How To Use Dissolving In A Sentence

The solution obtained by dissolving the absorbent albuminoid in the buffer advantageously contains 6% by weight of this albuminoid.
A couple of rusty old bits of farm machinery lay slowly dissolving beneath the sky.
Blunders made by the Coalition Provisional Authority -- disbanding the Iraqi army, dissolving the Baath party, failing to stop the lotting -- are not the main problem. Jonathan Steele: Why the Democrats Should Use the "Defeat" Word
It found itself subjected to harsh rain it was ill equipped for, dissolving the sandstone facades of it's buildings slowly, even as the people chose not to lift their eyes and notice it.
I was in a unique position to write these stories for a Western audience stories about the farm and the old feudal ways, the dissolving feudal order and the new way coming, the sleek businessmen from the cities. Daniyal Mueenuddin talks about his life and his first collection of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.

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In the actual breaking-up moment, the dissolving of what could have been a perfect partnership in fantasyland does hurt. The Lo-Down
It is not the reality of scepticism or of truth dissolving relativism, but the claim to truth of all formal argument that is affected.
She felt her mind, her spirit, her flesh dissolving into a nebula of pure ecstasy burning across the blackness of outer space. THE ONLY GAME
The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality.
Treat with applications of cider vinegar over the affected area, or apply a fungicide made by dissolving one part tea tree oil in ten parts water.
First economic product is with dissolving the nitrocellulose element at organic dissolvent is a foundation.
Although the quartz encrustation protects the calcite from dissolving, it obscures the twinned nature of the crystals, which is revealed by mechanical removal of the crust.
'Tis not improbable also, but that our _taste_ may be very much improv'd either by _preparing_ our taste for the Body, as, after eating _bitter_ things, _Wine_, or other _Vinous liquors_, are more sensibly tasted; or else by _preparing_ Bodies for our tast; as the dissolving of Metals with acid Liquors, make them tastable, which were before altogether insipid; thus _Lead_ becomes _sweeter_ then Sugar, and _Silver_ more _bitter_ then Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
It was made by dissolving mercury antimony oxide, which was red, into mercury. BLOOD IS DIRT
Two particular universal rights rapidly dissolving in the New Orleans Superdome were racial and sexual equality.
This has the added bonus of dissolving those crusty accretions that make one's toothpaste tube a complete social disgrace.
The cellaret is a tin vessel, in which ices are kept for a short time from dissolving. The Book of Household Management
Dissolving salt: Finely ground salt such as canner's salt or table salt dissolves much taster than coarsely ground salt (rock salt). Chapter 7
I could have taken the last shot of Preminger's film and started after dissolving to the title, ‘Three Years Later.’
Exxon subsequently withdrew guilty pleas to four misdemeanour charges relating to the spill, thereby formally dissolving the out of court settlement.
But one cannot think of human life itself as a problem to be solved without dehumanizing it - dissolving its richness and its meaning.
Omnipotent fantasy may also dissolve a variety of conceptual boundaries that obstruct intimacy by eliding them with the dissolving boundary between pain and pleasure-boundaries of temporality, gender, or generation, for instance.
Like the first, it seemed to simply fall apart as it fell, dissolving into tiny, indetectable pieces. Objective: Bajor
In this case chemical agents penetrate the plastic, causing swelling, softening, charring, crazing, delamination, blistering, embrittlement, discoloration, dissolving, and ultimate failure.
One of those illusions was my persistent sensation that my personality was dissolving.
So, amid glitter of illuminated streets and Champs Elysees, and crackle of fireworks and glad deray, has the first National Assembly vanished; dissolving, as they well say, into blank Time; and is no more. The French Revolution
Crew members begin dissolving, literally, their bodies just melting down into nothing. 21 « May « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
Already the numbness was creeping through her body, dissolving her strength and robbing her limbs of their force. COMPULSION
It reveals that 30 % acidulous grain alcohol is suitable , superior in the pigment dissolving.
Hancock and Charles Macintosh solved that problem in the early 1820s by dissolving rubber in naphtha instead.
It wavered, its substance changing, dissolving into a form of roiling water which reached out to seize her. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
It leads to what I call disorganization: your mind is dissolving and you're not able to compute all the stimulation coming in. ‘Waking Nightmares’
Dissolving negative, harmful patterns leads toward the sense of ease, grace, lightness, freedom and good health that are every human being's natural birthright.
I enjoy not less what may be called the negative side of spring, -- those dark, dank, dissolving days, yellow sposh and mud and water everywhere, -- yet who can stay long indoors? Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers — a living prismatic gem that changes its colour with every change of position — how in turning it catches the sunshine on its burnished neck and gorges plumes — green and gold and flame-coloured, the beams changing to visible flakes as they fall, dissolving into nothing, to be succeeded by others and yet others? Green Mansions
Some argue that downsizing is dissolving the glue that has traditionally held companies together, and without which they may never flourish.
This type of powder was created by dissolving nitrocellulose in ethyl acetate, and forming the round grains under water - much like the oil droplets formed when one shakes vegetable oil and vinegar to make salad dressing.
A casual examination today would lead you quickly to discover 16 bananas in various states of disrepair; a single, mouldering kiwi fruit; and a fridge full of dissolving salad.
It says the group is dissolving its standalone consumer digital arm and this will result in other job losses. Computing
Wijs 'iodine reagent is made by dissolving 13 grammes iodine in 1 litre of glacial acetic acid and passing chlorine into the solution until the iodine is all converted into iodine monochloride. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
In late afternoon the white sand flew in tatters across the dissolving sun, an opalescent filter, the sky radiating throbbing waves of bruised purple, cobalt and amethyst into the slim gray shred of sand making the horizon.
the dissolving medium is called a solvent
In the original cooling or through subsequent heat treatment, a matrix can be internally decarbonized or carburized by depositing graphite on existing sites or by dissolving carbon from them.
By that time, the dissolving wad residue should make the bore look like the inside of a brick chimney.
Some suggest mixing the rosin and soda ash (or only a portion of the soda ash) prior to dissolving in water; others saponify in a boiler connected with a trap which returns the resinate to the pan and allows the carbonic-acid gas to escape or to be collected. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
Poison gas, dissolving slowly in the water, is able to pollute vast areas and get into food chains.
Omeros' agents are designed to selectively inhibit plasmin, the enzyme responsible for fibrinolysis and dissolving blood clots, while avoiding significant inhibition of Factor XIa and kallikrein, important regulators of the coagulation cascade. Omeros Licenses Novel Antifibrinolytic Agents - Yahoo! Finance
It is prepared for use by dissolving in hydrochloric acid, 10 lb. naphthylamine ether powder heated with 5 lb. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
Yet, sharing a meal is one of the most powerful social levelers, a potent instrument of social bonding and dissolving boundaries.
Holding within their billowed masses the healing punishments of the rain, chaliced beakers of golden flame, lightnings instant and unbearable as the face of God -- dissolving into a crystal nothing, reborn from the viewless caverns of air -- here let us erect one enraptured altar to the bright mountains of the sky! Shandygaff
Thick, white, whirling, dissolving the shadow which was all that remained of the druid, Nion, save his need for revenge and his love. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
He came to a halt, dissolving into a paroxysm of giggles.
Make vinaigrette by dissolving a pinch of salt and sugar in lemon juice. Times, Sunday Times
Visions of a gray uniform came blending in dissolving views with the visions of monarchs in their robes of state and soldiers in heavy armour; it meant much, that gray uniform; and a sense of loss and want and desolation by degrees crept over me, which had nothing to do with the ruin of kingdoms. Daisy in the Field
This is followed by a slow pan across a stretch of blank wall, dissolving to a shot of Alexandra in the shower; but before we see this we can already hear the sound of running water, mixed with her weeping.
How is liquidating an Internet company different from dissolving any other type of company?
I can't watch it without dissolving in laughter.
By domesticae, he means those simple uncompounded purgatives which everybody can administer to themselves; such as senna-tea, stewed prunes and senria, chewing a little rhubarb, or dissolving an ounce and a half of manna in fair water, with the juice of a lemon to make it palatable. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Lies were dissolving - even his own had disappeared.
At a time of dissolving borders and distances the nation as a whole, with 92 million inhabitants, an impressive system of electronic communications, and a whole new subproletariat in shantytowns trying to fight its way into the middle class, is due for another decades-long round of roiling, combustible history. History Moving North
Omeros' agents are designed to selectively inhibit plasmin, the enzyme responsible for fibrinolysis and dissolving blood clots, while avoiding significant inhibition of Factor XIa and kallikrein, important regulators of the coagulation cascade. Omeros Licenses Novel Antifibrinolytic Agents - Yahoo! Finance
But divorce is still not easy when one spouse objects to dissolving the marriage.
Thick, white, whirling, dissolving the shadow which was all that remained of the druid, Nion, save his need for revenge and his love. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Their theory has been shown to be useful for explaining the physico-chemical characteristics of elongated polyelectrolytes dissolving in an aqueous solution, such as electrophoretic mobility.
Tendrils of mist snaked from between the trees and lay across the road like a blanket of living snow, shifting, curling, reaching upward to ensnarl Ranyart's legs for only a moment before dissolving into nothingness. And Other Tales Of Valdemar
Then he serves mock turtle soup, made by dissolving a fob watch. Times, Sunday Times
It seemed as though her body was dissolving, and as the potency rose, that her mind was whirling, spinning free of her.
Administrative lawsuit is a system of dissolving the administrative disputes.
From the acids in insoluble and a few other compounds, chromic, arsenic, and arsenious acids, by fusion with carbonate of soda in presence of carbonic acid gas; borate of manganese is readily decomposed when the boracic acid is to be determined by boiling with solution of potassa, dissolving the residue in hydrochloric acid and precipitating the manganese as binoxide. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
the dissolving of salt in water
We ate them together, the chemical sweetness of the cookies dissolving into the ferric tea. Day of Honey
Hot water softens them by dissolving the strengthening carbohydrates from their cell walls, and moving into the cells to gelate the starch granules and either dissolve or moisten the storage proteins. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
These and certain sea anemones often leave a mucous trail that, upon dissolving in water, gives off a characteristic odor.
One bite in these unassuming madeleines and the hair in your nape will stand to attention, as you suddenly register the intensity of the chestnut honey aroma, and the smooth, moist, melting texture of the crumb dissolving in your mouth.
I prefer to mix my own gum by dissolving gum-arabic powder or granules in water, at 1 part gum to 2 parts water.
I told him I was dissolving the partnership, then I was made bankrupt.
My old reference points are dissolving. Times, Sunday Times
A few clouds formed briefly before dissolving again.
There will be a mechanism for dissolving partnerships, similar to divorce for married couples and it will oblige provision to be made for the maintenance of a partner's children should the partnership be dissolved.
“While the notion of historicity has become ever more problematic for theory,” he says, “at the same time for historiography and its own methodological self-awareness the idea of history as a unitary process is rapidly dissolving” (Vattimo 1988, 6). Postmodernism
Say ‘Jekyll and Hyde’, and the person you are speaking to will see in the mind's eye Spencer Tracy's amiably pudgy features dissolving into the monstrous physiognomy of Edward Hyde.
Bulbous Baggins was aggressively wrestling Rupert, and the entire Insufferable Tribe were praying that the violent agitation underwater was doing some much-needed crust-dissolving on Bulbous's unbathed nether-regions. Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: Robbed!
By mixing vaseline with paraffin a soft wax may be made of any desired degree of softness, and by dissolving vaseline in kerosene an insulating liquid of any degree of viscidity may be obtained. On Laboratory Arts
Dipped in miso, it has a sweet, jellied, curiously dissolving quality, like some exotic form of vegan candy.
The cleaner works by redissolving the metallic stain.
She needed the cold, needed it to somehow brace her against the fluidlike sensation that she was dissolving. The Life You Longed For
The process involves dissolving the black drugs in water, and adding ammonium hydroxide to precipitate the drugs present in the mixture.
Thick, white, whirling, dissolving the shadow which was all that remained of the druid, Nion, save his need for revenge and his love. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Here, as in his design of a nautical centre at Bandol, the language is Modernist: floating horizontals, oversailing deck and dissolving glass wall.
Visions of dissolving garment or accessory being lifted out of washing machine in pieces after cheap and cheerful thread goes 'boink'. Blisstree
The disavowal of nothingness hides another disavowed, even more denegated and foreclosed thing, the inertia of the self-pleasurer, who after all appears in the form of an inert statue, a self-consuming artifact, the static image of a meditator disappearing into nothing, and/or dissolving into enjoyment. Hegel on Buddhism
It consists in precipitating all the manganese in the state of peroxide, dissolving it in a ferrous solution so as to bring back the manganese to the manganous slate, and determining volumetrically, by means of potassium permanganate, the quantity of ferrous salt which has been converted into ferric. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
That's when carbonic acid from the groundwater above and sulfuric acid from the hydrocarbon field below went to work dissolving limestone. THIS TIME LOVE
A casual examination today would lead you quickly to discover 16 bananas in various states of disrepair; a single, mouldering kiwi fruit; and a fridge full of dissolving salad.
The Columbine is pleasing to the eye, as well in respect of the seemly (and not vulgar) shape as in regard of the azury colour thereof, and is holden to be very medicinable for the dissolving of imposthumations or swellings in the throat. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
She felt her mind, her spirit, her flesh dissolving into a nebula of pure ecstasy burning across the blackness of outer space. THE ONLY GAME
In 1858 Britain reined in the East India Company, dissolving its territorial power and making India the responsibility of the British crown.
'Nobody has got such kind nieces as me!' cried Sir Hugh, again dissolving into tenderness; 'for all nobody has deserved so ill of them. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Thick, white, whirling, dissolving the shadow which was all that remained of the druid, Nion, save his need for revenge and his love. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
The wild cherry cough drop dissolving in my mouth is sweet and soothing.
On July 21 in 1773, Pope Clement XIV issued the brief, Dominus ac redemptor noster, officially dissolving the Society of Jesus Jesuits. Archive 2008-07-20
That's when carbonic acid from the groundwater above and sulfuric acid from the hydrocarbon field below went to work dissolving limestone. THIS TIME LOVE
It says the group is dissolving its standalone consumer digital arm and this will result in other job losses. Computing
Working with dedication and determination, they have developed new treatments and procedures, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, clot -- dissolving medicines, angioplasty, and cardiac imaging devices, that have saved many lives. Proclamation On American Heart Month
The following war story related by a participant seems to favor dissolving the corporation instead of letting it die.
His own identity was fading into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself, which these dead had one time reared and lived in, was dissolving and dwindling…
Chilean Merlot was melting through my veins, dissolving my innards. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Zachriel: Is salt dissolving is water is a natural, spontaneous process? fifth monarchy man: It depends on whether or not there is a person doing the dissolving Beckwith on ID
His Grozny, delicate as a doily, shows the ruins of the bombed Chechen capital dissolving in quavering sepia contours like an 18th-century capriccio.
So we got the whole thing annulled, dissolving the marriage as if it never took place.
Blind faith in Scotland is now the province of the very few, and seems instead to be dissolving into a sort of twisted cynicism about the national team.
Again dissolving onself and metamorphosing into another being! Adaptation, assimilation or dissolution?
To keep flies, and especially blowflies, away from and breeding in your garbage bin, soak strips of old sheeting in a liquid repellent made by dissolving ten drops of citronella oil and three drops of peppermint oil in a litre of water.
A walk along our curved bay hides the minutely jagged edges of a coast dissolving in the mist.
As the boundaries between biology and technology are arguably dissolving, so the relationships between humans become unstable.
Dissolving pulp sheet showed the greatest x eight percentage gains, followed by radiata pine and red lauan respectively. The latter two didn't show statistically meaningful difference, though.
A saturated solution is prepared by dissolving 140 grains of recrystallized picric acid (carbazotic acid, or, more correctly, trinitrophenol) in 1 pint of water with heat, and decanting the clear solution. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
His entering into a second marriage without dissolving his first is a bigamous act under Australian law, a matter he was well aware of.
In order to accomplish this the head of each sperm called the acrosome contains a packet of shell-dissolving enzymes—released when contact with the egg is made. Getting Pregnant
In the original cooling or through subsequent heat treatment, a matrix can be internally decarbonized or carburized by depositing graphite on existing sites or by dissolving carbon from them.
The name hung redly in the river before slowly dissolving. Bleeding Violet
What we have to mourn are tiny marine organisms dissolving in acidified water. Times, Sunday Times
Beck was also a proficient hypnotist, prestidigitator, chemist and roboticist, wearing a fishbowl, one-way plexiglass helmet, with gas jets mounted in his gloves and boots capable of emitting hallucinogenic, 'web' dissolving gases. Archive 2006-07-01
Loyalties are multidirectional and even the most affirmative forms of political direction and identity cannot eradicate the informal, boundary-dissolving, groupings.
You can almost see the solid cubes dissolving into planes. The Times Literary Supplement
In 1917, d' Herelle had discovered a self-propagating filterable substance capable of dissolving dysentery bacilli, later identified as bacteriophage.
As an example in modern practice, it's only just becoming possible with imaging to tell the difference between an occlusive stroke, which you treat with a clot-dissolving agent, and a haeorrhagic stroke, which a clot-dissolving agent is likely to make worse. Early medieval surgical knowledge
When the presence of a hormone is only suspected by the effects it brings about, it is named after those effects in many cases; this new hormone was therefore named hyperglycemic-glycogenolytic factor (hy'per-gly-see'mik gly'koh-jen'oh-lih'tik; "high-glucose, glycogen-dissolving" G) in order to mark the manner in which it raised the blood glucose level and lowered the quantity of glycogen in the liver. The Human Brain
It can gently flow or crash, dissolving the hardest substances through its softness.
It has been prepared synthetically by heating glycerol and oleic acid together, and may be obtained by submitting olive oil to a low temperature for several days, when the liquid portion may be further deprived of any traces of stearin and palmitin by dissolving in alcohol. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
Last night's crystal clear certainties were dissolving into wishy-washy doubts. FINAL RESORT
I believe they are valid analyses, but they don't deal with the hierarchy-dissolving, demassifying effects of computer-mediated communication networks.
Glass, at high temperatures, not only has the property of oxidating the metals, but, moreover, when the chemical affinity is satisfied, of dissolving the oxides.
The practice of having the governor-general's proclamations dissolving parliament read from the front steps was begun in 1963, on the advice of the then Attorney-General, and for good legal reasons.
Given that GM (Firestone and others) was complicit in dissolving the entire “trolley” industry, it seems like poetic justice. Oddsmaking an Auto Bailout | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The deal merely apportioned the cabinet posts among power contenders without dissolving the factional militias.
She felt her mind, her spirit, her flesh dissolving into a nebula of pure ecstasy burning across the blackness of outer space. THE ONLY GAME
The snail groups also have a special enzyme type, created by the snail version of a liver, called cellulase that is found in very few other invertebrates but plays an important role in dissolving the cell walls of algae and detritus. Mollusca
Independence was the consequence of dissolving the government that delegated the executive and federative powers to the British Crown, which was also the critical link to the British Empire. The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?
Barium chloride, BaCl_2 · 2H_2O, can be obtained by dissolving witherite in dilute hydrochloric acid, and also from heavy spar by ignition in a reverberatory furnace with a mixture of coal, limestone and calcium chloride, the barium chloride being extracted from the fused mass by water, leaving a residue of insoluble calcium sulphide. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Simmer until the rhubarb is dissolving, about 7 minutes. Archive 2009-05-01
Identifying penicillia is relatively easy for a trained microbiologist; certifying that the substance ‘dissolving’ bacteria on petri dishes is true penicillin is quite a different matter.
Thick, white, whirling, dissolving the shadow which was all that remained of the druid, Nion, save his need for revenge and his love. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Dissolving alkyl halides at low temperature in hydrogen fluoride-antimon pentafluoride (HF-SbF5), which is Press Release: The 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Although the quartz encrustation protects the calcite from dissolving, it obscures the twinned nature of the crystals, which is revealed by mechanical removal of the crust.
The entry claimed that in the past alchemists had said dew was capable of dissolving gold and had some virtue in correcting any disposition to corpulence. Weatherwatch: The magical properties of dew
Water is capable of dissolving carbon dioxide; the composition of the atmosphere would therefore change considerably.
You can almost see the solid cubes dissolving into planes. The Times Literary Supplement
The response of MacMahon's government of ‘moral Order’ was to counter-attack by dissolving the Assembly and unleashing a punitive purge of local officials and associations.
Capabilities include powder blending and damping, sieving, kibbling, dissolving, and filtering.
Rapidly dissolving tablets and an aerosol spray are available for sublingual use.
Kordofan, whither it is imported from Darfour; and salt, from the salt mines of Boyedha; but this salt is dear, and the poor use as a substitute for it a brine, which they procure by dissolving in hot water lumps of a reddish coloured saline earth, of a bitterish, disagreeable taste, which they purchase from the Bedouins of the eastern desert; it seems to contain ochre and allum. Travels in Nubia
Saliva also contributes to taste by dissolving sapid substances in food and so making them accessible to the taste buds; a zinc-binding protein, gustin, is thought to contribute to the taste process.
These pharmaceutical compositions may be manufactured in a manner that is itself known, e.g., by means of conventional mixing, dissolving, granulating, dragee-making, levigating, emulsifying, encapsulating, entrapping or lyophilizing processes. FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 07/22/2010
The spell died quickly, emerald flames flaring for a moment, then dissolving into nothing.
It reveals that 30 % acidulous grain alcohol is suitable , superior in the pigment dissolving.
The egg foam will be thick and will form a slowly dissolving ribbon falling back onto the bowl of whipped eggs when the whisk is lifted. The daring bakers strike again - yule log
Make vinaigrette by dissolving a pinch of salt and sugar in lemon juice. Times, Sunday Times
As the sky darkened, eight immense lighting towers lit the rolling, dissolving billows of smoke that issued from a giant single mask built into the architectural tiers of the vast set.
Precisely; and those which we prepared by dissolving copper in nitric acid, _nitrat of copper_, and so on. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
She could barely believe that the man she had married could have acted in this way, conspiring with the lords to murder her confidential secretary and then dissolving Parliament without consulting her.
‘I'm not going to bite you,’ he said, his laugh dissolving into a soft chortle.
There are also published findings that show coconut water being used in kidney dialysis and dissolving kidney stones. Five Interesting Facts About Coconuts | myFiveBest
As the trawler's stern light drifted to starboard, he watched it grow dimmer, dissolving into the spray and darkness of the storm. CORMORANT
Technological advancement (viz. technomania) has been responsible for forced and violent dissolving of indigenous communities in order to access mineral-rich lands; it has been responsible for curable cancers and other degenerative ailments (while ironically, providing novel remedies and cures for specific ailments that, well, nature has provided all along). Countercurrents.org
But divorce is still not easy when one spouse objects to dissolving the marriage.
These and certain sea anemones often leave a mucous trail that, upon dissolving in water, gives off a characteristic odor.
The problem is whenever someone else seeks to construct another's world, dissolving meaning, as it is the individual's mystery that must be found, discovered and honed which is innate, not socially constructed... So Insignificant, So Special
-- The material especially procured for cartridge-bags is to be carefully inspected to detect any mixture of cotton with the wool, by burning a few bits taken at hazard from each piece; or, by dissolving it in a solution of 1 ounce of caustic potassa in a pint of water -- the cloth to be put in when the water is boiling, which is to continue until dissolution takes place. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
"Yes, " she managed to choke out before dissolving into giggles.
It wavered, its substance changing, dissolving into a form of roiling water which reached out to seize her. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Some argue that downsizing is dissolving the glue that has traditionally held companies together, and without which they may never flourish.
Omeros' proprietary antifibrinolytic agents are highly selective inhibitors of plasmin, the enzyme responsible for fibrinolysis and dissolving blood clots, while avoiding significant inhibition of Factor XIa and kallikrein. Omeros Licenses Novel Antifibrinolytic Agents - Yahoo! Finance
Dr Lungé found the following process more satisfactory in the case of the more highly nitrated products: -- The reagent is an alcoholic solution of sodium-ethylate prepared by dissolving Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
It was made by dissolving mercury antimony oxide, which was red, into mercury. BLOOD IS DIRT
Omeros' proprietary antifibrinolytic agents are highly selective inhibitors of plasmin, the enzyme responsible for fibrinolysis and dissolving blood clots, while avoiding significant inhibition of Factor XIa and kallikrein. Omeros Licenses Novel Antifibrinolytic Agents - Yahoo! Finance
A pit littered with chai cups, some made of plastic, now crushed and crumpled, others made of clay, already dissolving under the dew.
When the cake is nearly cooked, prepare syrup by dissolving the icing sugar in the lemon juice and boiling for 2 minutes.
We say that salt dissolving is water is a natural, spontaneous process — even if you are the one who dumped the salt in the water. Beckwith on ID
A proteolytic enzyme produced by hemolytic streptococci, capable of dissolving fibrin and used medically to dissolve blood clots.
It is of course a short step from these premises to the view that adaptation is a universal moulder of forms and behaviour, and adaptationism a universal acid for dissolving away scientific problems.
The carnage was the product of a showdown between two crime bosses – Fernando "The Engineer" Sanchez Arellano and Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, a renegade lieutenant who rose through the ranks by dissolving bodies in vats of lye. Mexico Upset By California Efforts To Legalize Pot
‘I keep these in my shed, so if the roof leaks on that, I'm screwed,’ he quips, before dissolving into kinks of laughter.
Dissolving readily in water or milk, it yields a mild nutriment for the sick, and enters into the composition of many delicacies for the table, such as jellies, &c. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
My old reference points are dissolving. Times, Sunday Times
The dissolving rock below the ground had a profound effect on the land above it, and the landscape, called karst, displayed unusual and distinctive features. The Plains of Passage
Is salt dissolving is water is a natural, spontaneous process? Beckwith on ID
The lumps are a result of the interaction of the bacteria dissolving the bone, and the bone trying to repair itself, leaving a honeycomb effect.
'domesticae', he means those simple uncompounded purgatives which everybody can administer to themselves; such as senna-tea, stewed prunes and senria, chewing a little rhubarb, or dissolving an ounce and a half of manna in fair water, with the juice of a lemon to make it palatable. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
There are also reports of an estimated 8,000 recent drug slayings and dissolvings (in acid), decapitations and kidnappings. The Mex Files
Nationalising the projects without paying compensation would mean overruling and dissolving obligations entered into by previous governments. Times, Sunday Times
Today doctors use medicinal maggots to clean wounds by dissolving dead tissue and to disinfect them by killing bacteria.
In freeing women from corsets and dissolving the fortified grandeur of the obdurate, hyperbolic silhouette, Poiret effected a concomitant revolution in dressmaking, one that shifted the emphasis away from the skills of tailoring to … the skills of draping. The King Is Dead
Care should be taken that only a small portion of the mineral is used, and also but little acid; the action should be observed, and is frequently a characteristic, in the case with calcspar, which effervesces while dissolving. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
The larvae of several fly species live and breed in the flesh-dissolving pitchers of carnivorous plants, where they feed on the organic soup and remains of the plant's victims.
These devices combine the maceration abilities of mechanical thrombectomy devices with the dissolving effects of targeted thrombolysis. Business Wire Travel News
Some companies are charging as much as 6000 dollar for 'fat-dissolving' injections, while others promise to 'liquefy' your flab. Medindia Health News
This I attribute to the formation of a periodide at the positive electrode, which, dissolving in the mass of liquid iodide, came in contact with the lead evolved at the negative electrode, and dissolved part of it, becoming itself again protiodide. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
And where they mingled, where they crossed, flamed out suddenly immense rayless orbs; palpitant for an instant, then dissolving in spiralling, feathery spray of pallid emerald incandescences. The Metal Monster
Only this system was dissolving now that Peter was sleeping less and waking earlier, and the days and nights seem to run together into one long, dark passage of time- and Peter had picked up a lot of information.

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