Its extreme fugacity, however, militates against its employment by artists. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The fugacity is practically equal to the partial pressure, pCO2 (within ~1%). From Wordnik.com. [Marine carbonate chemistry] Reference
There is no need for this cant cry of fugacity, which casts such a blight on modern art. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Will they not rather spread over the picture the Upas-tree of fugacity, and kill it as they die themselves!. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
As there are different degrees both of permanence and fugacity, so are there different degrees of semi-stability. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The best of pigments may be ruined by their injudicious use, and obtain a character for fugacity which they in no way deserve. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The effects produced are lost sight of in a consideration of the materials, their permanence, fugacity, and conduct towards each other. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
A fugue may be at its best when it has all the virtues of fugacity; but law is not best when it excels in legality; law must also be just. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Positivism] Reference
Profiles of the fugacity (partial pressure corrected for the fact that the gas is not ideal) of CO2 in Canada Basin and the Eurasian Basin. From Wordnik.com. [Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic] Reference
Emerson, differing from the tradition of Swedenbor - gian “correspondences” on which he drew, insists on the “accidency and fugacity” of the symbol. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Bearing in mind the scarlet iodide of mercury, iodine is capable of furnishing the three primary colours, distinguished alike by their brilliancy and fugacity. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
To further muddy the waters introduce the idea of gas fugacity – given constant P and T, greenschist assemblages can be amphibolite simply by increasing O2 fugacity. From Wordnik.com. [Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit] Reference
Finally, the fugacity is calculated from the mixing ratio. pH is usually measured using a glass/reference electrode cell or spectrophotometrically using an indicator dye. From Wordnik.com. [Marine carbonate chemistry] Reference
In like manner, lakes and carmines thrown down upon a base, may owe some of their fugacity to the oxidation of that base, as well as to the natural infirmity of their colouring matter. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Unlike green and orange, therefore, purple can point to no original pigment at once vivid and durable: as regards purple, brilliancy implies a semi-stability that borders more or less closely on fugacity. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It should likewise be remembered that pigments are apt to vary in stability according to the mode of their preparation; and that, as there are different degrees of permanence, there are different degrees of fugacity. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
On account of its extreme fugacity when compounded with white lead, this red cannot be used in tints; but employed, unmixed with other pigments, in simple varnish or oil not rendered drying by any metallic oxide, it may stand a long time under favourable circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Hence, all artistic considerations are set aside in our lists of permanent pigments: if it be possible to use them alone, so much the better for the permanence of painting; if not, so much the worse will it be, according to the degree of fugacity of the colours employed. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Of a truth, if man cannot dip his brush in the rainbow and paint with the aerial colours of the skies, he can at least select the best pigments that earth and the sea afford him; preferring, where he cannot get brilliancy and permanence combined, sobriety and permanence to brilliancy and fugacity. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
He perceives the independence of the thought on the symbol, the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the symbol. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
Agardh considers that the acrid principle, which, notwithstanding its fugacity, has lately been obtained pure, is of great power as a stimulant. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The energetic demands for protein formation are a function of the composition of proteins as well as geochemical variables including temperature, pressure, oxygen fugacity and pH. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
A cap of feathers to express the fugacity of thought, and producing from his mouth the great egg. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature] Reference
Solvent depletion involves a reduction in the mass of solvent in which the contaminant is held, a process that can lead to fugacity amplification (i.e. From Wordnik.com. [Global change and contaminants in the Arctic] Reference
In this case we perceive that, relatively to the animal kingdom, we should chiefly give our attention to the invertebrate animals, because their enormous multiplicity in nature, the singular diversity of their systems of organization and of their means of multiplication, their increasing simplification, and the extreme fugacity of those which compose the lowest orders of these animals, show us much better than the others the true course of nature, and the means which she has used and which she is still incessantly employing to give existence to all the living bodies of which we have knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
"fugacity of ancient, 6. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Different poets describing the spring or the sea would mention the zephyrs and the flowers, the billows and the rocks; reflecting on human life, they would, without any communication of opinions, lament the deceitfulness of hope, the fugacity of pleasure, the fragility of beauty, and the frequency of calamity; and for palliatives of these incurable miseries, they would concur in recommending kindness, temperance, caution, and fortitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
In this case we perceive that, relatively to the animal kingdom, we should chiefly devote our attention to the invertebrate animals, because their enormous multiplicity in nature, the singular diversity of their systems of organization and of their means of multiplication, their increasing simplification, and the extreme fugacity of those which compose the lowest orders of these animals, show us, much better than the higher animals, the true course of nature, and the means which she has used and which she still unceasingly employs to give existence to all the living bodies of which we have knowledge. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
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