Before the expansive process took place the gaseous mass, as indicated by its initial temperature and pressure, is endowed with a definite quantity of energy in the form of heat and work energy.
Work is thus done by the expanding gas, and in consequence of this work done, a definite quantity of atmospheric material gains energy of position or potential energy relative to the earth's surface.
When the quantity of an ingredient is too small for practical measurement, merely the name of the ingredient is given and no definite quantity indicated.
If the body requires a certain amount of energy for its needs, this energy, measured in Calories, can be supplied by a definite quantity of combustible food.
The heat unit is not a pound or yard, but a Calorie, or a definite quantity of heat, which, when applied to materials, will produce change of temperature in those materials.
As the body was moved during a definite quantity of time, its quantity can be expressed by some particular quantity of movement--for this is the movement that causes it--and to its suitable quantity of time.
Reservoirs connected by pipes may among them contain a definite quantity of water, and increase in the volume of water in one may be at the expense of all the others.
A definite quantity of moist partially beaten and sized pulp, containing a known weight of air-dry fibre, is mixed with a suitable volume of water at a temperature of 80 deg.
The material is first thoroughly washed in plenty of clean water, and then heated with a definite quantity of water in a steam jacketed copper pan.
In practice the grass is packed tightly into upright stationary digesters and a definite quantity of caustic soda solution added, the amount of chemical used being equal to 15-18 per cent.
As before stated, whenever water evaporates--at no matter what temperature--a definite quantity of heat is necessary to change the water into vapor.
No matter at what temperature water is evaporated, a definite quantity of heat is required to merely change the water into vapor without changing its temperature.
The amount of CO₂ that air contains is not an absolute index of its purity, but it gives a standard under ordinary conditions, makes possible the requirement of a definite quantity of air.
The example of the assignats has been said not to be conclusive, because an assignat only represented land in general, but not a definite quantity of land.
Gold becomes the measure of value by virtue of its relation as exchange value to commodities as exchange values; as standard of price, a definite quantity of gold serves as a unit for other quantities of gold.
In the long period of the life of the earth an equilibrium has been attained between the processes absorbing and evolving oxygen, by which a definite quantity of free oxygen is preserved in the entire mass of the atmosphere.
More than a definite quantity of a substance cannot, at a certain temperature, dissolve in a given quantity of water; the excess does not unite with the water.
But more than a definite quantity of aqueous vapour cannot be introduced into a certain volume of air at a certain temperature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "definite quantity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
