It is one of the most infusible of the metals, requiring a temperature little short of 3000° for fusion. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
In making alloys, care must be taken to have the more infusible metals melted first, and afterwards add the others. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
It may also occur as the amorphous non-poisonous variety, a red opaque infusible substance, insoluble in carbon disulphide. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Before the blowpipe it is infusible, but if powdered, it slowly dissolves in the molten borax bead and yields a beautiful green globule. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
It is a kind of mineral, of a deep shining black or bluish color, soft and unctuous to the touch; it is insoluble in acids, and infusible by fire. 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
If infusible casings can be made, I think I am not overstating facts in saying that any temperature required can and will eventually be obtained with the greatest ease. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
If directed against some infusible substance like ordinary lime (calcium oxide), the heat is so intense that the lime becomes incandescent and glows with a brilliant light. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
One of the peculiarities in the clay found in Japan is that it contains both the fusible and infusible materials in such proportions as to make a light, beautiful, translucent, and durable porcelain. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
He subsequently used the furnace to volatilize many substances which had been regarded as infusible and to prepare many new compounds, particularly carbides, silicides and borides; in 1891 he discovered carborundum. From Wordnik.com. [Henri Moissan - Biography] Reference
It is, however, very difficult to fuse, and alone it is infusible under the blowpipe, but with microcosmic salt it fuses and evolves fluorine, and the glass of the tube in the open end of which the stone is fixed is bitten with the gas. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference
Carbon, in all its forms, is absolutely infusible. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Chemistry] Reference
It helps to flux phosphate of lime, &c., and infusible silicates. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
These artificial metals are both absolutely infusible and non-volatile. From Wordnik.com. [Invaders from the Infinite] Reference
The burgers are infusible with six flavors, including anchovy and smoked paprika. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
The composition of the infusible clays of the best kinds have been determined by many analyses. 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
It has become a brown infusible substance, which does not shine in the dark nor oxidate in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
Carbon, whether coherent in charcoal, or in powder, is infusible by any heat that has hitherto been applied. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1] Reference
His notes include the use of powdered silicon mixed with lime or other very infusible non-conductors or semi-conductors. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
Both substances, the infusible and the fusible, are productions of the same geological formation, -- decomposed feldspathic rock. From Wordnik.com. [Some Chinese Ghosts] Reference
It has been made combustible, and at the same time infusible, in order to localize our fires and confine them within their appointed bounds. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Chemistry] Reference
If the materials had been agate or cornelian, or the most infusible substances known on the earth, they would have been fused and driven into vapour by the intensity of the sun's rays. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
I have also similar specimens from the same place, in which the coal is not of that fixed and infusible kind, which burns without flame or smoak, but is bituminous or inflammable coal. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical)] Reference
The infusible condition of the silver at the temperature used, and the length and ramifying character of its crystals, render the above experiment difficult to perform, and uncertain in its results. From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference
Eight forms of electric lamps using infusible earthy oxides and brought to high incandescence in vacuo by high potential current of several thousand volts; same character as impingement of X-rays on object in bulb. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
~Oxide of Lead~, in the form of red lead or litharge, is a valuable flux; it easily dissolves those metallic oxides which are either infusible or difficultly fusible of themselves, such as oxides of iron or copper. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
The marvelous new tubes that ran its ray screen flashed instantly to a temperature inconceivable, and, so long as the elements embedded in the infusible relux remained the metals they were, those tubes could not fail. From Wordnik.com. [Invaders from the Infinite] Reference
Many substances which are insoluble or infusible of themselves, become soluble or fusible when mixed with certain others; thus, in this way, solution is got with the aid of reagents, and fusion with the help of fluxes. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
Why should it not, at a certain depth, attain an impassable limit, instead of rising to such a point as to fuse the most infusible metals?”. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
Our cannon must be possessed of great tenacity, great hardness, be infusible by heat, indissoluble, and inoxidable by the corrosive action of acids.”. From Wordnik.com. [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference
32,000 miles of the Sun. The heat to which it was exposed was sufficient to volatilize the most infusible substances known to exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Why should it not, at a certain depth, attain an impassable limit, instead of rising to such a point as to fuse the most infusible metals? ". From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
It is infusible before the blowpipe. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832] Reference
It is white, infusible, and insoluble in water. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
14. infusible. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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