To return now to the four-element physics, a mixture of muddy, frothy water will, when standing in a jar, separate out with earth at the bottom, water on top, and the air on top of that.

The mixture was then extracted with alkali and with water following which the carbon tetrachloride was distilled on a Vigreux column, a 25% center cut being retained which was then degassed under vacuum in the presence of Af.

The traditional adobe roof has been generally constructed using a mixture of soil / clay, water, sand, and other available organic materials.

He determined that the components of water were oxygen and hydrogen, and that air was a mixture of gases, primarily nitrogen and oxygen.

The electrolyte is sulfuric acid or a brine mixture of carbon and water.

To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.

The cytosol is a complex mixture of cytoskeleton filaments, dissolved molecules, and water that fills much of the volume of a cell.

The coast and its adjacent areas on and off shore are an important part of a local ecosystem: the mixture of fresh water and salt water in estuaries provides many nutrients for marine life.

In Asian cooking, a similar effect is obtained from a mixture of rice or corn starch and water.

The decomposition process is aided by shredding the plant matter, adding water and ensuring proper aeration by regularly turning the mixture.

With the proper mixture of water, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen, micro-organisms are allowed to break down organic matter to produce compost.

Heraclitus regarded the soul as being a mixture of fire and water, with fire being is the more noble part and water the ignoble aspect.

The cytosol is a complex mixture of substances dissolved in water.

In Forward's Rocheworld series, an Earth-like biochemistry is proposed that uses a mixture of water and ammonia as its solvent.

The host can become rapidly dehydrated if an appropriate mixture of dilute salt water and sugar is not taken to replace the blood's water and salts lost in the diarrhea.

Cocktails were originally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters.

In other cases, severe deviations from Raoult's law and Dalton's law are observed, most famously in the mixture of ethanol and water.

The vapor mixture is cooled and condensed, usually yielding a layer of oil and a layer of water.

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

The lowest temperature was achieved by preparing a frigorific mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride ( a salt ), and waiting for it to reach equilibrium.

The practice of the Coptic Church is that the mixture should be two parts wine to one part water.

These blocks form a very complex mixture or mélange of rocks that include mainly serpentinite, basalt, dolerite and chert ( e. g. Bergougnan, 1975 ).

The dust particles were found to be primarily a mixture of carbon-hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen ( CHON ) compounds common in the outer Solar System, and silicates, such as are found in terrestrial rocks.

Oil shale and similar materials are sedimentary rocks containing kerogen, a complex mixture of high-molecular weight organic compounds, which yield synthetic crude oil when heated ( pyrolyzed ).

The architecture was often a mixture of styles in timber cut from local forests, and stone hewn from local rocks.

Barrington Tops is a plateau between two of the large peaks in the range, The park is believed to be an extinct volcano and the mountain ranges are made up of a mixture of sedimentary rocks with a granite top.

* Pholus has been suggested to be covered by a mixture of Titan-like tholins, carbon black, olivineA class of Magnesium Iron Silicates ( Mg, Fe )< sub > 2 </ sub > SiO < sub > 4 </ sub >, common components of igneous rocks .</ ref > and methanol ice.

Kerogen is a mixture of organic chemical compounds that make up a portion of the organic matter in sedimentary rocks.

The rocks of Bray Head are a mixture of greywackes and quartzite.

The manuscript does not take the form of a single linear script, but is rather a mixture of Leonardo's observations and theories on astronomy ; the properties of water, rocks, and fossils ; air, and celestial light.

Most soil consists of moraine, a grayish yellow mixture of sand and rocks, with a thin layer of humus on top.

Writing in the early 18th century Martin Martin recorded that " this little isle is the most unequal rocky piece of ground to be seen anywhere: there is but very few acres fit for digging, the whole is covered with long heath, erica-baccifera, mertillus, and some mixture of grass ; it is reckoned very fruitful in pasturage: most of the rocks consist of the hectic stone, and a considerable part of them is of a red colour.

South of the gneisses are a complex mixture of rocks forming the North West Highlands and Grampian Highlands in Scotland.

The terrain is generally flat, and consists of glacial drift which is a mixture of various rocks, sand and clay.

In his notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci wrote of pareidolia as a device for painters, writing " if you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various different landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys, and various groups of hills.

* The distribution of rocks of different sizes in an aggregate mixture that is being shaken ( with gravity acting on the rocks ).

Kerogen is a mixture of organic chemical compounds that make up a portion of the organic matter in sedimentary rocks.

As noted by Digby and numerous later publications, this archipelago consists of a mixture of folded and faulted sedimentary and igneous rocks ranging in age from Precambrian to Pliocene.

The western coast is a mixture of sand beaches and rocky cliff promontories: around Cabo da Roca, cliffs are more than 100 metres in height, and cut into crystalline rocks, composed of strongly folded and faulted sedimentary units.

Most maars have low rims composed of a mixture of loose fragments of volcanic rocks and rocks torn from the walls of the diatreme.

It was a mixture of Gold and Bronze, made from flakes of gold extracted from rivers ; these flakes were pounded with rocks until they melted together into a small disc which the Cacique could wear around his neck or some other part of the body.

Erosion at the base of glaciers is powerful enough to pick up large rocks and boulders as well as soil ; soils dropped by melting ice can be a well graded mixture of widely varying particle sizes.

During the plate collisions, these rocks were considerably faulted and crushed into melange, which is a mixture of ground-up matrix and resistant pockets of rock floating within.

* The distribution of rocks of different sizes in an aggregate mixture that is being shaken ( with gravity acting on the rocks ).