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Definition of Ashless
1. having no ashes [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashless
Literary usage of Ashless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standards and Tests for Reagent Chemicals by Benjamin Lindley Murray (1920)
"and filter the mixture through an ashless filter. Wash the filter with ammoniacal
water until perfectly free from copper, dissolve any residue on the filter ..."
2. Chemical and metallurgical laboratory supplies and assayers' materials by Eimer and Amend (New York, N.Y.) (1920)
"41: ashless. A double-acid washed paper possessing the same excellent qualities
as No. ... 42: ashless. This paper, also rendered ashless by the dual acid ..."
3. The Chemical Analysis of Iron: A Complete Account of All the Best Known by Andrew Alexander Blair (1918)
"Dissolve the precipitate in the crucible in a little water containing from 5 to
10 drops hydrochloric acid, filter through a small ashless filter, ..."
4. A Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis: Or, The Quantitative by Francis Sutton (1876)
"ANALYSIS OF IRON ORES. minutes, allow the precipitate to settle, filter on a
small ashless filter, ignite finally for five minutes over a blast-lamp, ..."
5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1894)
"It was acidulated with HCl,the CO., boiled out, fluid evaporated to dryness,
dried some time, moistened with HCI, taken up with H2O, and filtered ; ashless ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1899)
"A small wad of absorbent cotton is first inserted into the tube (a), then an
ashless filter paper of twelve cm. diameter is folded about the finger (placing ..."
7. American Druggist (1891)
"Of the ashless or washed papers, that known as S. & S. No. ... For final filtration
and ignition these sizes of ashless papers will be needed, ..."
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