Decompose

Examples

• The principle employed in the Edison electrolytic meter is that which exemplifies the power of electricity to decompose a chemical substance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Acid sulphuric, a sufficient quantity to decompose the ammonia fluoride and making the mixture of a semi-fluid consistency. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The ability of the electric current to decompose a liquid and to deposit a metal constituent has practically revolutionized the process of printing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I have heard that chymists can by their art decompose stone and wood, extracting a considerable quantity of water from the one and air from the other. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I did not know that it would decompose by water. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If two dissimilar metals could be decomposed and power at the same time produced they contended that practical work might be done with the force. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Newton in the next century, with the prism, decomposed light, and in a darkened chamber reproduced all the colours and tints of the rainbow. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This dissolves in water, but when boiled in large quantities of the same it is decomposed into glycerine and boracic acid. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Most fats contain a substance of an acid nature, and are decomposed by the action of bases such as caustic soda and caustic potash. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Some of the compounds formed by the sulphurous acid bleaching process are gradually decomposed by sunlight, and in consequence the original color is in time partially restored. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But the water decomposed, and the incurable defect was still there. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In the following year Davy reported other chemical changes produced by electricity; he had succeeded in decomposing the fixed alkalis and disc overing the elements potassium and sodium. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was discovered in 1836 by Edmond Davy, who produced carburet of potassium, and evolved acetylene gas therefrom by decomposing it with water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They are unstable compounds, decomposing readily, and furnish the acrid products which make strong butter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if they were fast decomposing into rags again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Aluminum was first separated in 1828 by Wohler, by decomposing the chloride by means of potassium. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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.

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