Frequently chemicals sold commercially as amyl compounds will be a mixture of several isomers.

Then Paul Vieille went one step further in 1882-84 and, after many trials and errors, succeeded in transforming guncotton into a colloidal substance by gelatinizing it in an alcohol-ether mixture following which he stabilized it with amyl alcohol.

They have found that various alcohols, aldehydes and organic acids were synthesized in reaction mixture.

Additional leachate volume is produced during this decomposition of carbonaceous material producing a wide range of other materials including methane, carbon dioxide and a complex mixture of organic acids, aldehydes, alcohols and simple sugars.

In a landfill that receives a mixture of municipal, commercial, and mixed industrial waste, but excludes significant amounts of concentrated specific chemical waste, landfill leachate may be characterized as a water-based solution of four groups of contaminants ; dissolved organic matter ( alcohols, acids, aldehydes, short chain sugars etc.

Tertiary alcohols react immediately with Lucas reagent as evidenced by turbidity owing to the low solubility of the organic chloride in the aqueous mixture.

Policosanol is a mixture of a few fatty alcohols derived from the waxes of such plants as sugar cane and yams, as well as beeswax.

The Mongols also used adhesives to make their short bows, and the Native Americans of the eastern United States used a mixture of spruce gum and fat as adhesives to fashion waterproof seams in their birchbark canoes.

It is also used as a quantitive test of unsaturation, expressed as the bromine number of a single compound or mixture.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

A Board of Directors is normally made up of members ( Directors ) who are a mixture of corporate officials who are also management employees of the company ( inside directors ) and persons who are not employed by the company in any capacity ( outside directors or non-executive directors ).

He also proposed that in the real world, no group was either pure Gemeinschaft or pure Gesellschaft, but, rather, a mixture of the two will do.

It is uncertain where it was first discovered that a combination of hydrated non-hydraulic lime and a pozzolan produces a hydraulic mixture ( see also: Pozzolanic reaction ), but concrete made from such mixtures was first used by the Ancient Macedonians and three centuries later on a large scale by Roman engineers.

The volume concentration ( also called volume fraction ) is defined as the volume of a constituent divided by the volume of all constituents of the mixture prior to mixing:

High boiling azeotropes, such as a 20 weight percent mixture of hydrochloric acid in water, also exist.

Multi-frequency signaling ( see also MF ) is a group of signaling methods that use a mixture of two pure tone ( pure sine wave ) sounds.

He also described diabetic gangrene, and treated diabetes using a mixture of lupine, trigonella ( fenugreek ), and zedoary seed, which produces a considerable reduction in the excretion of sugar, a treatment which is still prescribed in modern times.

Five-spice powder is a mixture of five spices used primarily in Chinese cuisine but also used in other Asian cookery.

* sulfur ( S ), which, while also serving as a fuel, lowers the temperature required to ignite the mixture, thereby increasing the rate of combustion.

The brazier, burning a match of linen or flax that produced intense heat and the characteristic thick smoke, was used to heat oil and the other ingredients in an airtight tank above it, a process that also helped to dissolve the resins into a fluid mixture.

Most browsers also display a warning to the user when visiting a site that contains a mixture of encrypted and unencrypted content.

The garbage-sand mixture is also used to protect the house from flooding.

Many islands in the West Indies, most notably Jamaica, also use hominy to make a sort of porridge with corn starch or flour to harden the mixture and condensed milk, vanilla and nutmeg to taste.

From that time icons began to be painted not only in the traditional stylized and nonrealistic mode, but also in a mixture of Russian stylization and Western European realism, and in a Western European manner very much like that of Catholic religious art of the time.

She also is what I consider a classic Indian beauty .... her natural, distinctive Indian looks set her apart from many other heroines ( I say heroines because many have yet to learn to act, and cannot justfully be called actresses yet ), she proves that she does not need blatant blond / red highlights, tons of body paint and makeup, blue contacts, and scraps of clothes to look beautiful ... and that the complete following of Western trends isn ´ t worth sacrificing traditional Indian beauty, grace, and respect for popularity ... a mixture of both that remains respectable ... it ´ s quality rather than quantity ( or lackthereof, in the clothes department ).

* The Nowell Codex, also a mixture of poetry and prose.

Pytheas also speaks of the waters around Thule and of those places where land properly speaking no longer exists, nor sea nor air, but a mixture of these things, like a " marine lung ", in which it is said that earth and water and all things are in suspension as if this something was a link between all these elements, on which one can neither walk nor sail.

It is also common to combine radiation therapy with surgery, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy or some mixture of the four.

Some bacteria use conjugation to transfer genetic material between cells ; while not the same as sexual reproduction, this also results in the mixture of genetic traits.

In their oral tradition the Mende still describe themselves as being a mixture of two peoples: they say that their original members were hunters and fishers who populated the area sparsely in small peaceful settlements ; they say that their leaders came later, in a recent historical period, bringing with them the arts of war, and also building larger, more permanent villages.

It also contains a mixture of grain sizes and colors, and hence has less eye appeal.

On this, she builds an `` egg compartment '' or `` egg cell '' which is filled with that famous pollen-and-nectar mixture called beebread.

If there is a mixture of only two types of atoms, not counting impurities, such as a copper-nickel alloy, then it is called a binary alloy.

If there are three types of atoms forming the mixture, such as iron, nickel and chromium, then it is called a ternary alloy.

Because the percentage of each constituent can be varied, with any mixture the entire range of possible variations is called a system.

Agar is a mixture of two components: the linear polysaccharide agarose, and a heterogeneous mixture of smaller molecules called agaropectin.

Strictly speaking, a mixture of compounds, elements or compounds and elements is not a chemical substance, but it may be called a chemical.

Even if the initial regulation was well-intentioned ( to curb actual abuses ), and even if the initial lobbying by corporations was well-intentioned ( to reduce illogical regulations ), the mixture of business and government stifle competition, a collusive result called regulatory capture.

In European cooking, a mixture of butter and flour called a roux is used to thicken liquids to make stews or sauces.

The mixture is dissolved in a fluid called the mobile phase, which carries it through a structure holding another material called the stationary phase.

In Northeastern Brazil and among the diaspora of its population in other Brazilian regions, cuzcuz ( locally, in Rio de Janeiro, in São Paulo ), a steamed cake of couscous and corn flour ( a mixture called fubá, pronounced, said to be of African origin from the slave trade ), is a popular meal, served in many forms: With sugar and milk, with varied meats, with cheese and eggs, and so on.

When a binary mixture is evaporated and the other component, e. g. a salt, has zero partial pressure for practical purposes, the process is simpler and is called evaporation in engineering.

In naval warfare, the fleet of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I ( r. 491 – 518 ) is recorded by the chronicler John Malalas as having utilized a sulphur-based mixture to defeat the revolt of Vitalian in AD 515, following the advice of a philosopher from Athens called Proclus.

But his outstanding talents, and the obvious fact that he stood high in Hitler ’ s regard, earned Goebbels the grudging respect of the anti-intellectual brawlers of the Nazi movement, who called him " our little doctor " with a mixture of affection and amusement.

A serving of the resulting mixture is typically called a " Jell-O shot " at parties.

Carl Auer von Welsbach used a mixture of 60 % magnesium oxide, 20 % lanthanum oxide and 20 % yttrium oxide which he called Actinophor, and patented in 1885.

Some Ashkenazim do not cook with matzah, believing that mixing it with water may allow leavening ; the mixture is called " gebrochts " by Ashkenazic Jews.

The vapor pressure that a single component in a mixture contributes to the total pressure in the system is called partial vapor pressure.

The mantle of the mollusk deposits layers of calcium carbonate ( CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub >) in the form of the mineral aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite ( polymorphs with the same chemical formula, but different crystal structures ) held together by an organic horn-like compound called conchiolin.

Each of the three beams is called a component of that color, and each of them can have an arbitrary intensity, from fully off to fully on, in the mixture.

An Eastern body of Christian Sabbath-keepers mentioned from the 8th century to the 12th is called Athenians (" touch-not ") because they abstained from uncleanness and intoxicating drinks, called Athinginians in Neander: " This sect, which had its principal seat in the city of Armorion, in upper Phrygia, where many Jews resided, sprung out of a mixture of Judaism and Christianity.