Elasticity

Examples

• It was metal, ‘elastic metal,’ as Daniel Webster termed it, that could be wound round the finger, or tied into a knot, and which preserved its elasticity like steel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One of Boyle's critics, a professor at Louvain, while admitting that air had weight and elasticity, denie d that these were sufficient to account for the results ascribed to them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Now the balance spring of a watch is made from steel, and is carefully tempered in order to obtain its highest elasticity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By that means, the gas is generated in a closed vessel, and forces itself into the water by its own elasticity. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Sir,' rejoined Mrs. Sparsit, 'there was wont to be an elasticity in you which I sadly miss. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It lies near the pliable elasticity by which some persons take on the color of their surroundings while retaining their own bent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The troubles of a family, the business of making money, the demands of a profession destroy the elasticity of the mind. Plato. The Republic.
• 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.
• In it is coiled the mainspring--a strip of steel about twenty-three inches long, which is carefully tempered to insure elasticity and pull. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mere amassing of information apart from the direct interests of life makes mind wooden; elasticity disappears. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She returned to town in a glow of rejuvenation, conscious of a clearer colour in her cheeks, a fresh elasticity in her muscles. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He felt able to prove that the elasticity of the air could under circumstances do far more than sustain t wenty-nine or thirty inches of mercury. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There is an energy, an elasticity in his mind, which enables him to seize on and analyze all questions, pushing them to their legitimate cons equences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• First, it enlarges the balance wheel; second, it increases the length of the spring; third, it reduces the elasticity of the spring. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These frames have very little elasticity, and we take it as an historical commonplace that sooner or later a revolution must come to burst the frame apart. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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