"Effervesce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and in the cheaper varieties, alumina, starch, chalk, oxide of iron, &c., are often largely present. A good unsophisticated sample in the dry state is intense blue, almost black, hard and brittle, much resembling in appearance the best indigo, and having a similar copper-red fracture. It does not effervesce with acids, as when adulterated with chalk; nor become pasty with boiling water, as when sophisticated with starch. Further, it feels light in the hand, adheres to the tongue, is inodorous, tasteless, ...
— Field's Chromatography - or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists • George Field
... glass becomes at first grey and turbid, then begins to effervesce, which action continues during the reduction of the oxide, and it finally becomes perfectly clear. If tin be added, the glass becomes at first grey from the reduced bismuth, but, when the metal is collected into a bead, the glass is ...
— A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe • Anonymous
... named, with Portraits of his Friends hung in it; who put Jean Paul VERY SOON there, with a great explosion of praises; and who, in short, seems to have been a very good effervescent creature, at last rather wealthy too, and able to effervesce with some comfort;—Oberamtmann Fromme, I say, was this Gleim's Nephew; and stood as a kind of Royal Land-Bailiff under Frederick the Great, in a tract of country called the RHYN-LUCH (a dreadfully moory country of sands and quagmires, ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Appendix - Frederick The Great—A Day with Friedrich.—(23d July, 1779.) • Thomas Carlyle |
