How To Use Vapours In A Sentence
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Sampling of gases and vapors by active sampling on a solid adsorbent or passive sampling by diffusion is routinely done and well documented.
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The idea here is to use an adsorbent surface (a roughened metal plate) to concentrate explosive vapours.
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Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness.
Henrik Ibsen
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Add two teaspoonfuls of a mentholated rub and gently inhale the steaming mentholated vapours.
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More corrosion resistant than anti-magnetic stainless steel, but less resistant than SPI Gold Plated tweezers especially for osmium tetroxide vapors.
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“For tear-free chopping, mincing, dicing, slicing — fear no onion,” reads the packaging for RSVP Onion Goggles (shown), whose antifog lenses and foam seal are designed to protect your eyes from irritating onion vapors.
Claim Check: Onion Goggles
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Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that can produce a quick, powerful high, usually by depressing the central nervous system.
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It is he who, out of those vapours so raised, forms the rain, so that the earth is no loser by the vapours it sends up, for they are returned with advantage in fruitful showers.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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As Tharanal had led them towards it yesterday, he'd seen thick plumes of smoke - and other, more noxious vapors - rising from outlying ventilation shafts like the fumaroles of volcanos.
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From the lapse of time, and the action of the vapours, the inside walls are detached, and have covered the basin with great blocks of lithoid lavas.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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She should have the best of forage, the purest of water, the cleanest and best of ventilated stables, and the air should be free from any taint of noxious vapors - in a word, the entire environment of this faithful animal should be as carefully and honestly protected as though she was human and not brute.
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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If, instead of causing these vapors to condense in the second test-tube, we leave the first communication open, the vapors recondense in the first test-tube without any elevation of pressure; and we do not see the least trace of liquid forming in the second test tube.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
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My name shall still outsoar these low, mirk vapors --
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1
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Guy says: gwjd: C.J. – “For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law
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Hot healing waters massaged me, and mineral vapours soothed my senses.
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Our Hundred Days in Europe
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
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Children in the home may be injured by direct contact with caustic materials such as lye and hydrochloric acid, solvents such as acetone and ether, or toxic gases such as ammonia vapors and phosphine gas.
The Crisis of Meth
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If the mitral cuspidate valves do not prevent the egress of fuliginous vapours to the lungs, how should they oppose the escape of air?
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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The Meteors is divided into ten discourses on a variety of topics: terrestrial bodies, vapours and exhalations, the nature of salt, winds, clouds, rainbows, snow and hail, storms, and a few other phenomena.
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The primary purpose of a laboratory hood is to keep toxic or irritating vapors and fumes out of the general laboratory working area.
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And this is not all: corroded by the acetous acid, they are full of small holes, particularly in the cap, where all the vapors collect themselves, as in a reservoir.
The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain
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One halo is refulgent, another radiates smoke or vapors, and a third appears to have been sprung from its perfectly circular tension so that it looks like a snake, a broken rubber band, a garden hose.
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As the Gamekeeper (son of dgr) wanders in and slaps a dead rabbit (paunched not skinned) on the table right next to the triple-tiered cake stand I'll have hysterics and scream "take it to cook this minute" followed by an attack of the vapours.
54 entries from April 2007
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In collaboration with John Konnert and Peter D'Antonio, procedures were developed for determining atomic arrangements in amorphous materials based on criteria similar to those applied to molecular vapors.
Jerome Karle - Autobiography
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His brain was filled with vapors and dreams.
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Watching the steam rise, she inhaled the comforting vapors and decided to take a bath.
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The gases, vapors, and liquid and solid egesta thrown off from its body to be collected, analysed, and the calefacient [15] value of the combustible portion of them to be determined.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
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When the hatch is opened, the release of these pressurized gases and vapors can expose workers.
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It will not be here amisse to adde this one observation further; That it is better to drinke this water once a day, then twice, and that in the mornings, after that the Sunne hath dryed up & consumed the vapors retained through the coldnesse of the night, &c. as is formerly declared.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain
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Like many people, I enjoy the moist aroma and sinus-soothing vapors from a pot of boiling water.
Archive 2008-03-01
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In the daguerreotype process, an early type of photography, a silver plate was sensitized by exposure to iodine vapors.
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On an occasion after having stopped for a "nooning," there loomed up suddenly in the northwest a black, ominous cloud, revolving swiftly and threateningly, as might the vapors from some gigantic cauldron; variegated in black, blue and green, bespangled with red streaks of lightning.
Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method
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Could we not copare the warming in these places over the last 100 years to workout the impact of post-1945 building/urban effect and as to weather CO2 driven IR reradiation increases heating increases water vapors, which increases heat trappings.
Unthreaded #5 « Climate Audit
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Lil Debbie is having the vapors because even conservative columnists wrote nice things about Obama's magnificent campaign and honest things about McCain's despicable campaign.
Coulter, Drudge, Limbaugh and the House Of Cronkite - Swampland - TIME.com
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Vapours enchant the distances, bathing peaks in bewitchments of blue and grey of a hundred tones, transforming naked cliffs to amethyst, stretching spectral gauzes across the topazine morning, magnifying the splendour of noon by effacing the horizon, filling the evening with smoke of gold, bronzing the waters, banding the sundown with ghostly purple and green of nacre.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
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a fish-shaped flyswatter with blue horns, fermented lemures, fiery spectres, embottled spirit vapors swirling in the crude next to the Soft Scrub, the vinegared and leistered sealed in tins, delicious with saltines, gleaned spikelets, used-up votives ....
The New Yorker
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The morning vapors having dispersed from the opposite plain, and Helen quite refreshed by her long repose, Wallace seated her on horseback, and they recommenced their journey.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The walls are blackened with torula, the fungus that feeds on the escaping vapors; known as "the angels' share.
A Slow Path to Perfection
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It soon turned into a lime kiln and sent out hot burning vapours.
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Parents overprize their children, while they behold them through the vapours of affection.
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A radiance now came pouring through the eastern opening down the gorge or cwm itself, and soon the light vapours floating about the pool were turned to sailing gauzes, all quivering with different dyes, as though a rainbow had become torn from the sky and woven into gossamer hangings and set adrift.
Aylwin
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Back in the days when women often came down with a mysterious malady called the vapors, a cup of chamomile tea was often prescribed to relieve female anxiety.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
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Everywhere on earth that day, in the ears of every one who breathed, there had been the same humming in the air, the same rush of green vapors, the crepitation, the streaming down of shooting stars.
In the Days of the Comet
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The nanofiller also creates a tortuous path for the penetration of gaseous vapors and liquids into the polymer.
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
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The vapors are odorless, and victims may not know they have been exposed until symptoms develop.
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'Urchin blasts' is probably here used generally for what in _Arcades_, 49-53, are called "noisome winds and blasting vapours chill,"'urchin' being common in the sense of 'goblin'
Milton's Comus
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The revelation gave a new frisson to such descriptions as that of Silas Wegg, stumping triumphantly over the mounds, his wooden leg puncturing the surface crust, leaving a trail of mephitic vapours behind him.
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Friends of the Earth claims that classroom dust containing microscopic plasticizers is a proxy for the release of phthalate outgasses aka, offgasses; vapors slow released from soft plastic that campaigners claim causes everything from coughs to cancer but there's no scientific evidence that outgasses are dangerous.
Jon Entine: Plastic Wars: Science Loses in Renewed Campaign Against Plasticizers
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
The Second Part of King Henry IV
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May the ghosts of the men who mar the earth, turning her sweet rivers into channels of filth, and her living air into irrespirable vapours and pestilences, haunt the desolations they have made, until they loathe the work of their hands, and turn from themselves with a divine repudiation.
Malcolm
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In order to protect children from exposure to harmful vapors, the toy industry has discontinued the use of PVC to produce plastics used in their products.
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There always remained a cohesive substance, although it was charred and friable, which by reason of its bad conductivity of heat protected the roof boarding to such an extent that it was "browned" only by the developed tar vapors.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
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If fumes or fuliginous vapours and air permeate this vessel, as they do the pulmonary bronchia, wherefore do we find neither air nor fuliginous vapours when we divide the pulmonary vein?
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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Farther, the air being variously impregnated, sometimes more and sometimes less, with vapours and exhalations fitted to retund and intercept the rays of light, it follows that the appearance of the horizontal moon hath not always an equal faintness, and by consequence that luminary, though in the very same situation, is at one time judged greater than at another.
A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
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What amazing vapors a lonely man may get into his head!
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It was surrounded by a glowing ethereal light and swirling vapours.
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It is, therefore, in this and the analogous processes of roasting, that the sulphurous and arsenous vapours are so profusely given off.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852
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The itemisers are sophisticated computers capable of detecting microscopic vapours and particles of illicit narcotics from air and surface samples on baggage and cargo.
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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The nonelectric coolers instead use natural gas (or some other source of heat) to boil a special liquid, a lithium bromide solution, and when the vapors from that solution condense, they cool whatever is near them.
Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town
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His breath was yeasty with alcoholic vapours, his eyes bleary and red as if he'd been drinking all night.
THE BROKEN GOD
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You can’t buy alcohol legally and then redistill it, because the action of evaporating alcohol and condensing the vapors back into alcohol is illegal unless it’s done in a registered, permitted still.
CHASING the WHITE DOG
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Strange vapors burst out of the factory during the accident.
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One canister handles the fueltank vapors, and the other handles the carburetor float - bowl vapors.
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Gas vapors are incredibly explosive - one cup of evaporated gas is equal to four sticks of dynamite!
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Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives.
Slashfood
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‘If you have ever got the vapours when your teenager has stood beside your fixed-line phone making an expensive mobile call, then this addresses the problem,’ he said.
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There were ointments and vapours, and also suppositories and purgatives.
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In the morning the bright sun rose and quickly ate up the thin ice covering the water, and the warm air was all atremble, filled with the vapors of the reviving earth.
Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
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Jack, thy wit being blinded, and full of gross vapors, by reason of the perturbations of fear (which, like anger, is a short madness, and raises in the phantasy vain spectres, — videlicet, of sharks and Spaniards), mistakes our lucidity.
Westward Ho!
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Knowing as we do how lucrative being an MP can be, even if it means having to jettison any personal honour one may have, it is unsurprising that ‘LibDem’ MPs with wafer thin majorities should be having a fit of the vapours at the thought of being confronted by something truly democratic (Let the People Have Their Say!) as opposed to their ersatz version of democracy (‘Do as you are told!’).
Lib 'Dems' Squirm On The Hook
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Clark himself - who was so pro-Thatcher he had a fit of the vapours in her presence - was not a fan.
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I think I d have loved to be alive in an era of elegance and old-fashioned manners where ladies had attacks of the vapours and the gentlemen were just that - gentlemen.
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Glue, degreaser and dye vapours could also affect brain functions up to 50 years later.
The Sun
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“For tear-free chopping, mincing, dicing, slicing—fear no onion,” reads the packaging for RSVP Onion Goggles shown, whose antifog lenses and foam seal are designed to protect your eyes from irritating onion vapors.
Claim Check: Onion Goggles
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Dry walls and floors with fans, which turn moisture into vapor, and dehumidifiers, which then pull vapors down a drain.
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When the foul vapours build up, they're released through the manhole covers, befouling our proud city streets.
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Oh, under that hideous covelet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid!
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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The vapors gradually condensed in diluvial rains, which fell as if they had leapt from the necks of thousands of millions of seltzer water bottles.
The Underground City
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But yet as long as I remain in this great hospital, this sick, this diseaseful world, as long as I remain in this leprous house, this flesh of mine, this heart, though thus prepared for thee, prepared by thee, will still be subject to the invasion of malign and pestilent vapours.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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The nanofiller also creates a tortuous path for the penetration of gaseous vapors and liquids into the polymer.
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It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts.
Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
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A couple of months ago when Deborah Howell was "deluged" with "uncivilized" comments about her failure to correct a blatant misrepresentation, the Washington Post ombudsman and others had a shrieking fit of the vapors and spent days on the fainting couch mumbling incoherently about the rude insults they had to endure.
Hullabaloo
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We learn that the Indians in the Mojave Desert inhaled the vapors from boiling creosote to treat respiratory infections.
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Hence the lungs do not inspire sufficient air to mitigate the innate heat of the heart, and the heart fails to purify itself of the fumosity or fumous vapors generated in itself.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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Their judgment was overclouded by some venereous fumes and vapors.
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And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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“For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law
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Note 126: Locally distilled liquor, called moonshine by the twentieth century, was made with molasses, hops, and oats boiled in a pot from which a coiling tube extended; the coil was passed through cold water, causing the vapors from the boiling mixture to condense.
Gutenber-e Help Page
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Rene Descartes notes that there are people "whose cerebella are so troubled and clouded by the violent vapours of black bile, that they ... imagine that they have an earthenware head or are nothing but pumpkins or are made of glass.
Warranted Christian Belief
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Colonies were stained with iodine vapors and photographed.
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Thus this box is a coppel in which the essences of all created things, the finest and the grossest, vapours and juices, the soft soothing oils, the bitternesses and tartnesses which at first seem grating, the flavour which evaporates in a momentary enjoyment, are put to the test.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
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The use of sprays can lead to an indoor build-up of large quantities of carcinogenic vapours.
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Arc flash hazard: Danger associated with the arc flash (e.g., the possibility of radiation burns, inhalation of vapors, temporary blindness, hearing damage, lung damage, barotrauma, and injury from projectiles).
CSE - Top Articles
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The morning vapors were fast rolling their snowy wreaths down the opposite mountains, whose heads, shining in resplendent purple, seemed to view themselves in the bright reflections of the now smooth sea.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Sir Roderick Murchison and his friends were at first inclined to explain these phenomena by supposing that the chief fissure communicated with some surface of rock-salt, 'the saliferous vapours of which might be so rapidly evaporated or changed in escaping to an intensely hot and dry atmosphere as to produce ice and snow.'
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
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Getting the vapors over a critic screaming his outrage in full-throated disgust at the abandonment of humane ideals is to play the courtly stooge in a manner most unbecoming an honest mind. — catalexis
Easing Off Online Obscenities - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The west wind blew strong; the clouds were heavy; now and then the moon shone on a sullen sea; now and then the darkness broke over rank maremma vapours; at times he heard the distant bellowing of the herds, at times he heard the moaning of the water; mighty cities, lost armies, slaughtered hosts, foundered fleets, were underneath that soil and sea; whole nations had their sepulchres on that low, wind-blown shore.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
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_Aguardiente_ will serve a good purpose; -- provided the head be not essentially weak, or too inflammable, it ascends you into the brain, and dries you there, as one hath said, all the nervous, crudy vapors that environ it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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She sat at the table, legs propped up on the table in a manner that would give ladies in the finer centres of Europe a case of the vapours.
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Abandoning our corsets would surely prevent the many attacks of the vapours we ladies are prone to!
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Just stepping outside is enough to give an architectural purist the vapours.
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There was an impalpable, cold dankness in the air and a strange odor, a blend of the metal of the locomotive and of coffee vapors.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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–“For everyone who gets the vapors whenever any Justice takes a peek at foreign law or practice, do you really think those Justices, or any other, would decide any case differently if they didn’t take apeek?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Sotomayor, Graham, and International Law
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Avoid foam filled sofas - they are a serious fire hazard and give off fatal fumes and petrochemical vapours when burning.
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The paraboloidal shape of the bright envelope separated by a dark interval from the head of the great comet of 1811, and constituting, as it were, the _root_ of its tail, seemed to the astronomer of Bremen to reveal the presence of a double repulsion; the expelled vapours accumulating where the two forces, solar and cometary, balanced each other, and being then swept backwards in a huge train.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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The method used to form crack allows the freebase cocaine vapors to deeply penetrate into the lungs.
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The atmosphere is constantly charged with positive electricity, -- electricity furnished by the vapors that rise from the sea, especially in tropical regions, -- and, on the other hand, the earth is negatively electrized.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
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Nor yet will the sun shine upon the earth, nor the stars send down any good influence, because the terrestrial globe hath desisted from sending up their wonted nourishment by vapours and exhalations, wherewith Heraclitus said, the Stoics proved, Cicero maintained, they were cherished and alimented.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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As yet the hills are nearly all gray, the forests also inwrapping them are gray and ghostly, for the sun has but just risen above them, and vapors hang like a veil between.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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It drew out the sympathy of the wise and the good of other lands besides our own, as the morning sun draws vapors from the earth; and from that hour the breath of prayer has been burdened for him, until he reached the happy place where dangers no more cluster, where prayer is no more needed.
The Sin of Reviling, and Its Work
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Some think these almonds have a penetrating, abstersive quality, are able to cleanse the face, and clear it from the common freckles; and therefore, when they are eaten, by their bitterness vellicate and fret the pores, and by that means draw down the ascending vapors from the head.
Symposiacs
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The air reeked of melting plastic and the woozy vapors of diesel fuel and high-test gasoline.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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When in contact with thoria, and without any apparent modification in this latter substance, the vapours of the alcohols react directly with hydrogen sulphide to give thiols, with ammonia to give primary amines, with primary amines to give secondary amines, with phenols to give mixed oxides and with fatty acids to give esters of these acids; these reactions may find important industrial applications.
Paul Sabatier - Nobel Lecture
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However, this type of bleach and its vapors are irritating to the skin, eyes, nose, and throat.
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The plain even at an early hour reeked with vapours distilled by the fires of the Samum: about noon, however, the air became cloudy, and nothing of colour remained, save that milky white haze, dull, but glaring withal, which is the prevailing day-tint in these regions.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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A nickname for the United States Department of State, whose offices were built in a formerly swampy area of Washington, D.C., known as Foggy Bottom because of vapors rising from the swamp.
Foggy Bottom
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The wind quickly diffused any toxic vapors that may have leaked out.
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These latter habiliments, impregnated with the wet of the day, but the dirt of a life, and lined with what another foot traveller in these parts call "rammish clowns," evolved rank vapours and compound odours inexpressible, in steaming clouds.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Strange vapours burst out of the factory during the accident.
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This step is followed by polymerising pyrrole vapours to produce a foam composite.
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Jules Michelet wrote in La Régence Paris, 1879 of “coffee, the sobering beverage, a mighty nutrient of the brain, unlike spiritous liquors, increases purity and clarity; coffee, which clears the imagination of fogs and heavy vapours, which illumines the reality of things with the white light of truth; antierotic coffee, which at length substitutes stimulation of the mind for stimulation of the sexual faculties!”
Savoring The Past
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He states that the “nonelectric coolers … boil a special liquid, a lithium bromide solution, and when the vapors from that solution condense, they cool whatever is near them.”
Letters to the Editor
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Overcome with the vapours and attended by some soft-footed medical practitioner who specializes in `women's ailments".
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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Extensive lung damage resulting from inhalation of the deadly vapours were the wages of his diligence.
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“In that late solary eclipse which happened on Christmas day, when the Moone was just under the Sunne, I plainly discerned that in her which may clearely confirme what the Comets and Sunne spots doe seeme to prove, _viz. _ that the heavens are not solid, nor freed from those changes which our aire is liable unto, for about the Moone I perceived such an orbe of vaporous aire, as that is which doth encompasse our earth, and as vapours and exhalations, are raised from our earth into this aire, so are they also from the Moone.”
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet
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BUT if, after a seeming Tendency to Rain, there follow several Days of fine Weather, it is a certain Indication that the Temper of the Air is altered, and that these Vapours had been driven off before they had time to condense, which is confirmed by the Change of the Wind on such
The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience
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… It monitors vapors from the skin and sends them to a modem for data collection.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Smart bracelet detects alcohol
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The other half are made by combining molecules of other vapors into larger "clumps"-a process called nucleation.
Ars Technica
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Vapors from chemical warfare agents are converted to ions by a chemical-ionization reagent gas.
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This is occasioned by the phlogistic vapours with which the air is always, more or less, impregnated; or to speak in the language of the Chymists of the present day, they become oxigenated by their union with the oxigen of the air.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Violent thunder-storms, with showers of rain and hail, are frequent accompaniments of volcanic eruptions everywhere; but owing to the coldness and dryness of the air into which the vapors from the Icelandic volcanoes ascend, their condensation is so sudden and violent that great quantities of electricity are developed.
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire
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Avoid using wood treated with creosote or penta, as the vapors can injure some plants.
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Mercury vapors can cause toxic effects on the central and peripheral nervous system, lungs, kidneys, skin, and eyes.
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His brain was clouded by vapours and dreams.
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“It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
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We learn that the Cahuilla Indians in the Mojave Desert, where we are, inhaled the vapors from boiling creosote to treat respiratory infections.
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Never ignite vapors from aerosol cans, they can explode.
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This whole topic gives me the whim-whams or the vapours.
Sears 1934: Latest Update – The Bleat.
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These can be found through the detection of gases such as sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, and vapours of mercury, iodine, and radon.
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Besides these eruptions occasioned by the steam of water, there seems to be a perpetual effusion of other vapours, more noxious and (as far as it is yet known) perhaps greatly more expansile than water from the
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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Static electricity will ignite gasoline vapors.
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You might also add a few drops of the oil to a hot bath and soak for a while, inhaling the steamy vapors.
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Liebig on traces of ammonical vapors in the atmosphere, 311.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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Cyrus Harding had only at his disposal the ordinary azotic acid and not the fuming or monohydrate azotic acid, that is to say, acid which emits white vapors when it comes in contact with damp air; but by substituting for the latter ordinary azotic acid, mixed, in the proportion of from three to five volumes of concentrated sulphuric acid, the engineer obtained the same result.
The Mysterious Island
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A box had been erected over a volcanic vent from which issued sulfurous vapors.
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A brief exposure to chloroform vapors kills vegetative cells but not zygotes.
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Simply fill a mug halfway with boiling water, add three to five drops of eucalyptus essential oil, cup your free hand over your nose and the mug and inhale the vapors for three to five minutes.
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One by one his worlds evaporated, rose beyond his vision as vapours in the hot alembic of the sun, sank for ever beneath sea-levels, themselves unreal and passing as the phantoms of a dream.
CHAPTER XXIV
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If she lived in the time of bustles and pessaries, Liz suspects that doctors would have thought she had a demon sitting on her chest at night, stealing her breath, or perhaps simply an acute case of the vapors.
Intersomnolence
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The formation of veins, that is to say, the filling up of fissures with crystalline masses bursting forth from the interior (as basalt, melaphyre, and greenstone), gradually disturbs the free intercommunication of elastic vapors.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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And thus it does not tend to decompose vapors to the same extent.
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So is there between mercury, water and watery vapors, air, and perhaps the pure and intersidereal ether.
The New Organon
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Dram: the vapours were any form of melancholia or nervous disorder; a frequent excuse for the ladies to take a "dram" -- a small quantity of drink such as gin in a cup or glass sized accordingly.
The Beggar's Opera
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The tar consists of solid particles and vapors that condense to liquid as they contact the cooler filter.
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The deadly vapors entered in, filled his huge chest and tingled in his vast, heroic limbs as he calmly lay down on the rocky, herbless floor and as gently went to sleep, as he did that day in his Mother's arms by the Graybull, long ago.
The Biography of a Grizzly
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I may call it _Lumen crepusculum_, the _Aurora_ of the Moone, or such a kinde of blushing light, that the Sunne causes when he is neere his rising, when he bestowes some small light upon the thicker vapours.
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet
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This mountain is capped by several castellated masses of basaltic lava, much weather-worn and decomposed by the acid vapours evolved from the surrounding solfataras.
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Masses of the slimy and sulphureous substance called naphtha, which floated idly on the sluggish and sullen waves, supplied those rolling clouds with new vapours, and afforded awful testimony to the truth of the Mosaic history.
The Talisman
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Fire officials say gas station explosions like this are rare, but they can be sparked by static electricity or cell phones igniting the gasoline vapors.
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Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks.
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Vapors pass over from a retort into a receiver.
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Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks.
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It appears almost impossible to elicit a strong full sound even with the mightiest sweep of the strings: it fades away immediately, and in the next moment it already echoes away strengthless in historically subdued vapours.
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La soldatoj ne venis tien per vaporsxipoj, sed estis konstruintaj ponton trans la rivero, por la veturiloj
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
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Gasoline vapors burn not the liquid.
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By contrast, Rene Descartes notes that there are people "whose cerebella are so troubled and clouded by the violent vapours of black bile, that they ... imagine that they have an earthenware head or are nothing but pumpkins or are made of glass.
Warranted Christian Belief
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The liquids in summer hill eau de toilette are meant to make to available vapors their common channel in madness to "inflate" the cushions.
Wii-volution
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Masses of the slimy and sulphureous substance called naphtha, which floated idly on the sluggish and sullen waves, supplied those rolling clouds with new vapours, and afforded awful testimony to the truth of the Mosaic history.
The Talisman
