Decomposed

Examples

• If two dissimilar metals could be decomposed and power at the same time produced they contended that practical work might be done with the force. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Newton in the next century, with the prism, decomposed light, and in a darkened chamber reproduced all the colours and tints of the rainbow. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This dissolves in water, but when boiled in large quantities of the same it is decomposed into glycerine and boracic acid. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Most fats contain a substance of an acid nature, and are decomposed by the action of bases such as caustic soda and caustic potash. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Some of the compounds formed by the sulphurous acid bleaching process are gradually decomposed by sunlight, and in consequence the original color is in time partially restored. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But the water decomposed, and the incurable defect was still there. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The intensely hot steam is thus decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, and the oxygen unites with the carbon of the coal to form carbonic oxide gas. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The baking soda is then heated and decomposed into washing soda or the soda of commerce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In 1800 Nicholson and Carlisle decomposed water by passing the electric current through the same; Ritter decomposed copper sulphate, and Davy decomposed the alkalies, potash and soda. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Ah, what has decomposed you, ma'am? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The decomposed felspar of some varieties of granite yields the kaolin used in porcelain manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It has, however, for the most parts been superseded by the process patented by Hall, April 2, 1889, No. 400,766, in which alumina dissolved in fused cryolite is electrically decomposed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He discovered that potash and soda can be decomposed, with the resultant metals of potassium and sodium. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For it is also true that this remarkable compound, cyanamid, which is a food for plants, can be decomposed by high-steam pressure into the purest ammonia gas. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For instance eggs were beautifully preserved, and steak immersed in the solution did not become either mouldy or decomposed, but on the contrary appeared to retain its flavor. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

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