"Turbidity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the water of streams differ at these times in turbidity and in the relative amount of ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton
... few drops of nitro-glycerine are placed in a test tube, and shaken up with methyl-alcohol (previously tested with distilled water, to see that it produces no turbidity), and filtered, on the addition of distilled water, the solution will become milky, and the nitro-glycerine will separate out, and finally collect at the ...
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford
... the indigo commence, it assumes the color of Madeira wine; and speedily afterwards, in the course of beating, a small round grain is formed, which, on separating, makes the water transparent, and falls down, when all the turbidity and froth vanish. ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds
... likewise known volume of CO{2}, it will be easy to ascertain how much CO{2} a certain air contains, from the volume of the latter that it will be necessary to pass through the basic solution in order to obtain the amount of turbidity that has been taken as a standard. The problem consists in determining the minimum of air required to make the known solution turbid. Hence the name "minimetric estimation," that has been given ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various
... and turbid; little bubbles will be seen rising to the surface, and their abundance will increase until the liquid hisses as if it were simmering on the fire. By degrees, some of the solid particles which produce the turbidity of the liquid collect at its surface into a scum, which is blown up by the emerging air-bubbles into a thick, foamy froth. Another moiety sinks to the bottom, and accumulates as a muddy ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley |
