Unites

Examples

• The phosphorus in burning unites with the oxygen of the air and hence the gas that remains in the jar is chiefly nitrogen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This heating or vulcanizing process fixes the elasticity of the rubber, increases its strength enormously and unites the parts in such a way as to make the shoe practically one piece. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Wood and coal, and in fact all animal and vegetable matter, contain carbon, and when these substances burn or decay, the carbon in them unites with oxygen and forms carbon dioxide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• 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.
• 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.
• When carbon unites chemically with oxygen, it is an exothermic reaction that gives off heat as correlated energy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Her lord being cherubic, she was necessarily majestic, according to the principle which matrimonially unites contrasts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When the air is dry, iron does not unite with oxygen, but when moisture is present in the air, the iron unites with the oxygen and turns into iron rust. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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