in external markings; but average seeds are of an oval laterally compressed form, with their longest diameter about four lines.

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  • S, Hole through which compressed air is fed.

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  • Tudsbury that if an influence machine is enclosed in a metallic chamber containing compressed air, or better, carbon dioxide, the insulating properties of compressed gases enable a greatly improved effect to be obtained owing to the diminution of the leakage across the plates and from the supports.

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  • The whole surface is uniformly covered with short compressed calcareous spicula embedded in the cuticle.

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  • The piece travels through the rolls very rapidly, so that the reduction takes place over its whole length in a very few seconds, whereas in forging, whether under hammer or press, after one part of the piece has been compressed the piece must next be raised, moved forward, and placed so that the hammer or press may compress the next part of its length.

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  • The systole is not altered in length, but the diastole is very much prolonged, and since this is the period not only of cardiac rest but also of cardiac "feeding" - the coronary vessels being compressed and occluded during systole - the result is greatly to benefit the nutrition of the cardiac muscle.

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  • The claws are large, strongly compressed, sharp, and exhibit the retractile condition in the highest degree, being drawn backwards and upwards into a sheath by the action of an elastic ligament so long as the foot is in a state of repose, but exerted by muscular action when the animal strikes its prey.

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  • Many tropical plants present on the upper surface of their leaves several layers of compressed cells beneath the epidermis which serve for storage of water and are known as aqueous tissue.

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  • They have usually no fibro-vascular system, but consist of a congeries of cells, which sometimes become elongated and compressed so as to resemble veins.

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  • Sometimes it is compressed laterally, as in the aspen, and to this peculiarity the trembling of the leaves of this tree is due.

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  • Those are freely used.in the preparation of small tablets, compressed to such a condition of hardness as to resemble wood or stone, and commonly passed round as currency in certain districts of Russia.

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  • The okapi (Ocapia), which is also African but restricted to the tropical forest-region, in place of being an inhabitant of more or less open country, represents a second genus, characterized by the shorter neck and limbs, the totally different type of colouring, and the restriction of the horns to the male sex, in which they form a pair on the forehead; these horns being more compressed than FIG.

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  • As regards their distinctive features, the antlers are of a complex type and situated close to the occipital ridge of the skull, and thus far away from the sockets of the eyes, with the brow-tines in adult males palmated, laterally compressed, deflected towards the middle of the face, and often unsymmetrically developed.

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  • The mode of administration is by an inhaler attached to an inhalation bag, which serves to break the force with which the oxygen issues from the cylinders in which it is sold in a compressed form.

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  • In the upper jaw there is a compressed, sharp-pointed, tusk-like incisor near the hind edge of the premaxilla, followed in the male at least by a moderate-sized, pointed, curved canine in the anterior part of the maxilla.

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  • In both jaws the anterior front-teeth were of a cutting and compressed type.

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  • At times of storm the compressed air, as it rushes out, produces a sound as of thunder.

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  • It has the same moderately long, plump body, with a low dorsal crest, the continuation of the membrane bordering the strongly compressed tail; a large thick head with small eyes without lids and with a large pendent upper lip; two pairs of well-developed limbs, with free digits; and above all, as the most characteristic feature, three large appendages on each side of the back of the head, fringed with filaments which, in their fullest development, remind one of black ostrich feathers.

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  • The body is smooth and shiny, with vertical grooves on the sides, the tail is but feebly compressed, the eye is moderately large and provided with movable lids, and the upper lip is nearly straight.

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  • These uprights are supported on huge piers of masonry and concrete, the foundations for which were carried down, by the aid of iron caissons and compressed air, to a depth of about 15 metres on the side next the Seine, and about 9 metres on the other side.

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  • Cold air was compressed by a pump into a receiver, where it was kept cool during compression and from which it passed through a regenerator into the working cylinder.

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  • Incidentally, however, they do in some cases partially discharge that function, namely, when what is called a "preheater" is used to warm up the compressed air before it enters in the motor cylinder.

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  • It has been found, however, that very efficient condensers can be made with compressed air as dielectric. If a number of metal plates separated by small distance pieces are enclosed in an iron box which is pumped full of air to a pressure, say, of 10o lb.

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  • Fessenden, "Compressed Air for Condensers," Electrician, 1905, 55, p. 795; Moscicki, "Construction of High Tension Condensers," L'Eclairage electrique, 1904, 41, p. 14, or Engineering, 1904, p. 865.

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  • The body is narrow, laterally compressed and pointed at both ends.

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  • These seeds, the linseed of commerce, are of a lustrous brown colour externally, and a compressed and elongated oval form, with a slight beak or projection at one extremity.

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  • This type was fixed, both in vertical and in perpendicular positions, upon a cylinder, round which rotated other cylinders, which held and compressed the sheets against the larger one, which also revolved and carried the printing surface.

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  • Accordingly the liquid extracts of the gland, or the gland substance itself compressed into tablets, have become largely used in the treatment of the disorder.

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  • The success which has been achieved has led to the use of many other organs in a raw or compressed form, or as extracts, in other diseases; e.g.

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  • The first two premolars are compressed, with cutting longitudinal edges, the anterior one is deciduous, being lost about the time the second one replaces the milk-molar, so that three premolars are never found in place and use in the same individual.

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  • The molars are usually not longer (from before backwards) than the anterior premolars, and less compressed than in the next section.

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  • In the rat-kangaroos, or kangaroo-rats, as they are called in Australia, constituting the sub-family Potoroinae, the first upper incisor is narrow, curved, and much exceeds the others in length; the upper canines are persistent, flattened, blunt and slightly curved, and the first two premolars of both jaws have large, simple, compressed crowns, with a nearly straight or slightly concave free cutting-edge, and both outer and inner surfaces usually marked by a series of parallel, vertical grooves and ridges.

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  • Forefeet narrow; the three middle toes considerably exceeding the first and fifth in length and their claws long, compressed and but slightly curved.

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  • The detached masses into which a jet is resolved do not at once assume and retain a spherical form, but execute a series of vibrations, being alternately compressed and elongated in the direction of the axis of symmetry.

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  • On the other hand, if a gas be sufficiently cooled and compressed, it liquefies; this transition is treated theoretically in the article Condensation Of Gases, and experimentally in the article Liquid Gases.

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  • In this instance a very slight movement at the root of the pinion, or that end of the lever directed towards the body, 1 is followed by an immense sweep of the extremity of the wing, where its elevating and propelling power is greatest - this arrangement ensuring that the large quantity of air necessary for support and propulsion shall be compressed under the most favourable conditions.

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  • Hilum a point; spikelets not laterally compressed.

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  • Hilum a line; spikelets laterally compressed.

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  • In compressed air at ordinary temperature there is no glowing, but it may be brought about by heating.

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  • It is in fact an impossibility that loss should go on without regeneration, for if any part of the sun's body loses heat, it will be unable to support the pressure of neighbouring parts upon it; it will therefore be compressed, in a general sense towards the sun's centre, the velocities of its molecules will rise, and its temperature will again tend upwards.

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  • The latter organ is very long, slender and compressed.

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  • The pumping of the acids up to the top of the towers is now always performed by means of compressed air, either in the old "acid eggs," or more economically in "pulsometers."

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  • In Actinia and its allies, and most generally, though not invariably, in Anthozoa,the stomodaeum is not circular, but is compressed from side to side so as to be oval or slit-like in transverse section.

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  • The stomodaeum is compressed laterally, and is furnished with two longitudinal grooves, a sulcus and a sulculus.

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  • I have refracted it with Prismes, and reflected it with Bodies, which in Day-light were of other colours; I have intercepted it with the coloured film of Air interceding two compressed plates of glass, transmitted it through coloured Mediums, and through Mediums irradiated with other sorts of Rays, and diversly terminated it; and yet could never produce any new colour out of it.

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  • There is no reason to suppose that the central apical plate of certain free-swimming crinoids has any more to do with the distal foot-plate of the larval Antedon stem than has the so-called centrodorsal of Antedon itself, which is nothing but the compressed proximal end of the stem.

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  • Now, however, only the smaller gas works adhere to this system, and this work is done by machinery driven by either compressed air, hydraulic or electric power.

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  • For the purpose of discharging the coke from the retort either compressed air or hydraulic machinery is employed, a rake being made to enter the retort and withdraw the coke on returning.

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  • One of the best-known gas-producers for working with compressed air from below is Taylor's, shown in fig.

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  • Within these are three stamens surrounding a compressed ovary, with two feathery stigmas.

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  • The body is compressed and deep (more so than in the bream) and the scales are minute.

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  • The second conclusion is that, as a general rule, the incandescent heavenly bodies are not masses of solid or liquid matter as formerly assumed, but mainly masses either of gas, or of substances gaseous in their nature, so compressed by the gravitation of their superincumbent parts toward a common centre that their properties combine those of the three forms of matter known to us.

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  • Thus a bar of glass of sufficient thickness, placed in the diagonal position between a crossed polarizer and analyser and bent in a plane perpendicular to that of vision, exhibits two sets of coloured bands separated by a neutral line, the double refraction being positive on the dilated and negative on the compressed side.

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  • They slope obliquely forwards, and end in curved, compressed, hamular processes.

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  • This consists mainly of a long and compressed stylohyal, expanded at the upper end, where it sends off a triangular posterior process.

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  • The basi-hyal is remarkable for the long, median, pointed, compressed " glossohyal " process, which it sends forward from its anterior border into the base of the tongue.

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  • The horizontal ramus, long, straight, and compressed, gradually narrows towards the symphysis, where it expands laterally to form with the ankylosed opposite ramus the wide, semicircular, shallow alveolar border for the incisor teeth.

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  • The spinous processes of the anterior thoracic region are high and compressed.

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  • The sternum consists of six pieces; the anterior or presternum is compressed and projects forwards like the prow of a boat.

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  • The calcaneum has a long and compressed calcaneal process.

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  • The metapodals and phalanges resemble very closely those of the fore limb, but the principal metatarsal is more laterally compressed at its upper end than is the corresponding metacarpal.

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  • In the male they are compressed, pointed, and smaller than the incisors, from which they are separated by a slight interval.

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  • It consists of a compressed intermolar portion with a flat upper surface, broad behind and becoming narrower in front, and of a depressed anterior part rather shorter than the former, which is narrow behind and widens towards the evenly rounded apex.

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  • By screwing in the micrometer, the spring is compressed and the tube lowered.

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  • The town has an extensive chemical manufactory, iron foundry, and factories for the manufacture of guncotton, agricultural implements and compressed leather.

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  • Watson has shown, is hardly distinguishable; (2) Eudyptes, in which the bill is much shorter and rather broad; and (3) Spheniscus, in which the shortish bill is compressed and the maxilla ends in a conspicuous hook.

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  • The compressed air, leaving the compressor at the temperature T2, passes through the cooler, where it is cooled by means of water, and is then admitted to the expansion cylinder, where it is expanded to atmospheric pressure, performing work on the piston.

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  • Another, perhaps the principal, feature was the interchanger, an apparatus whereby the compressed air was further cooled before expansion by means of the comparatively cold air from the room in its passage to the compressor, the same air being used over and over again.

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  • In such compressed-air machines as are now made there is no injection of water during compression, and the compressed air is cooled in a surface cooler, not by actual mixture with a shower of cold water.

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  • The vapours thus generated are drawn into the pump, compressed, and discharged into the condenser at the temperature T2, which is somewhat above that of the cooling water.

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  • Heat is transferred from the compressed vapour to the cooling water and the vapour is converted into a liquid, which collects at the bottom and returns by the regulating valve into the refrigerator.

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  • Evaporation then continues at the constant temperature T, abstracting heat from the substance outside the refrigerator as shown by the line BC. The vapour is then compressed along the line CD to the temperature T2, when, by the action of the cooling water in the condenser, heat is abstracted at constant temperature and the vapour condensed along the line DA.

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  • The compressed vapour is discharged at a temperature but little above that of the cooling water.

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  • Cork bricks made of compressed granulated cork are frequently used, a thickness of about 5 in.

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  • In the remarkable salamander Autodax, the teeth in the jaws are compressed, sharp-edged, lancet shaped.

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  • The otter has an elongated, low body, short limbs, short broad feet, with five toes on each, connected together by webs, and all with short, moderately strong, compressed, curved, pointed claws.

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  • As any detailed statement of the critical system, however compressed, would be beyond the limits of the present article, it is proposed here to select only the more salient doctrines, and to point out in connexion with them what advance had been effected by Kant, and what remained for subsequent efforts at complete solution of the problems raised by him.

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  • Such furnaces are known by the general name of reverberatory or reverbatory furnaces, also as air or wind furnaces, to distinguish them from those worked with compressed air or blast.

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  • Both siphoning and the use of compressed air cylinders were experimented with but failed to noticeably improve the up to 3.5% C02.

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  • Features are either compressed or elongated and so architectural detail, such as windows and doors, can look rather odd.

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  • The tire bale is a building block made from compressed tires.

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  • The starter motor combustion chamber is scavenged by compressed air.

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  • Description Most Ctenopoma are laterally compressed fish with large eyes and big mouths.

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  • The face is made from NexTi Titanium, which is a layered yet tightly compressed titanium.

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  • It is also clever in sending heavily compressed information.

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  • During download/upload operations files and directories are automatically compressed and split into small pieces to assure reliable transmission.

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  • It is compressed using UNIX TAR archiving and Gzip compression.

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  • Copying a compressed file from the Windows Setup CD-ROM automatically decompresses the file.

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  • This utility also decompresses files that were originally compressed using PK ZIP or other formats.

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  • There was a compressed peel of thunder as eight powerful hooves pounded across the wooden drawbridge.

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  • In order to remove this water vapor as well, specially designed compressed air dryers have to be fitted.

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  • In order for detonation to occur, a sphere of plutonium has to be rapidly compressed by a series of conventional high explosives.

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  • Time savings sound extravagant at 10 days work compressed into two hours in some cases, but VW stands by its figure.

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  • Installing UNiBACK from a file When you download the demo, it will be in compressed tar format.

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  • The signal is NTSC, digitized and compressed via a proprietary format and decompressed by a set-top box.

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  • The formation of a new generation of stars is now taking place within this compressed gas in these outer shell structures.

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  • The compressed air supply in the turbine nacelle is only used to release the mechanical brake on a ` start ' command.

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  • There now seems little financial encouragement for drivers to turn to other cleaner fuels, such as compressed natural gas or bioethanol.

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  • These small cross sections of molded compressed neoprene are the key to our survival and deserve more attention than they often get.

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  • When a filter is in use this should be lowered by removing compressed air from the pneumatic pistons.

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  • These are made available for downloading as LaTeX files or compressed postscript.

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  • This installation developed about 4,000 hp and supplied compressed air for distributing through the streets of Paris to drive various prime movers.

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  • While irregular compressed air demand is not always totally evened out by a large compressed air receiver, it is balanced between suitable limits.

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  • Heating causes the relative humidity of the compressed air to be reduced.

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  • Please bring dry pastel, charcoal and compressed charcoal, pencils, eraser, putty rubber, fixative or hairspray.

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  • Normally made from compressed sawdust, they can have diameters of 6, 8 or 10mm.

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  • Rubber rings are compressed between the fitting and the pipe in such a way as to produce a watertight seal.

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  • To prevent sedimentation in the tanks the slurry is agitated by either mechanical means or by compressed air.

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  • When using frames that support the anterior superior iliac spines, the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh may be compressed and stretched.

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  • The whole thing seems heavily compressed, and the final mix-down can sound a tad muddy now and then.

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  • The higher absorbency tampons contain a great deal of fiber that is compressed very tightly to fit into the tube.

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  • This includes tiffs (compressed or not ), JPEGs and PNGs.

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  • A standard quartz wedge might show five orders of interference colors making the color bands under view much more compressed for the same magnification.

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  • But, unlike Mayer and Seguin, Joule was not content with assuming that when air is compressed or allowed to expand the heat generated or absorbed is the equivalent of the work done and of that only, no change being made in the internal energy of the air itself when the temperature is kept constant.

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  • Anaximenes, a pupil of Anaximander, was the first to reject the view that the earth was a circular plane, but held it to be an oblong rectangle, buoyed up in the midst of the heavens by the compressed air upon which it rested.

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  • However much compressed by mechanical means it is still a porous mass, and when it is confined as in a gun the flame and hot gases from the portion first ignited permeate the remainder, generally causing it actually to detonate, or to burn so rapidly that its action approaches detonation.

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  • Guncotton containing more than 15% of water is uninflammable, may be compressed or worked without danger and is much more difficult to detonate by a fulminate This formula is retained mainly on account of its simplicity.

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  • Recently, however, a well-known sugar maker in Germany has altered his battery in such manner that instead of having to open a large door below the cells in order to discharge them promptly, he opens a comparatively small valve and, applying compressed air at the top of the cell, blows the whole contents of spent slices up a pipe to the drying apparatus, thus saving not only a great deal of time but also a great deal of labour of a kind which is both arduous and painful, especially during cold weather.

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  • The Cephidae, or stem saw-flies, have an elongate pronotum, a compressed abdomen, and a single spine on the shin of the fore-leg.

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  • Only the middle spikelet of each triplet is fertile; the ear has therefore only two longitudinal rows of grain, and the spikes are strongly compressed laterally.

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  • In the transmission of power by compressed air (see POWER TRANSMISSION) the air-driven motors are for the most part machines resembling steam-engines in the general features of their pistons, cylinders, valves and so forth.

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  • The object of this interchanger was not only to cool the compressed air before expansion, but to condense part of the moisture in it, so reducing the quantity of ice or snow produced during expansion.

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  • His face was gloomy and his lips compressed.

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  • The wounded, bandaged with rags, with pale cheeks, compressed lips, and knitted brows, held on to the sides of the carts as they were jolted against one another.

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  • Countess Mary turned red and then pale, but continued to sit with head bowed and lips compressed and gave her husband no reply.

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  • Any buds which appear crushed or compressed, which contain seeds or which have a stale smell, are probably misrepresented imported bush.

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  • This includes TIFFs (compressed or not), JPEGs and PNGs.

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  • Compressed heavy clay loam topsoil horizon (102) 0.45 - 0.5m Subsoil.

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  • Small may mean convenience and portability but remember, the smaller the size of the laptop, the smaller and more compressed the keyboard and screen are.

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  • The cushions need to be filled to the brim and really compressed or else the filling can become concentrated in a particular area.

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  • The Environmental Protection Agency has tested the emissions on light duty compressed natural gas vehicles and heavy duty compressed natural gas vehicles (such as city buses) to study the benefits of natural gas as an alternative fuel.

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  • When the microorganisms compressed they became oil.

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  • Another form of alternative fuel is compressed natural gas.

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  • With a few adjustments, many vehicles and other equipment can change from gasoline-powered vehicles to compressed natural gas (commonly known as CNG) vehicles.

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  • These tiles are made of compressed clay dust; while they are compressed the shape of the image is imbedded in the top of the tile.

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  • Airbrushing is essentially a makeup technique where makeup is applied using compressed air through an airbrush gun, which creates a lightweight, fine mist of makeup.

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  • Snow guns produce water droplets by combining cooled water with compressed air.

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  • The compressed air atomizes and cools the water droplets, and blows them into the air.

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  • These compressed water droplets fall as snow.

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  • The availability of compressed air and electricity should also be taken into consideration.

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  • In an internal mix system, compressed air and water are mixed in an internal chamber of the snow gun.

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  • In an external snow making system, the compressed air and water are mixed outside of the snow gun to form snow crystals.

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  • This is because they require less compressed air; however, unlike internal mix systems, they are highly affected by wind forces.

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  • Unlike internal and external mix systems, which use compressed air, this type of snow making system uses air from a fan to suspend the water droplets in the air.

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  • However, since they do not use compressed air, they are the most energy efficient of the three systems.

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  • Voiced by Dave Willis, Meatwad is a mass of compressed meat.

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  • Z. planispinum is an interesting shrub of dense growth, with glossy evergreen leaves and branches covered with stout compressed spines.

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  • These steps require a source of compressed air, a compressed air adapter and a gallon or more of RV antifreeze.

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  • Turn on the compressed air on keeping the pressure on a low setting.

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  • The advantage is that the data is better encrypted (more secure) and it is also compressed (better performance).

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  • Use a can of compressed air or even a vacuum with an attachment in order to dry the phone.

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  • It becomes compressed and cuts off blood flow to the baby.

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  • Ischemia usually occurs when an artery is compressed as it passes through a tightly flexed joint.

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  • The most common example is carpal tunnel syndrome, which occurs when the median nerve is compressed as it passes through a narrow channel in the wrist.

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  • In Bell's palsy, this nerve becomes compressed due to swelling and inflammation that is a part of the body's reaction to an infectious disease process.

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  • In 2004, Working Mother magazine reported that 97 percent of the companies on their list of the 100 best companies for mothers in the workforce offered compressed workweeks or job sharing opportunities.

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  • The chest is compressed about one and one half to two inches per compression.

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  • Avoid sleeping on your stomach or side to prevent your breasts from being compressed against the mattress.

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  • The handle also controls magnets that keep the spring compressed; releasing it when the toast is cooked to the user's preference.

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  • Tungsten, carbon and other substances are ground up and compressed with high heat and pressure dies.

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  • Thin, flexible sheets of compressed foam, available at most craft stores make adequate stencils or you can purchase material from most supply shops.

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  • Suggestions for replacements include compressed air, hydrogen-based fuel and 100 percent electric cars.

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  • Suggestions for improving efficiency include using the energy from exhaust gas, waste heat and compressed air or traditional gasoline hybrid engines.

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  • Pull the tape measure tight, but make certain your skin is not compressed and no bulges are visible below or above the tape.

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  • As the nerve becomes more compressed, the pain is often felt radiating up the arm.

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  • Sommerring's and O'Followell's assumption was that some organs such as the liver in the right upper abdomen are compressed against the spine.

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  • Monkey Magic Boxer Shorts are unique because they come compressed within the package.

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  • Song quality is also in question, since the tracks are compressed, so the quality is not much better than what can be found on peer-to-peer networks.

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  • Use compressed tracks whenever possible.

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  • An MP3, also known as a MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 file, is a type of compressed audio computer file.

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  • The breakthrough that MP3 technology provided the digital world was that the files created were highly compressed, yet still possessed excellent sound quality.

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  • By contrast, MP3 files are compressed files that undergoing a certain amount of processing to save space, but in the process these sound files also lose a little bit of sound quality as well.

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  • A podcast is a compressed, online audio file that is delivered via an RSS feed.

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  • A podcast is an online audio file that has been compressed into an easy-to-download digital format.

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  • The fresh air design works with either compressed air or Air 160/190 respiratory units.

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  • The origin of this technology really started with Bitstream's release of "TrueDoc," which was an open source solution that stores character shapes in special compressed files called Portable Font Resource (PFR).

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  • The plates are compressed from before backwards, the anterior and posterior surfaces (as seen in the worn grinding face of the tooth) being nearly parallel.

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  • Cousin dedicated to him the fourth volume of his translation of Plato, and the long dedication is a compressed biography.

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  • The cylinder contains towards n a sliding rod, and towards 0 a compressed spiral spring.

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  • Premolars with compressed crowns, increasing in size from before backwards.

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  • First two premolars with compressed and sharp-pointed crowns, and slightly developed anterior and posterior accessory basal cusps.

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  • Fore feet with five sub-equal toes, with compressed, slightly curved pointed claws.

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  • Fore-feet with five toes, all having strong pointed, compressed claws, the second, third and fourth nearly equal, the fifth somewhat and the first considerably shorter.

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  • The lower incisors are partially inclined forwards, compressed and tapering, bevelled at the ends.

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  • Fore-feet with the two inner toes slightly separated from and opposable to the remaining three, all with strong curved and much compressed claws.

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  • This minimum was at first fixed at 50%, but on and after the 1st of August 1906 it was raised to 75%, with the result that soon after that date practically all the rolling stock of American railways, whether passenger or freight, was provided with compressed air brakes.

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  • He compressed into a single chapter the domestic history and policy of the emperors from the son of Heraclius to Isaac Angelus; and did no justice to the remarkable ability and the indefatigable industry shown in the service of the state by most of the sovereigns from Leo III.

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  • Foot narrow, compressed, without sole.

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  • No anterior tentacles, and no dorsal appendages; body laterally compressed, transparent; pelagic. Phyllirhoe.

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  • This treatment with acid and alkali is usually effected by agitation with compressed air.

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  • He was said to be the inventor of a kind of flying-machine, a wooden pigeon balanced by a weight suspended from a pulley, and set in motion by compressed air escaping from a valve.'

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  • This mode has some disadvantages attending it; such sheets are difficult to handle; the crustaceous species are liable to have their surfaces rubbed; the foliaceous species become so compressed as to lose their characteristic appearance; and the spaces between the sheets caused by the thickness of the specimen permit the entrance of dust.

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  • When the trigeminus nerve is divided (Majendie), or when its root is compressed injuriously, say Iby a tubercular tumour, the cornea begins to show points of ulceration, which, increasing in area, may bring about total disintegration of the eyeball.

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  • Their body is generally compressed and slender; their broad ventral scutes are often carinate on the sides.

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  • Fore feet with the functional toes reduced to two, the second and third, of equal length, with closely united metacarpals and short, sharp, slightly curved, compressed claws.

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  • In the next experiment the air was compressed as before, and then allowed to escape through a long lead tube immersed in the water of a calorimeter, and finally collected in a bell jar.

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  • On repeating the experiment when the two vessels were placed in different calorimeters, it was found that heat was absorbed by the vessel containing the compressed air, while an equal quantity of heat was produced in the calorimeter containing the exhausted vessel.

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  • The foot resembles that of the other lemurs in its large opposable great toe with a flat nail; but all the other toes have pointed compressed claws.

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  • The pieces are carefully heated with exclusion of air and then compressed into a uniform mass by intense hydraulic pressure; the softened amber being forced through holes in a metal plate.

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  • What characterizes a tadpole is the conjoined globular head and body, so formed that it is practically impossible to discern the limit between the two, sharply set off from the more or less elongate compressed tail which is the organ of propulsion.

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  • Internally they are found to consist of a lamina twisted upon itself, and externally they generally exhibit a tortuous structure, produced, before the cloaca was reached, by the spiral valve of a compressed small intestine (as in skates, sharks and dog-fishes); the surface shows also vascular impressions and corrugations due to the same cause.

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  • Order Colymbiformes.-Plantigrade, nidifugous, aquatic. All toes webbed, fourth largest, hallux short; metatarsus laterally compressed; tibia with high, pyramidal crest.

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  • Each drop tried to spread out and occupy as much space as possible, but others striving to do the same compressed it, sometimes destroyed it, and sometimes merged with it.

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  • It is therefore necessary not only to pulverize the soil by repeated ploughings before it be seeded, but, as it becomes gradually more and more compressed afterwards, recourse must be had to tillage while the plants are growing; and this is hoeing, which also destroys the weeds that would deprive the plants of their nourishment.

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  • The cotton leaves the ginning machine in a very loose condition, and has to be compressed into bales for convenience of transport.

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  • The cotton is pressed locally and afterwards " compressed " into a very small compass.

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  • Within recent years, owing to the initiative of Colonel English, a method of raising oil by the agency of compressed air has been introduced into the Baku oil-fields.

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  • With compressed and parched lips and dry fixed eyes, she sat at the window, uneasily watching the people who drove past and hurriedly glancing round at anyone who entered the room.

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  • That it is caused by the compressed condition of the gradually accumulating gas.

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  • The tail is laterally compressed, nearly naked, and scaly.

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  • The gaur, which extends into Burma and the Malay Peninsula, where it is known as seladang, is the typical representative of an Indo-Malay group of wild cattle characterized by the presence of a ridge on the withers, the compressed horns, and the white legs.

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  • Fleas are wingless insects, with a laterally compressed body, small and indistinctly separated head, and short thick antennae situated in cavities somewhat behind and above the simple eyes, which are always minute and sometimes absent.

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  • Premolars compressed, pointed; and the molars with quadrate tuberculated crowns.

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  • In March 1897 the floating debt was calculated by a financial authority in the Fortnightly Review to amount to upwards of £TJ5,000,000, which might be compressed to £T25,000,000 since a large proportion was certainly composed of salaries in arrear and other items of a similar kind which the government would never, under any circumstances, make good.

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  • Such books were in fact not geography, but merely compressed travel.

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  • The first lower premolar compressed in front; the others composed of a single pair of transverse crests, with a small anterior and posterior basal ridge.

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  • Skull elevated and compressed; with the orbit and temporal fossa widely continuous, there being no true post-orbital process from the frontal bone.

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  • With Mahommedan peoples it is sufficient for a woman to cover her face; the Chinese women would think it extremely indecent to show their artificially compressed feet, and it is even improper to mention them to a woman; in Sumatra and Celebes the wild tribes consider the exposure of the knee immodest; in central Asia the finger-tips, and in Samoa the navel are similarly regarded.

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  • Steam locomotives have been largely superseded by compressed air or electric locomotives.

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  • By using compressed air vitiation of the mine air is avoided, as well as all danger of fire or explosion of gas.

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  • Electric locomotives are in general more economical then either steam or compressed air.

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  • Compressed air locomotives are provided with cylindrical FIG.

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  • When compressed it is also used largely as a refrigerating agent, and in virtue of its property of neither burning nor supporting combustion it is also used as a fire extinctor.

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