27 Verbs to Use for the Word density

Will you now explain how the proper quantity of water to be blown out is determined? A.By means of the salinometer, which is an instrument for determining the density of the water, constructed on the principle of the hydrometer for telling the strength of spirits.

One can judge comparative density, and therefore to some extent weight and strength, by visual inspection.

If it is desirable to decrease the density of the negatives, double the quantity of water.

As far as the murderer's eye could reach and could penetrate the density of the fog, white crag succeeded white crag, with innumerable projections which should have helped to toss a falling and inert mass as easily as if it had been an air bubble.

With reference to the "low" solar temperature pointed out, it will be perceived that the adopted expedient of increasing the density of the rays without raising the temperature by converging radiation, removes the objection urged.

I determined then gradually to diminish the density of the internal atmosphere to something not very much greater than that outside.

Recurring now to the question of climate, which is all-important, Mr. Lowell never even discusses the essential pointthe temperature that must necessarily result from an atmospheric envelope one-twelfth (or at most one-seventh) the density of our own; in either case corresponding to an altitude far greater than that of our highest mountains.

A shaft reluctantly and gloomily effused the near density of the forest; another ray gladdening the expectant eyes of the guest from Londonway; while yet another broad gleam sped the departing traveler over the threshold of the forest into the gloom-environed pathway beyond.

Having crossed it, they were turned from their course by scrub of exceeding density, which in turn was succeeded by sandy desert plains.

Bobby fancied it gathering density to cradle new mysteries.

For although it possesses an atmosphere it is estimated by Mr. Lowell (in his latest article) to have a pressure equivalent to only 2-1/2 inches of mercury with us, giving it a density of only one-twelfth part that of ours; while aqueous vapour, the chief accumulator of heat, cannot permanently exist in it, and, notwithstanding repeated spectroscopic observations for the purpose of detecting it, has never been proved to exist.

The air was reduced to half its usual density, and felt intensely cold and piercing.

All her colonies have been taken from Germany, who needed them more than any other country of continental Europe, having a density of population of 123 inhabitants per square kilometre (Italy has a density of 133 per square kilometre) while France has 74, Spain 40, and European Russia before the War had only 24.

It illustrates the density of Ellwood's stupidity, and the delicate irony of the sadly courteous poet.

Any one who reads Herodotus' description of Babylon or Ibn Serapion's of Bagdad, and considers that these vast urban masses were merely centres of collection and distribution for the open country, can infer the density of population and intensity of cultivation over the face of the Sawâd.

By keeping the density of the water in a marine boiler at the proportion of 8 or 10 oz. to the gallon, no inconvenient amount of scale will be deposited on the flues or tubes.

AN OLD HORNED-OWL Praise the density of darkness!

These facts warrant the conclusion that the high temperature established by our investigation is requisite to prevent undue density of the solar atmosphere.

There was no moon, and the thick foliage produced a deep, dark density, mysterious and sweet.

He has also, as the result of observations, reduced the probable density of the atmosphere of Mars to 2-1/2 inches of mercury, or only one-twelfth of that of the Earth.

Nothing but strokes of green paint, up and down, representing the density of an African jungle.

" [Footnote 7: In a paper written since the book appeared the density of air at the surface of Mars is said to be 1/12 of the earth's.]

Even more interesting are the facts brought out by a study of the map showing the density of population or the number of people to the square mile in the several states.

There is no apparent connection between duration and the cycloidal arch, the properties of which duly attended to, have furnished us with our best regulated methods of measuring time: and he who has made himself master of the nature and affections of the logarithmick curve, is not aware that he has advanced considerably towards ascertaining the proportionable density of the air at its various distances from the surface of the earth.'

Just beneath the bark there is a thin layer of cells which during the growing season have not attained their greatest density.

27 Verbs to Use for the Word  density