The percentage of putrescible matter may range from 20 to 70%. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
The white Cabbage is most putrescible; the red most emollient and pectoral. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Nuts have the great advantage that although richer in protein than is meat, they are much less putrescible. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference
Water fresh from the well is usually tasteless, even if it contains a large amount of putrescible organic matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
The dustbins must cease being made the receptacle for putrescent and putrescible matter, the destruction of which by fire should be insisted upon. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
Where there is overcrowding, the collections of putrescible filth are multiplied, and with them probably the productive foci of infective particles. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
It is highly probable, judging from the results of experiments, that every collection of putrescible matter is potentially a productive focus of microbes. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
When full it should be thoroughly emptied and cleaned out; for the matter left at the bottom of a cesspit is liable to be in a highly putrescible condition. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference
The importance of "Dutch cleanliness" in our houses, and the abolition of all collections of putrescible matter in and around our houses, is abundantly evident. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
All this food waste results in putrescible waste i.e stuff that goes putrid, stuff that can go liquid and leach or ooze its way out of the landfil sites and contaminate the water etc. From Wordnik.com. [Snell-Pym » Putrescible Waste] Reference
Another method of converting waste to energy is biomethanation where putrescible waste is anaerobically digested to create biogas which consists mainly of methane, a high-fuel value gas. From Wordnik.com. [Waste-to-energy] Reference
The fermentative saprophyte is as absolutely essential to the setting up of destructive rotting or putrescence in a putrescible fluid as the torula is to the setting up of alcoholic fermentation in a saccharine fluid. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
Firstly, it is difficult to the point of being impossible to recycle contaminated soil – but secondly, the material is actually useful to tip managers who have to deal with putrescible household waste, and prevent wind-blown debris spreading outside the boundary of the tip. From Wordnik.com. [The fly-tipping nightmare] Reference
In nuts we have a choice foodstuff as digestible as any other foodstuff, and Prof. Torrey and Prof. Mendel and others who have recently made experiments have shown that the protein of the nut and the protein of vegetables in general is not so putrescible as the protein of meats. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference
Thus is formed, containing the latent germ life, no longer in danger from the destructive action of oxygen, thus, I repeat, is formed the septic dust, and we are able to understand what has before seemed so obscure; we can see how putrescible fluids can be inoculated by the dust of the air, and how it is that putrid diseases are permanent in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
When Pasteur in 1857 showed that the lactic fermentation depends on the presence of an organism, it was already known from the researches of Schwann (1837) and Helmholtz (1843) that fermentation and putrefaction are intimately connected with the presence of organisms derived from the air, and that the preservation of putrescible substances depends on this principle. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Excerpt reservation of putrescible substances depends on this principle. From Wordnik.com. [manybooks.net] Reference
By means of a membrane, he separated a sterilised putrescible liquid from a putrefying one. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
The fresh but putrescible liquid is introduced into the six tubes in succession by means of the pipette. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
It is also precipitated by tannin, which combines with it to form an insoluble non-putrescible compound. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
Fed with such air, in the great majority of cases the putrescible liquids remained perfectly sweet after boiling. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
We have now to devise a means of testing the action of such spontaneously purified air upon putrescible infusions. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Before they were known, cleanliness and the destruction of putrescible matter in man's surroundings had, it is true, been urged by sanitary reformers. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
Twenty-seven putrescible infusions, first in vacuo, and afterwards supplied with the most invigorating air, have shown no sign of putrefaction or of life. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
He showed that if a putrescible liquid (for instance, soup) were boiled in a retort so as to destroy all germs, and then the open neck of the retort was kept heated in a flame, so that no floating germs could enter alive, the soup did not putrefy, and no bacteria or other organisms appeared in it. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
5 Thus is formed, containing the latent germ life, no longer in danger from the destructive action of oxygen, thus, I repeat, is formed the septic dust, and we are able to understand what has before seemed so obscure; we can see how putrescible fluids can be inoculated by the dust of the air, and how it is that putrid diseases are permanent in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery] Reference
I use bought and home made worm farms in the back garden here in Perth’s northern suburbs to take care of everything putrescible from our kitchen, and my wife Janny is a rare lass who prepares the greater proportion of everything from basics having now identified myself as a male chauvinistic piglet, meaning we generate a lot of compostibles, from peelings to leftovers and everything in between. From Wordnik.com. [Friday] Reference
putrescible or non-putrescible solid. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
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