Nitric

Examples

• In the words of Dalton, oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas [as he called nitric oxide], or with twice that po rtion, but with no intermediate portion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But if people require food, guns require powder, and no powder can be made without nitric acid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I went there and found over eighty cells of the well-known Grove nitric-acid battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Still better, however, is nitric acid, which if painted upon a colored spot of this kind first renders it more distinctly yellow, then orange-brown. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• They discovered many new substances, such as alcohol,[334] potash, nitrate of silver, corrosive sublimate, and nitric and sulphuric acid. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the previous century Mayow had obtained nitric oxide by treating iron with nitric ac id. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He also by use of the electric spark caused the oxygen and nitrogen of the air to unite to form nitric acid. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Gun cotton is made by treating raw cotton with nitric acid, to which a proportion of sulphuric acid is added to maintain the strength of the nitric acid and effect a more perfect conversion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I shut my eyes and pulled, but the nitric acid splashed all over my face and ran down my back. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1772 he experimented with nitric oxide. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The ammonia can in turn be oxidized to nitric acid, which is the basis of all explosives. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To transfer the drawing from paper on to the stone, the paper is first sponged with diluted nitric acid, which decomposes the size, and renders it bibulous. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• A third specimen was an impression on paper, _printed from a photograph on metal_, the picture having been etched into the plate by nitric acid, and then printed from. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The battery-room was filled with old record-books and message bundles, and one hundred cells of nitric-acid battery, arranged on a stand in the centre of the room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We have seen that oxygen unites with nitric oxide to form two compounds, and that into the one compound twice as much nitric oxide (by weight) enters as into the other. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If a clean glass rod is dipped into very dilute acid, such as acetic, sulphuric, or nitric acid, and then lightly touched to the tongue, it will taste sour. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Burn stains of nitric acid are permanent. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The nitric acid also removes the alkali from the drawing ink. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• As, however, nitric acid by itself sometimes occasions a good deal of smarting, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The nitric acid employed for the purpose is diluted with about thirty parts of water, and it is poured over the stone whilst it is inclined on one side. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In his analyses of air Dalton made use o f the old nitric oxide method. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The removal of either deep-seated freckles or moles is, as before hinted, not always an easy task, but nitric acid is perhaps about as good an agent for the purpose as any other. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The nitric acid soon began to combine with the plaster in the room below, which was the public receiving-room for messengers and bookkeepers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To make one pound of powder requires one and one-half pounds of nitric acid, so that Germany required for military purposes 2,000,000 pounds of nitric acid per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What is known as French nitric acid, of from 1. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He succeeded to some extent in doing so, by means of diluted nitric acid; and he contrived to obtain about fifty good impressions from the stone. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Nitro-glycerine is made in a somewhat similar way by treating glycerine with nitric and sulphuric acids. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When a solution is mixed with acetic or nitric acid it remains liquid, but still retains its power of cementing; in this state it is called liquid glue. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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