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It was an astonishing amalgam.
Proportion of smelted gold to amalgam, one-fifth.
The English people are an amalgam of many distinct strains.
Of the numerous remedies proposed the most efficacious is perhaps sodium amalgam.
All amalgams are softened by heat, and hardened by cold.
This amalgam is soft and can be kneaded between the fingers.
It is folly to expect to form an amalgam of these immiscible elements.
It was an amalgam of physical yearning, wounded vanity and resentment of contempt.
How, then, are we to class this strange amalgam of criticism and credulity?
One physical type has mingled with another, inducing strange amalgams and novelties.
In extreme cases, the gold may weigh but one-fifth of the amalgam treated.
It is the curious and inextricable amalgam of the two that constitutes the embarrassment.
All these amalgams I found might be preserved for a considerable period under naphtha.
The shaking should be continued until it is certain that the amalgam has solidified.
After some days the earthy materials are washed away and the heavier amalgam is recovered.
An amalgam is a pasty mixture of mercury with other substances (properly with a metal).
Clean your amalgam and squeeze it as hard as possible through strong calico or chamois leather.
Follow the amalgam with a swab, and rub the alloy well into the plate.
Mercury dissolves gold rapidly at ordinary temperatures, the amalgam being solid, pasty or liquid.
Employed in thermometers and barometers, silvering mirrors, and in making amalgams for dental work.
The remaining matter is amalgam, of the color of silver, and the consistency of mush.
An amalgam of these contrasted elements makes up the atrocious and formidable temperament of our enemy.
After the surfaces to be soldered have been well cleaned, a layer of lead amalgam is applied.
The final step is reached when the amalgam is retorted and melted in a graphite crucible.
Rocks that gave safe foothold an hour earlier were now glazed with an amalgam of sleet and snow.
No wells are used, the amalgam traps saving any quicksilver which may leach off the plates.
The leather rubber should be thinly smeared with lard and the powdered amalgam rubbed on it.
Each side in a lawsuit took whatever amalgam of French and English codes was best for its own argument.
The amalgam was quickly stowed in the war-bags, Nomad replaced his saddle-blanket, and the little party mounted.
After some hours place the ball of amalgam in a piece of strong new calico and squeeze out any surplus mercury.
After the amalgam has hardened the thin plate of it may be reinforced by pouring on molten type metal.
Persons armed with various amalgams on the ends of sticks, others with witch-hazel twigs, have searched for this specie.
The nitric acid will attack the copper, and leave the quicksilver as an amalgam on the surface of the copper.
Who knows what shall be the amalgam, some day to be recast by the master hand of a new Turgenev?...
For use, rub up the amalgam with a little white of egg and brush like a varnish on the plaster articles.
These balls of amalgam are placed in iron retorts, and the mercury driven off by heat and condensed again in water.
Quicksilver is then added, in small quantities at a time, and crudely mixed in, until the whole mass forms an amalgam.
If the metal to be cleansed is gold, you will see a pasty mass or amalgam, as it is called, of a yellowish tinge.
This amalgam is prepared by first melting the zinc and tin in a crucible and adding the quicksilver previously heated.
Gold and quicksilver are chums, and the minute they get together they join to form a mixture which is called an amalgam.
The alkaline amalgams may, therefore, serve as a source of nascent hydrogen in presence of water, giving rise to an action less energetic, and often more advantageous, than that of the alkaline metals alone.
The efficacy of mechanical force to overcome feeble chemical affinities is strikingly illustrated by the amalgam of tin, out of which nearly the whole of the mercury is driven by long continued pressure.
A potassium-mercury amalgam electrode created a powerful cell with zinc as the positive electrode, establishing both the metallic nature of potassium and the fact that it is the most negative of all metals.
The ordinary methods of separating silver from its ores are based either upon forming an amalgam of the metal with the mercury, or in bringing it into combination with lead, and afterwards separating it.
Now, you can destroy that mere physical contact without hurting the individual elements, and this community of interest is an amalgam; you can break it up without hurting any one of the single interests combined.
The impurities floating on the surface are removed, and when the temperature is sufficiently lowered this amalgam is slowly poured into the vessels to be tinned, which have been previously well cleaned and slightly heated.
For years this was attempted and all attempts to apply the well known methods of reduction (addition of hydrogen) in organic chemistry, such as treatment with tin and acid, sodium amalgam, etc., were unsuccessful.
Secondly, a number of persons so purely professional, and therefore so very much alike in their habits, tone of thinking, and expression, can scarcely be expected to make up that complex amalgam so indispensable to pleasant society.
A chemical combination has done something which I cannot scientifically describe, but its molecules have become intimate with one another and have practically united, whereas an amalgam has a mere physical union created by pressure from without.
Much of the quicksilver drips through the canvas back into the pans, and the residue, silver mixed with quicksilver, makes a cold, heavy, white paste called "amalgam," which is carried off in jars to the retorts.
If this tiny amalgam of former enemies was a good example, it wouldn't be too long before he and Mary and the rest of humanity would be living on the surface like rational human beings instead of blindly hating moles.
A few hours later, when they had cleaned up and retorted the amalgam he came galloping up again on the old mule to stop proceedings, as they got very little of value from the amalgam, and that mostly silver.
This plate turns between two supports, and near its upper and lower edges are two pairs of cushions, usually made of leather, stuffed with horse-hair and coated with a mixture of zinc, tin, and mercury, called an amalgam.
Formerly the amalgam cleaning room was sacred to the mill manager, and on announcing to that official the new instructions he at once tendered his resignation in a tone of offended dignity, immediately followed by that of the mine manager.
The ancient metallic mirrors, which were in use before the present mirrors, or the discovery of glass, and the mode of applying to its surface an amalgam of tin, were composed of two parts of copper and one part of tin.
No tinned iron or copper vessel should be used for holding or panning out amalgam, or dirt containing amalgam; since quicksilver forms an amalgam with tin and copper, and will stick to the sides of a tinned or copper pan.
An analogous separation takes place in the tinning of mirrors; for on loading them with the weights, a liquid amalgam of tin is squeezed out, while another amalgam remains in a solid form composed of tin and mercury in uniform atomic proportions.
The silver and mercury combine, forming an amalgam, which, having been put into a leather sack, a part of the latter is separated from the rest by filtration, still leaving six parts of this metal to one of the silver.
Or, if you wish to make the experiment on a smaller scale, pour about an ounce of the above liquid into a wine-glass, into which insert a piece of soft amalgam of silver, the size of a pea, and the effect required will immediately be produced.
An ounce of salt will be dissolved in, and nearly equally diffused through, a pint of water; but if an ounce of gold be thrown into a pint of quicksilver, it will, after forming an amalgam with the quicksilver, remain at the bottom.
I did not examine it at the time, but I observed afterwards that there is no charge for driving off the mercury of the amalgam, and leaving the pure silver, which is worth eight dollars and fifty cents the mark.
Good breeding, she knew, made a fair amalgam of the most heterogeneous elements, but she gave a short sigh when they were all seated and each began talking rapidly to his neighbor, Jane to Larry Kane, Nina to Phil and herself to Coley.
Objects made of copper when rubbed with mercury become covered with a white coating of that metal, which slowly forms an amalgam; silver acts in the same way, but more slowly, and platinum combines with mercury with still greater difficulty.
The large one was carried over to the living room, and when it was brought in and hung against the wall John's face lighted up, when they told him of the work required to turn out the glass, and to make the amalgam.
The amalgam sinks to the bottom, and the mud and water are let off, by an aperture in the lower part of the well, into a smaller well below, lined with a raw-hide, where one man carries on the washing with his feet.
It is very true that a glass filled with that metal will form a very good mirror; but I am of opinion that this may have been long known, before people thought of making an amalgam of tin and quicksilver in order to cover the backs of mirrors.
Many are not able to pay for gold, but they want their teeth filled and saved, and it is expected that we will do it properly and with the right kind of material; thus it is our duty in such cases to use more tin and less amalgam.
The fifth act, an amalgam of what is worst and best in the poem, often seems divided from it in tone, style and direction, and is more like a symbolic or mythical gloss upon the first three acts than a contribution to the growth of the general story.