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Example sentences for "chemists"

Lexicographically close words:
chemises; chemisette; chemism; chemist; chemistry; chemotactic; chemotherapy; chenar; chenille; cheque
  1. And she has one or two damned good analytical chemists with a damned good laboratory on board her, too.

  2. Chemists enunciate the result of all the experiments which prove this, by stating that chalk is almost wholly composed of "carbonate of lime.

  3. And, before long, the researches of chemists gradually led up to the conception of the fundamental unity of their composition.

  4. While his chemists labored away under the young inventor's supervision, everything else had been made ready.

  5. Illustration: His Chemists Worked Away] Three days later the stuff had cooled sufficiently for an inspection to be made.

  6. Dalton, one of the most distinguished chemists of any age or country, was then President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and lived and received pupils in the rooms of the Society's house.

  7. Taking the foregoing facts, well known to chemists and engineers, as the basis of his operations, the writer perceived that all substances likely to give trouble by deposition would be precipitated at a temperature of about 250° F.

  8. We are still ignorant of the source of animal heat, though half a century ago the chemists thought they had proved it was owing to a sort of combustion of the carbon of the blood.

  9. The chemists of this quarter are only licensed cutthroats; but I am going this evening to see one of my clients who is a chemist, and he will deal honestly with me.

  10. Send to Eimer and Amend, 205 Third avenue, New York City, for a catalogue and price list of chemicals and chemical apparatus as they sell everything used by chemists and electrochemists.

  11. It was not until well on in the nineteenth century that the chemists and physicists of modern times realized the truth of this great principle.

  12. The brains of our chemists and technicians are supplying the missing imports, and will continue to do so.

  13. American chemists are also extracting potash (by the Cottrell process) from the dust of cement-kilns and blast-furnaces.

  14. Mrs. Inglethorp always had an extra large amount of medicine made up at a time, as she dealt with Coot's, the Cash Chemists in Tadminster.

  15. He suddenly produced a small cardboard box, such as chemists use for powders.

  16. Chemists may be able to explain, but simple woman, unversed in the mysteries of chemistry, cannot.

  17. Chemists and druggists are liable to severe penalties if they are found supplying cocculus indicus, or any extract of the same, to brewers or publicans.

  18. Chemists have distinguished fermentation into different varieties, which, in general, are named after the more important products of its action.

  19. A name given by the older chemists to several black powders on account of their colour, and still occasionally employed in medical works.

  20. These compounds are what chemists call double salts; for instance, cyanide of potassium is simply a compound of potassium and cyanogen; but argento-cyanide of potassium is cyanide of silver united with cyanide of potassium.

  21. By chemists the term is applied to a grouping of symbols, expressing the composition of a body; thus, HCl (standing for 1 atom of hydrogen united to 1 atom of chlorine) is the formula for hydrochloric acid.

  22. Chevreul and other chemists have shown, however, that Fourcroy's extractive is not a chemical compound but a heterogeneous mixture, varying in composition with the plant from which it is obtained.

  23. A vessel used by metallurgists and chemists for holding substances whilst they are exposed to a high temperature.

  24. This term was applied by the older chemists to various substances to which a vitreous appearance has been given by heat.

  25. Some chemists merely heat the butter on a water bath.

  26. But I do not regard the present arrangement as unalterable, and if you think the early chemists and the later chemists would do better in two separate groups, the matter is quite open to consideration.

  27. But it seems to me that there must be three or four Huxleys (free or in combination, as the chemists say) about the premises.

  28. Much speculation has taken place as to the cause of this action which is so specific in its character, and from Sir Humphrey Davy down to the present time, many chemists and agriculturists have considered the matter.

  29. The term humus is generic, and applied by chemists to a rather numerous group of substances, very closely allied in their properties, several of which are generally present in all fertile soils.

  30. It is a substance of very complicated composition, and chemists are not agreed as to the formula by which its constitution is to be expressed, a difficulty which occurs also with most of the other nitrogenous compounds.

  31. The analyses of different chemists give rather discordant results, but we have given those which appear most trustworthy-- From Peas.

  32. Chemists are not entirely at one as to whether nitric acid is directly absorbed by the plant, or is first converted into ammonia.

  33. It has long been known to chemists that clay has a tendency to absorb a small proportion of ammonia, and even when brought up from a great depth frequently contains that substance.

  34. In every attack there were "duds" or unexploded shell, which the chemists of the Allies analyzed.

  35. Then America took a hand in the war and our chemists added their help, while our factories turned out steady streams of shell.

  36. Our chemists were not afraid to be pitted against the German chemists and the factories of the Allies were more than a match for those of the Central Powers.

  37. And so German chemists were set to work devising all sorts of fiendish schemes for poisoning, choking, or merely annoying their opponents.

  38. No sooner had the Germans launched their first attack than the British and French chemists began to pay back the Hun in kind.

  39. His discoveries anticipated much that has brought fame and fortune to chemists since, yet so fearful of danger was he that his work was carefully concealed.

  40. A great line of physicists and chemists began to appear.

  41. In my first head I shall address myself first to the Chemists of this Island, and finish by a distinct allusion to the students and practitioners in the science of Astronomy.

  42. I have now gone through the first part of my first head, and I should have been happy if I could have made an exception in the general conduct of the Chemists of this island.

  43. Berthollet and other chemists also showed that affinity is much conditioned by temperature; that is, that two substances which show no tendency towards chemical union at a low temperature may combine when the temperature is raised.

  44. Analyses of the oxalates of potash, published about the same time by Wollaston, afforded another illustration of the law of multiple proportions, and drew the attention of chemists to Dalton's theory.

  45. The mental surroundings of the chemists of that age did not allow them fully to appreciate the work of Avogadro.

  46. It was not until the experimental work of Lavoisier became generally known that chemists were convinced of these truths.

  47. The value of Lavoisier's work now began to be recognized by his fellow-chemists in France.

  48. The antiphlogistic chemists regarded fixed air as composed of carbon and dephlogisticated air; the phlogisteans said it was a substance highly charged with phlogiston.

  49. Another point which we notice in the life-work of these two chemists is their untiring labour.

  50. In the year 1821, several chemists isolated from coffee a bitter principle, of peculiar properties, which was named caffein.

  51. In 1822, two other chemists succeeded in isolating the same principle, in a pure condition, and found it to be a colorless, oily liquid, of which two to eight per cent is found in all tobacco.

  52. John Tyndall, in a book published in 1880, says, that the emission theory "held its ground until quite recently among the chemists of our own day.

  53. When the chemists of a hundred years ago learned of the atomic hypothesis, it became necessary to adopt it, in order to insure more rapid progress in chemistry.

  54. Many years later the chemists and physiologists learned to understand the dangerous nature of the tobacco poison.

  55. In the same way, the chemists teach us that water consists of two elements, each of which by itself does not make any water, while their compound makes pure water.

  56. One of America's most distinguished philosophical chemists settled down to the humble but very essential problem of making mixed flours rise and bake with a crust--and solved it.


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