Properties

Examples

• No one can carry around with him a museum of all the things whose properties will assist the conduct of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This was a great advance, as a more accurate division of time was had by improving the isochronous properties of the vibrating escapement. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mr Venus involuntarily smoothed his countenance, and looked at his hand, as if to see whether any of its speaking properties came off. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Magnetic Properties of an Electric Current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It owned great properties and often hoarded huge treasures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The production of coal gas, and the development of its properties at different stages of distillation, may be readily shown by means of a common tobacco pipe. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• That this solution has bleaching properties is shown by the fact that a colored cloth dipped into it loses its color, and unbleached fabrics immersed in it are whitened. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The cause of this phaenomenon must evidently lie in the different properties of space and time. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Perhaps it will not surprise us now to learn that a magnet in motion has electric properties and is, in fact, able to produce a current within a wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Senefelder had advanced thus far, he had not yet made application of the chemical properties of ink and water, which constitute the distinguishing characteristics of Lithography. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I am a part of this scene; each and all its properties are a part of me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• For the purpose of making the cast finely ground fresh plaster of Paris is needed; if of long standing, the same will lose its desirable properties. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• An immense building of glass, with all the properties and stage-settings of a regular theatre, is required. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To be able to walk is to have certain properties of nature at our disposal--and so with all other habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Current-measuring instruments, or galvanometers, depend for their action on the magnetic properties of current electricity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He was quite a young man, and of the two properties, form and motion, the latter first attracted the eye in him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Of this kind Is the conjunction of the properties of different persons, after such a manner as not to admit of separation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These coarse particles, or clinkers, absorb water very slowly, are practically inert, and have very feeble cementing properties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The error is the same: in all these cases it is assumed that before objects can be intelligently used, their properties must be known. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The modern mathematician will readily sympathise with Plato's delight in the properties of pure mathematics. Plato. The Republic.
• And this is easily accounted for from the known properties of human nature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The Egyptian em balmers relied on the preservative properties of common salt, wine, aromatics, myrrh, cassia, etc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• All magnets, whether natural, permanent or electric, possess the same magnetic properties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Jan Baptista van Helmont, a Flemish physician (1577-1644), was the first to apply the term, _gas_ to the elastic fluids which resemble air in physical properties. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But in the first place I observe, that this is more properly the discovery of one of the properties of a right line, than a just deflation of it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Average physical properties shown in United States Standard test bar taken from full-sized prolongation of end of forging: Elastic limit, 53,560 pounds per square inch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It came to most of us as a surprise that an electric current has magnetic properties and transforms a coil into a veritable magnet. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Emulation, that in its excess almost assumed the venomous properties of envy, gave a sting to these feelings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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