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Example sentences for "carbonaceous matter"

  • Precisely the same illustration would apply to a piece of wood, except that the cell-wall would be carbonaceous matter instead of carbonate of lime.

  • Their cells and canals are rounded, and have smooth walls, which are occasionally lined with films apparently of carbonaceous matter.

  • If a substance so essential to plants as carbonaceous matter cannot be introduced except in a state of solution into their organs, he very justly concludes that other less essential bodies must be in the same case.

  • Pieces of lignite occur imbedded in it, and it is traversed by fibrous ramifications of carbonaceous matter.

  • Black marbles owe their colour to the presence of very minute particles of carbonaceous matter, in some cases at any rate; and they may either be metamorphic, or they may be charged with minute fossils such as Foraminifera (e.

  • In the great majority of cases where rocks are found to contain carbon or carbonaceous matter, it can be stated with certainty that this substance is of organic origin, though it is not necessarily derived from vegetables.

  • They want, however, any trace of carbonaceous matter, and seem rather to be grooves or marks cut in clay by the limbs or tails of some aquatic animal, and afterwards filled up and preserved by succeeding deposits.

  • The presence or absence of carbonaceous matter.

  • The rape-cake contains about 5 per cent of nitrogen, and is also rich in minerals and carbonaceous matter.

  • For instance, there is a large amount of carbonaceous matter in the manure of animals, which, for some crops, is not without value, but which is not here taken into account.

  • The ores of iron, which are all oxides, are reduced by exposing them to the action of carbonaceous matter, at a high temperature.

  • Thus a furnace in which a fire of carbonaceous matter is kept up and urged to the highest possible degree of intensity by blowing machines, is necessary.

  • Over all, a thicker layer of carbonaceous matter is laid, to prevent oxidizement of the brass.

  • A small portion of carbonaceous matter remains in the retort, while much olefiant gas is formed, possessing a superior illuminating power to common coal gas, and entirely free from sulphureous impregnation.

  • It produces very little dust in the mine, and hardly soils the fingers with carbonaceous matter.

  • The Utica shale is the lowest of these great sheets of carbonaceous matter, and that supplies the hydro-carbon gases and liquids which issue from the earth at Collingwood, Canada, and in the valley of the Cumberland.

  • A line of perennial oil and gas springs marks the outcrop of every great stratum of carbonaceous matter in the country.

  • In the Laurentian rocks of Canada are large accumulations of carbonaceous matter, all of which is graphite, and that which is universally conceded to be derived from plant-tissue.

  • The blacks and browns were mixtures of carbonaceous matter, with the ores of iron or manganese.


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