Cavendish
['kæv(ə)ndɪʃ] or ['kævəndɪʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810).
錄入:泰茜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
編輯:沃伦
解釋/意思:
n. tobacco moistened and pressed into quadrangular cakes.
手打:威利
例句/造句/用法:
- I had imagined that we were bound for Baker Street, but Holmes stopped the cab at the corner of Cavendish Square. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Getting on The newly married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London, were received by the Chief Butler. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Cavendish obtained nitrogen from air by using nitric oxide to remove the oxygen, and found that air consists of about seventy-nine per cent nitrogen and about twenty-one per cent oxygen. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Harley Street, Cavendish Square, was more than aware of Mr and Mrs Merdle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- At the sa me time other ranks of society are represented in the history of science by Boyle, Cavendish, Lavoisier. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Cavendish had shown, and Dalton himself later prove d, that common air, wherever examined, contains oxygen and nitrogen in fairly co nstant proportions. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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