Guttate is from the Latin word gutta, meaning "drop". From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
The gutta is a "resist," a medium that stops the penetration of other liquids. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This plant also known as the gutta-percha tree, has been an important economic plant and is endemic to the mountainous regions of China. From Wordnik.com. [2. China] Reference
In Bengal a kind of gutta percha is made by boiling the juice. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Use equal parts of pitch and gutta percha together. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures] Reference
We assume that the gutta percha has become negative. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
It is preserved in flasks made of wax or gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Golf balls are made of gutta percha, painted white. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
This possesses nearly all the properties of gutta percha. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
We have also used a piece of gutta-percha to take out the lights. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
And he crumples up his little face like those things in gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
India-rubber, and his rashers gutta-percha, is not a fresh experience. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rebel A Novel] Reference
It is gutta-percha, the wonderful vegetable juice, which is as firm as. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
Naphtha -- a heavy fluid, useful to dissolve gutta percha, india rubber, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879] Reference
Let us suppose that this gutta percha, and this cat's-skin are not electrified. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
A compound used in its stead for many purposes is known as French gutta percha. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
The best wire to use is about No. 16 copper wire, coated with gutta percha or rubber. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Sumatra is also the home of several trees and plants from which gutta-percha is obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The need for a substitute for gutta percha is even more acute than for artificial India rubber. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
The finished cordite resembles a cord of gutta-percha, and its colour varies from light to dark brown. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
What I take to be excoecaria resembles the tree Mr. Walker describes as being probably the gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
We now place it on a flat double hook of gutta percha and lower it gently into the nitrate-of-silver bath. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
But for the convulsive movement of her lips now and then, no gutta-percha doll could be more utterly still. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
No one has as yet, however, succeeded in discovering a perfect substitute for either rubber or gutta percha. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
The easiest way perhaps is to take a casting in plaster of Paris, or by means of pressure in warm gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
In August, 1850, they laid a single copper wire covered with gutta-percha from Dover in England to the coast of. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
The article to be copied is first covered with black-lead, and then a mould is made of it in wax or gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
You will remember what I said about insulation, -- how a tiny hole in the gutta-percha would allow the electricity to escape. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
The downward force is embodied in the horizontal lines of the lintel, architrave, cornice, and in the hanging mutules and gutta. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The necessary connections are effected with a cement made by melting Burgundy pitch with three or four per cent of gutta percha. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
These, twisted loosely into a small cable, are surrounded by repeated layers of gutta-percha, which is, in turn, covered with jute. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
A substitute for gutta percha is obtained by boiling the bark of the birch tree, especially the outer part, in water over an open fire. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
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