Floats

Examples

• Sometimes soap refuses to form a lather and instead cakes and floats as a scum on the top of the water; this is not the fault of the soap but of the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Boil lightly for fifteen minutes, allow to cool, and then skim off the wax which floats on the surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The ball is set in a basin of mercury, where it floats. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Several attempts have been made to remedy this defect, and to produce what is called feathering floats, every one of which will act against the water at right angles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Diggory, having returned to the brink of the pool, observed that the small upper hatches or floats were withdrawn. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The great lantern, Fig. 45, is carried by a vertical shaft, which terminates at its lower end in a hollow drum, which latter floats in a bath of mercury. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Langley' s method of launching had been proved practical, but Curtiss finally deci ded to start from the water, and accordingly fitted the aeroplane with hydroae roplane floats. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But the ice is lighter than water and floats on top, and animals in the water beneath are as free to live and swim as they were in the warm sunny days of summer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• One has but to remember that bottles of water burst when they freeze, and that ice floats on water like wood, to know that water expands on freezing or on solidifying. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In No. 11 a layer of liquid air on water at first floats because it is lighter than water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Some hazy idea that if affairs could remain thus for a long time it would be a respectable change, floats in her mind. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The mechanism required for making this adjustment is, however, liable to get out of order, and the introduction of vertically acting floats has consequently been very limited. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The depths of the stars and the minutest mote that floats in the sun beam reflect the glory of those inventions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To facilitate the free and sensitive adjustment of this great mirror its base floats in a reservoir of mercury. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Proud Templar, said the King, thou canst not--look up, and behold the Royal Standard of England floats over thy towers instead of thy Temple banner! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The particular style of percolator shown in Fig. 9 has no valves or floats or traps that continually get out of order and that make the cleaning of a percolator so disagreeable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The object he had expected to take in tow, floats by, and his own boat tows him dead, to where we found him, all entangled in his own line. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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