There is also an increased risk in case of fire, owing to its ready fusibility. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
If several piaces have to be soldered on the same piece, it is well to use solder of unlike fusibility. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
The percentage of carbon present determines the major properties (i.e., hardness, fusibility, toughness). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
For by what right is it that fusibility comes to be a part of the essence signified by the word gold, and solubility but a property of it?. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Apopholite is distinguished from calcite, as noticed under that species, and from the others by its form, difficult fusibility, and part solubility. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
This valuable metal possesses the whiteness of silver, the indestructibility of gold, the tenacity of iron, the fusibility of copper, the lightness of glass. From Wordnik.com. [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference
French "esmail," and the Italian "smalta," all meaning about the same thing, and suggesting the one quality which is inseparable from enamel of all nations and of all ages, -- its fusibility. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
The unlooked-for characters of the mineral, coupled with the extreme minuteness of the crystals, led me previously astray, until my meldometer fixed its fusibility for me as far above the suspected bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
Every metal deprived of this igneous principle is immediately reduced to a calx, and thus deprived of its splendour, fusibility, and other properties, until restored again by the readmission of its phlogiston. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Because it is no consequence one way or the other from my complex idea: the necessity or inconsistence of malleability hath no visible connexion with the combination of that colour, weight, and fusibility in any body. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
What I have said here of the nominal essence of gold, supposed to consist of a body of such a determinate colour, weight, and fusibility, will hold true, if malleableness, fixedness, and solubility in aqua regia be added to it. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Of course, there is a considerable difference between different kinds of flint glass as to the melting point, and this may account for the divergency of the statements usually met with as to its fusibility compared with that of soda glass. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
For fusibility being one of the simple ideas that goes to the making up the complex one the sound gold stands for, what can it be but playing with sounds, to affirm that of the name gold, which is comprehended in its received signification?. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
"Mercury" is the metallic principle par excellence, conferring on metals their brightness and fusibility, and corresponding to the spirit or intelligence in man. 121 "Sulphur," the principle of combustion and colour, is the analogue of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Bygone Beliefs] Reference
Beudant31 succeeded in making tubes, in most respects similar to these fulgurites, by passing very strong shocks of galvanism through finely-powdered glass: when salt was added, so as to increase its fusibility, the tubes were larger in every dimension. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
Fluorides generally are fusible, and impart fusibility to substances with which they form weak compounds. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
This metal is easily oxidized, but to bring it to a state of fusibility, it requires a most intense heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
Bismuth metal is used in alloys, to which it gives low fusibility combined with hardness and sharp definition. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
But the sense of the infinite fusibility and change in the objective world is deeper than that revealed in any one type of diffluent imagination. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
It is more satisfactory to separate the chloride, which may be recognised by its taste, flame coloration, fusibility, and negative action with reagents. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
For the most satisfactory results the rock should contain 96 per cent or more of silica, and very little of the alkali materials, which increase the fusibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
We are but limited in the art of increasing the heat or the cold of bodies; we find, however, extreme difference in their substances with respect to fusibility. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 3 (historical)] Reference
Clays for certain purposes should not effervesce with acids; this phenomenon denotes the presence of carbonate of lime, which imparts fusibility to the compound. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
The clay of the tertiary beds, it will be perceived, contains but a small proportion of lime and iron, or other elements which are calculated to confer fusibility. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
They make use of a gray limestone, which is broke in the neighborhood, for promoting the fusibility of the ore; to that purpose they likewise employ a clay marl, which is found near this place. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
I mean the strange feeling, witnessed to by many poets, of the fluidity, fusibility, transparency -- the infinitely changing and interchangeable aspects -- of the world as it appears to the senses. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
For a variety of uses to which clay is put, it is necessary to know its degree of plasticity, tensile strength, shrinkage (both under air and fire), fusibility, color, specific gravity, and chemical properties. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
A species of creatures really existing; as when it joins the weight of tin to the colour, fusibility, and fixedness of gold. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Further trials discover fusibility and fixedness. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
17. fusibility. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
But yet it is its colour, weight, fusibility, fixedness. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Invented by Dr. Hare -- construction -- effects -- difference in bodies with regard to fusibility -- can any substance resist the action of this instrument -- can the heat produced be estimated. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Lectures on Chemistry, Mineralogy, & Geology, Delivered at the University of North-Carolina, for the Use of the Students. [1]-44 p.] Reference
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