Empty the sample of soil into the mortar and triturate thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Green oxide of chromium 1 part, flux No. 3, 3 parts, triturate and melt. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Green oxide of chromium, 1 part; oxide of cobalt, 2 parts; triturate, and melt at a high heat. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Subsulphate of iron, 1 part; oxide of zinc, 1 part; flux No. 2, 5 parts; triturate without melting. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Mucilage one ounce; triturate it with Levigated Indigo and Lamp Black q.s. to give it a good color. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Tannin, two drachms; water, two fluid drachms; triturate together, and add lard, one and a half drachms. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Let the above be very finely powdered, then mix it with sufficient honey to make it into a smooth paste; triturate it until entirely smooth. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Oxide of cobalt, 2 parts; oxide of copper, 2 parts; oxide of manganese, 1 part; flux No. 1, 6 parts; fused borax, 1/2 part; melt and add oxide of manganese, 1 part; oxide of copper, 2 parts; triturate without melting. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Take three cantharides, and removing their head, feet, and wings, triturate their bodies in three cupfuls (cyathi) of water, and when the person who has drunk the draught complains of pain, let him have hot fomentations applied. From Wordnik.com. [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference
A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on “all fours,” are used to triturate the holcus grain. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Melt together over a water bath white wax and spermaceti each one ounce, camphor two ounces, sweet almond oil, one pound, then triturate until the mixture has become homogeneous, and allow one pound of rose-water to flow in slowly during the operation. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Melt together over a water bath white wax and spermaceti, each 1 ounce; camphor, 2 ounces, in sweet almond oil, 1 pound; then triturate until the mixture has become homogeneous, and allow one pound of rosewater to flow in slowly during the operation. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Take one drachm of ebeny and nine oboli of burnt copper, rub them upon a whetstone, add three oboli of saffron; triturate all these things reduced to a fine powder, pour in an Attic hemina of sweet wine, and then place in the sun and cover up; when sufficiently digested, use it. From Wordnik.com. [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference
Blue previously made by melting together three parts of flux No. 1, and one part of the mixture of oxide of cobalt, 8 parts; oxide of zinc, 1 part; sulphate of iron calcined at a forge heat, 1 part; flux No. 2, 3 parts; triturate and add a little manganese in order to render it more grey. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
And to say the truth, remembering that Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Having cut some bulbs or squill, boil in water, and when well boiled, throw this away, and having poured in more water, boil until it appear to the touch soft and well-boiled; then triturate finely and mix roasted cumin, and white sesames, and young almonds pounded in honey, form into an electuary and give; and afterwards sweet wine. From Wordnik.com. [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference
Lombard (Fr.Pat. 350,179, 1904) claims that acids act as stimulating agents in the enzymic hydrolysis of oils, and further that a simple method of obtaining the active product is to triturate oil cake with its own weight of water, allow the mixture to undergo spontaneous proteolytic hydrolysis at 40° C. for eight days, and then filter, the filtrate obtained being used in place of water in the enzymic process. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
It is a good thing to triturate against other people occasionally. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
They then grind or triturate the mass anew until all the particles of earthy 'matter are washed away. From Wordnik.com. [Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830] Reference
Newton's to all who know nothing about it, some persons wonder why science does not rise and triturate the whole thing. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
But get him, if I may continue the metaphor, not into the mortar, but set him in the sunshine of the divine love, and that will do more than break, it will melt the hardest heart that no pestle would do anything but triturate. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke] Reference
A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on "all fours," are used to triturate the holcus grain. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
It is obliged to triturate its food -- grass, and herbaceous plants -- for a long time, in consequence of the contracted size of the oesophagus, which will hardly admit a goose-quill, although the animal is sometimes so large that it weighs more than two hundred pounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Dolliver Romance] Reference
Teeth of this structure necessarily require horizontal motions to enable them to triturate, or grind down the herbaceous food; and accordingly the condyles of the jaw could not be formed into such confined joints as in the carnivorous animals, but must have a flattened form, correspondent to sockets in the temporal bones. From Wordnik.com. [Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.] Reference
Riding is good, for those that are born with a silver-mounted bridle in their hand, and can ride as much and as often as they like, without thinking all the time they hear that steady grinding sound as the horse's jaws triturate with calm lateral movement the bank-bills and promises to pay upon which it is notorious that the profligate animal in question feeds day and night. From Wordnik.com. [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference
He taught me to titillate, to triturate, to masticate, to deglute -- everything. ". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920] Reference
(i.), are simply employed in grasping the food; the cheek teeth -- the premolars (pm.) and molars (m.) behind -- triturate the food by a complicated motion over each. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
It's a little bit harder to triturate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2009] Reference
Sugar. sufficient quantity to triturate. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference
Another: - Of frankincense a drachm, of gall a drachm, of saffron three drachms; let each of these be dried and finely levigated, then, having mixed, triturate in a very strong sun, pouring in the juice of an unripe grape, until it become of a gelatinous consistence, for three days; then let them be allowed to macerate in an austere, dark-colored, fragrant wine, which is gradually poured upon them. From Wordnik.com. [On Ulcers] Reference
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