Layers

Examples

• The whitening is done by boiling the pins in a large copper kettle, which also contains layers of grained tin and a solution of argol or bitartrate of potash. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the silo it should be distributed evenly and probably had better be placed in regular layers, lapping shingle fashion so that it will settle evenly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• So I went down to Quogue with one of my assistants and saw there for miles large beds of black sand on the beach in layers from one to six inches thick--hundreds of thousands of tons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nor are the rocks of the world in orderly layers one above the other, convenient for men to read. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• W erner thought that the earth showed universal strata like the layers of an onion, the mountains being formed by erosion, subsidence, cavings-in. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Geologists say that long ages ago Germany was submerged, that the waters slowly evaporated and that the various substances in the sea water were deposited in thick layers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The sandy ground, shelving downward from where we sat, was lost mysteriously in the outward layers of the fog. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This consisted of alternate discs of copper and zinc, separated by layers of cloth steeped in an acidulated solution. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These metal layers conduct current to or from the active nickel hydrate in all parts of the tube very efficiently. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A built-up gun is made of several layers of forged steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Three hundred such layers placed one on top of the other would make a sheet no thicker than tissue-paper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These little cakes were delicately packed away between layers of cotton in small, light boxes and shipped to Bergmann in New York, by whom the telephone transmitters were being made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Second, all wood parts are built up with veneer layers; never are they constructed of solid blocks of wood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are about three hundred and fifty layers of each kind of material in a 4 1/8-inch tube, each layer of nickel hydrate being about 0. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Each of these plates is built up, as shown in detail in Fig. 65, of lead strips corrugated and arranged in layers alternately with flat strips, within perforated leaden cases. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In a wire-wound gun an inner tube of steel is thoroughly wrapped by successive layers of ribbon wire, each layer being wound with wire at a different tension. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between layers of lead foil. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The elements of this battery consist of alternate layers of sheet lead, and a paste of red oxide of lead. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A is the furnace, in which the iron ore and fuel are arranged in alternate layers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• So thin are the layers that this sheet is only about the thickness of a visiting-card, and yet it is composed of two hundred layers of metal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It should be noted that the layers of flake nickel extend practically unbroken across the tube and make contact with the metal wall at both sides. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• An insulated wire runs from the metallic layers on the roof of the car to switch S, which is shown open in the sketch. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She went to the bed upon which had been spread several layers of soft grasses. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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