Germs

Examples

• Contaminated water is made safe by boiling for a few minutes, because the strong heat destroys the disease-producing germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As boracic acid is but slightly soluble in water and other common solvents this combination with glycerine--which is also a useful agent in arresting the growth of germs--is peculiarly valuable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The hands may gather germs from any substances or objects with which they come in contact; hence the hands should be washed with soap and water, and especially before eating. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Chloride of lime when exposed to the air and moisture slowly gives off chlorine, and can be used as a disinfectant because the gas thus set free attacks germs and destroys them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The whole drift towards industrial training in schools has the germs of disaster within it--a preoccupation with the technique of a career. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• One of the best methods of destroying germs is to subject them to intense heat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This incubator contains the germs of modern water heaters. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Henle, a German physiologist, as early as 1840, maintained the doctrine of _contagium vivum_, or contagion by the transmission of living germs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The heat of boiling destroys animal and vegetable germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Nature offers simply the germs which education is to develop and perfect. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Out of the knowledge of disease germs has grown the great era of antiseptic surgery, inaugurated by Sir Joseph Lister, about 1865. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• History is silent as to whether Mr. Puckle's patent was put in practice, but it contained the germs of some modern inventions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Without any doubt socialism has within it the germs of that great bureaucratic tyranny which Chesterton and Belloc have named the Servile State. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Pasteurizing apparatus, an arrangement by which milk is conveniently heated to destroy disease germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Of course it took time to penetrate into the meat, but the first superficial penetration stopped the injurious effects of germs which set up putrefaction. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• But when germs are outside the body, as in water or milk, or on clothing, dishes, or furniture, they can be easily killed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Scalded or Pasteurized milk saves the lives of scores of babies, because the germs of summer complaint which lurk in poor milk are killed and rendered harmless in the process of scalding. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The bacteriologist with the same instrument scrutinizes the drinking water and learns whether the dangerous typhoid germs are present. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The important sanitary feature in modern plumbing is to keep all sewer gas and disease germs out of the house. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The germs are from _me_, and they are improved, they are developed to excellence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As water flows over the land, it gathers filth and disease germs. 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.
• He exploded the previously held theories of scientists concerning the spontaneous generation of living things, and clearly established and promulgated the knowledge of disease germs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• An ordinary test-tube is supplied with some of the culture medium, and is then sterilized over the fire to destroy all interfering germs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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.

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