10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAXLIKE»
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Bl— 15 to 20 inches, brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam, dark brown (10YR 3/3) moist;
moderate, medium, prismatic structure parting to moderate, medium, sub-
angular blocky; hard, very friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; few, thin,
waxlike ...
United States. Bureau of Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1976
B21t— 9 to 24 inches, reddish-brown (5YR 5/3) sandy clay loam, dark reddish
brown (5YR 3/3) moist: moderate, coarse, prismatic structure parting to moderate,
coarse, subangular blocky ; slightly hard, very friable ; thin waxlike patches on ...
United States. Bureau of Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1975
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
Softer, waxlike. A little sulphur present. Softer, waxlike, but contains some
yellowish- green matter. A little sulphur present. > Test carried out in a similar
way with palmitic acid gave a definite precipitate. The various fractions of wax
were tested ...
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Canadian Patent Office Record
comprising a compressible cushioning portion seated against the shot and a
piston portion seated against the powder, said piston portion comprising a fibrous
felted body substantially completely impregnated with a waxlike lubricating ...
Canada. Patent Office, 1951
This is where the coolant leaves the engine block on its way to the heat
exchanger. Detroit's diesel engine thermostats ' consist of a brass cup filled with a
heatexpansive, waxlike material (see diagram). This compound is sealed within
the cup ...
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
n. the bare waxlike patch at the base of the upper part of the beak in birds.—adj.
Cerā′ceous, of or like wax.—ns.Cerā′go, a waxlike substance (beebread)
used by bees as food; Cere′cloth, Cere′ment, a cloth dipped in meltedwax in ...
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Coatings Materials and Surface Coatings
Several other natural waxlike products from plant and animal sources had a
similar chemical makeup. The definition of a wax was still fairly vague. If the chain
length of a substance was longer than the C16 to C18 associated with fatty acids,
...
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Edison, His Life and Inventions:
Another difficulty encountered in the commercial development of the phonograph
was the adjustment of the recordingstylus so as toenter the waxlike surface to a
very slight depth,and of the reproducerso astoengageexactly therecord when ...
Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin, 2014
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The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov
It could serve as an epigraph for the complex chapter of Nabokovs biography that
deals with his relationship to Russia. In “Fame,” one ofthe first poems ofhis
American period, the same theme acquires vital new nuances: a “waxlike” “
character” ...
Vladimir E. Alexandrov, 2014
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Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan ...
The heavy waxlike substances vaporize at the surface and recondense in the
cooler temperatures below. Acting like oil, they coat soil particles and establish
the hydrophobic layer—one to six centimetres down. Above that layer, where the
...
William Deverell, Greg Hise, 2005
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAXLIKE»
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waxlike is used in the context of the following news items.
New Tougher Bedbugs Are Harder Than Ever to Kill
Entomologist Dini Miller of Virginia Tech says bedbugs probably developed thicker, denser, waxlike exoskeletons, also called cuticles, that repel chemicals in ... «Popular Science, May 11»
Center encourages aerospace entrepreneurs
He developed a paraffin actuator, a mechanism filled with a waxlike substance that melts when it reaches a certain temperature, flipping a switch. The device ... «CNN, Feb 09»
