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Example sentences for "pellicle"

Lexicographically close words:
pelisses; pellagra; pellet; pellets; pellibus; pellicles; pellmell; pellucid; pellucida; pelo
  1. On the black, liquid honey a wrinkled pellicle is floating; and on this pellicle, motionless, is a yellow louse.

  2. The pellicle is the empty envelope of the Anthophora's egg; the louse is a Meloe-larva.

  3. This was accomplished by placing a thin slice of the Sclerotium in a drop of water under a glass slide, surrounded by a pellicle of air, and luted to prevent evaporation and external influences.

  4. Guadeloupe coffee is distinguishable by its green, long, and slightly thick bean, covered by a pellicle of whitish silvery color, which separates from the bean in the roast.

  5. They are usually of a roundish oval shape, convex on the outside, flat inside, marked longitudinally in the center of the flat side with a deep incision, and wrapped in the thin pellicle known as the silver skin.

  6. SCUM, floating islands of bacteria, an interrupted pellicle or bacteria membrane.

  7. The pellicle prevents imbibition, diffusion, and the consequent disintegration.

  8. A thin pellicle of India-rubber, for example, surrounding a pea keeps it hard in boiling water for a time sufficient to reduce an uncovered pea to a pulp.

  9. Something like a pellicle appears to be formed around the drops, the rupture of which is immediately followed by the coalescence of the globules into one.

  10. This pellicle consists of shreds of dry gelatin containing the sensitive salts.

  11. Evaporate till a pellicle forms, then stir constantly, continuing the heat till the salt granulates.

  12. The kisteine remains on the surface for several days; the urine then becomes turbid, and small opaque masses become detached from the kisteine and fall to the bottom of the fluid and the pellicle soon becomes destroyed.

  13. The essential character of the urine of pregnancy, then, is the presence of the kisteine; and the characters of the pellicle are so peculiar that it is impossible to mistake it for anything else.

  14. Nauche has found that the urine of pregnant women contains a particular substance, which, when the urine is allowed to stand separates and forms a pellicle on the surface.

  15. Its surface is smoother than in the foregoing species, being almost polished, and the pellicle of the cap is usually noticeably thinner.

  16. Contrary to the habits of all other insects, there yet remains a pellicle that has to be shed, covering every part of the body.

  17. The crystals are purified by washing with cold distilled water, solution in boiling water, and evaporating the solution until a pellicle forms; crystals of pure camphoric acid are formed as the liquid cools.

  18. Spallanzani could only withdraw five or six grains of the pellicle of a medusa weighing fifty ounces.

  19. When the insect wishes to remove the thin membranous pellicle which envelopes the antennae, it lays these organs in the notch, draws them through, and thus easily strips off the pellicle.

  20. But this, so far from being a defect in the glutinous pellicle of the bedeguar fly, is, as we shall presently see, of great utility.

  21. As in the former case, also, each of these eggs becomes (as we may suppose) surrounded with the sap of the rose, enclosed in a pellicle of gluten.

  22. Next she spreads over her belly a pellicle of the same material, and ascends to the surface.

  23. Heckel has analyzed the seeds and found a resin which he calls pepo-resina; it exists in the greenish pellicle that envelopes the embryo and appears to be the active principle of the seeds.

  24. Fruit, 2 seeds covered by the pellicle of the ovary.

  25. The pellicle loosened on this occasion was fastened again.

  26. Examine it from time to time, by placing a strong light behind the neck of the bottle; and if any pellicle appears about it, it must be boiled up again with a few peppercorns.

  27. Its presence may easily be ascertained by suffering a little wine to stand in a glass for two or three days; when the lime, held in solution, will appear on the surface in the form of a thin pellicle or crust.

  28. A pellicle will be formed on the surface, beneath which the vinegar acquires strength: it must be kept standing for a month or two, and then put into a cask.

  29. A pellicle or skin is formed on the surface, beneath which the vinegar acquires strength.

  30. The pellicle was found to be composed of Bacteria, and in the fluid there were multitudes of medium-size Bacteria and Vibriones, with here and there a small Torula cell.

  31. Portions of the pellicle were found to be made up by aggregations of Bacteria, Vibriones, and an abundance of Leptothrix filaments.

  32. Cheese*, showed a well-marked pellicle on its surface in twenty-four hours.

  33. On microscopical examination, a portion of the pellicle was seen to consist of multitudes of Bacteria, Vibriones, and jointed Leptothrix filaments.

  34. On examination, the fluid and the pellicle were found to contain an abundance of Bacteria, Vibriones and Leptothrix filaments.

  35. In seventy-two hours the turbidity was well marked, and there was a very thin pellicle on the surface.

  36. The pellicle on the surface was very thin, and composed only of a single layer of Bacteria.

  37. During the next few days the old pellicle fell to the bottom, and a new one formed.

  38. When examined microscopically the fluid was found to contain multitudes of very active Bacteria, and the pellicle was also composed of an aggregation of Bacteria.

  39. Portions of the thick pellicle were found, on microscopical examination, to be made up of Bacteria, Vibriones, and an abundance of long, interlaced Leptothrix filaments.

  40. A thick diphtheritic pellicle occurred upon the under surface of each eyelid on the left side, with great tumefaction of both lids, gangrene of the cornea, and destruction of the eye.

  41. On inspecting the fauces to discover the cause we observe a pellicle forming over the tonsils and perhaps other portions of the faucial surface.

  42. Amnios immediately envelops the foetus, the pellicle seems most analogous to it, and the shell to the Chorion.

  43. It does not seem improbable, that the pellicle we have been speaking of is analogous to that which, in addition to the outer skin, incloses the limbs of Lepidoptera, &c.

  44. The cap was covered with a sticky, skin-like layer, called the pellicle or cuticle, both terms having the same meaning.

  45. Finally, the pellicle was put in contact with the upper conductor, L, which terminated in a ball and was connected with the other pole of the induction coil.

  46. The disk, P, being metallic and connected with one of the poles, there was placed upon it a thin ebonite plate of the same dimensions as the photographic one, and then the latter with the sensitized pellicle upward.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pellicle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amnion; coat; coating; collop; covering; cut; deal; disk; eardrum; enamel; facing; film; flap; foil; fold; fur; lacquer; lap; leaf; membrane; paint; pane; panel; patina; peel; pellicle; plait; plank; plate; plating; pleura; ply; plywood; rasher; scale; scum; sheet; skin; slab; slat; slice; table; tablet; tympanum; varnish; veneer; wafer