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Definition of Substances
1. substance [n] - See also: substance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Substances
Literary usage of Substances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"BOOK ni BESIDES these complex ideas of several single substances, as of man,
horse, gold, violet, apple, &c., the mind hath also complex collective ideas of ..."
2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Organic Substances. OCCURRENCE. § 197. Along with the inorganic constituents,
which are generally well known, most waters contain larger or smaller ..."
3. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1823)
"OF THE NAMES OF Substances. §. 1. The common names of substances stand for
sorts.—The common names of substances, as well as other general terms, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"All the known substances which are optically active in solution are ...
Many substances contain an asymmetric carbon atom but are optically inactive. ..."
5. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"Other substances, such as the metals nickel and cobalt, {incapable of an inferior
degree of magnetization, and all substances when subjected to a ..."
6. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"The magnetization induced by a given magnetizing force differs in different
substances. It is greatest in the purest and softest iron, in which the ratio of ..."
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