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Example sentences for "equal weight"

  • The fundamental principle of the Sceptical system is especially this, namely, to oppose every argument by one of equal weight, for it seems to us that in this way we finally reach the position where we have no dogmas.

  • The riband of gold being thus prepared uniform, the gold-beater cuts it with shears into small squares of an inch each, having previously divided it with compasses, so that the pieces may be of as equal weight as possible.

  • If by "equal weight" be meant that an examiner is to assign equal marks to candidates who distinguish themselves in Literature, and to candidates who distinguish themselves in Language, it involves gross injustice.

  • If by "equal weight" be meant equality in the proportions of what is prescribed for the study of Literature, and what is prescribed for the study of Language, the provision is stultified by the very constitution of the course.

  • The fruit is weighed before cooking and an equal weight of sugar is used.

  • Take an equal weight of sugar, add a very little water and dissolve.

  • Weight the cleaned berries and take an equal weight of sugar for the sour fruit and crush and beat together until well mixed in the preserving kettle, then boil steadily and gently over the fire until thick, stirring frequently.

  • It represents an equal weight of the root.

  • Black oxide of manganese and hydrate of potassa are mixed, heated to redness in a crucible, and then triturated with an equal weight of pure white clay, and water, q.

  • By saturating a solution of citric acid in an equal weight of water with freshly precipitated moist hydrated ferric hydrate, evaporating at 150 deg.

  • To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

  • A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.

  • To make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.

  • When two Vessels or Chests are like one another, and of equal Weight, being filled with different Metals, to distinguish the one from the other.

  • Put a piece of iron in one scale of a balance, and an equal weight in the other scale; bring a magnet under the scale which contains the iron, and it will draw it down.

  • Then take a bes of the granules, or an equal weight of the leaves, and likewise take another bes in the same way.

  • Crushed pyrites which contains gold is smelted in the same way; it and the stibium should be of equal weight and in truth the gold may be made from them in a number of different ways[30].

  • Moreover, while sometimes there are many methods of smelting the same ore, by which an equal weight of metal is melted out, yet one is done at a greater cost and labour than the others.

  • That a descending weight elevates an equal weight through a distance equal to the descent, and at the same time overcomes the frictional resistance of mechanism, both ascent and descent being measured on perpendicular lines, or 2.

  • Jahn boils this plaster for half an hour with an equal weight of water, keeping it at the same time constantly stirred.

  • One part, by weight, of pure fusel-oil is carefully mixed with an equal weight of sulphuric acid.

  • Chemically pure potassium carbonate was formerly obtained by igniting cream of tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate) with an equal weight of nitre.

  • The salt cake is crushed and mixed with an equal weight of powdered limestone or chalk and half its weight of coal dust.

  • The reaction materials are all gases, and a gas occupies more than one thousand times as much space as an equal weight of a solid or liquid.

  • Well, dear, according to the cook books, preserved fruits are cooked with from three-fourths to an equal weight of sugar, while canned fruits have only sufficient added to sweeten.

  • After weighing the berries she poured them into a saucepan and sprinkled over them an equal weight of sugar.


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