Chemicals

Examples

• George Pullman, who then had a small shop at Detroit and was working on his sleeping-car, made Edison a lot of wooden apparatus for his chemicals, to the boy's delight. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And so much harm has been done by food preservatives that the pure food laws require that cans and bottles contain a labeled statement of the kind and quantity of chemicals used. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Edison's chief chemist says: We left no stone unturned to find a way of making those chemicals so that they would give the highest results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That let all the fumes and chemicals out and overcame the firemen; and there was the devil to pay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Medieval Europe used various forms of water pumps, and it was not until the opening of the nineteenth century that chemicals were used to combat fire. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Without his scrapbooks, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Rain water, coming as it does from the clouds, is free from the chemicals gathered by ground water, and is hence practically pure. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Tons of chemicals and hundreds of pine trees are used yearly in the making of matches, and many hundreds of millions of them are daily consumed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Benzoate of soda, and salicylic acid are the chemicals most widely employed for this purpose, with coal-tar dyes to simulate the natural color of the fruit. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Objects, such as furniture, which cannot be boiled, are disinfected by the use of any one of several chemicals, such as sulphur, carbolic acid, chloride of lime, corrosive sublimate, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Many other chemicals can be used, however, for making the fluorescing screen, such as the sulphides of calcium, barium and strontium. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The evil results of an accident with acid can be lessened if we know just what to do and do it quickly, but for this we must have a knowledge of bases, the second group of chemicals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Thus supporting himself, he felt entitled to spend any other profit left over on chemicals and apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They contained the chemicals with which he was constantly experimenting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the chemicals which destroy bacteria frequently injure the consumer as well. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• After the fabric has been burned away, there remains a coarse gauze mantle of the desired chemicals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The process depends upon the property possessed by bichromate of potassium, and other chemicals, of rendering insoluble under the action of light, gelatine or some similar substance. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The manufacture of soap, glass, bleaching powders, baking powders, washing soda, and other chemicals depends on salt, and it is for these that the salt beds are mined. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This cell consists of a zinc cup, within which is a carbon rod; the space between the cup and rod is packed with a moist paste containing certain chemicals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The spoiling of meats and soups, and the souring of milk and preserves, are due to germs which, like those producing disease, can be destroyed by heat and by chemicals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It must first be converted into some combination with other chemicals, as a solid or liquid, which can be absorbed by the plant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Tons of Chemicals, Hundreds of Pine Trees Yearly Made into Matches. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We carried on the experiments with the two chemicals together. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• New metals, chemicals, and elements had become available in large numbers, gases had been liquefied and solidified, and the range of useful heat and cold indefinitely extended. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When disease germs are within the body, the problem is far from simple, because chemicals which would effectively destroy the germs would be fatal to life itself. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Oftentimes the brine is relieved of impurities through the action of certain chemicals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Man's knowledge of chemicals and their effect on each other has enabled him to overcome this difficulty and, at the same time, to retain the leavening effect of the baking soda. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Nothing could be more erroneous, nor more amusing to the physicist, since no chemicals ever come in contact with either the water or the ice. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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