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"Mechanical mixture" Quotes from Famous Books

... spirit, if you please—which instituted it, and advanced the following problem: "Nitrous oxide gas is composed of the same elements as ordinary air, with a larger equivalent of oxygen, except it is a chemical compound, not a mechanical mixture, and its anaesthetic effects are said to be due to the excess of oxygen. If this be a fact, then why can you not produce a similar effect by rapid breathing for a minute, more or less, by which a larger ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various

... silicates of soda and potash one precaution is very necessary—viz., that you really have a soluble silicate, and not a mere mechanical mixture of ground flint and soda: this is a very different thing, and one, if it be not carefully guarded against, which will lead to nothing but disappointment. Again, the silicate may be properly made in the first place, but in a long exposure to the atmosphere the soda ...

— Essays in Natural History and Agriculture • Thomas Garnett

... abrasive is the mineral of this name—made up of anhydrous aluminum oxide. Emery is an intimate mechanical mixture of corundum, magnetite, and sometimes spinel. Corundum is a product of contact metamorphism and also a result of direct crystallization from molten magma. Canadian corundum occurs as a constituent of syenite and nepheline-syenite ...

— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith