Constituents

Examples

• Chemical analysis shows oleomargarine to have substantially the same constituents and in almost the identical proportions of pure butter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We may note here briefly the very various nature of the constituents of the British Empire in 1914. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Of all the vast group of salts, the most abundant as well as the most important is common salt, known technically as sodium chloride because of its two constituents, sodium and chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• An electric current can separate a liquid into some of its various constituents and to deposit one of the metal constituents on the negative electrode. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Then this remarkable result came out, that however much a plant may otherwise differ from an animal, yet, in essential constituents the cellular constructure of animal and plant is the same. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It fell apart into its main constituents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now I have time to think of it, he never saw one of his constituents in all his days, until we saw them together! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As a legislator, he affords a bright example of a genius soaring above corruption, and continually aiming at the happiness of his constituents. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The sunlight separates silver chloride into its constituents, silver and chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No genuine politician ever treats his constituents as reasoning animals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Racemic acid, however, which is identical with tartaric acid in i ts chemical constituents, is optically inactive, rotating the plane of polarized light n either to the right nor the left. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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