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Example sentences for "asbestus"

Lexicographically close words:
asafetida; asafoetida; asan; asbestos; ascarides; ascend; ascendancy; ascendant; ascendants
  1. Stones also differ in their weight or gravity: for instance, some of the asbestus kind are lighter than water.

  2. Pliny, the Roman naturalist, says he has seen napkins of asbestus taken soiled from the table after a feast, which were thrown into the fire, and by that means better scoured than if they had been washed with water.

  3. The substances under examination are placed between two asbestus stoppers in a tube, one end of which tapers to a point, and a current of pure hydrogen conducted over them.

  4. The delivery-tube I connects with a second tube H, filled with asbestus or cotton; this is united by means of a cork with a third tube C, made of Bohemian glass.

  5. To this end, the fluid supposed to contain phosphorus is mixed with perfectly pure alcohol, and the mixture placed in a small spirit-lamp provided with a very loose asbestus wick.

  6. Evaporate the water by heating the dish over asbestus paper, wire gauze, or sand, in an iron plate (Fig.

  7. On breaking the connexion with the battery, the portions of asbestus were lifted out, and the drops hanging at the ends allowed to fall each into its respective vessel.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asbestus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.