Sentence Examples

  • The most important export is fish, other items being seaweed, marble, preserved foods, butter and margarine and infusorial earth.
  • The organic world (like the world as a whole) arises out of a primitive chaos, namely, the infusorial slime.
  • Other mineral substances obtained in small quantities are: pyrite, in St Lawrence county; arsenical ore, in Putnam county; red, green and purple slate, in Washington county; garnet in Warren, Essex and St Lawrence counties; emery and felspar, in Westchester county; and infusorial earth in Herkimer county.
  • - Mixtures of animal, vegetable and mineral substances are employed in great variety in the arts for making joints, mending broken china and other objects, &c. A strong cement for alabaster and marble, which sets in a day, may be prepared by mixing 12 parts of Portland cement, 8 of fine sand and 1 of infusorial earth, and making them into a thick paste with silicate of soda; the object to be cemented need not be heated.
  • It was followed by the Berkefield filter, constructed of baked infusorial earth.
 
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