Lexicographical Neighbors of Caracts
Literary usage of Caracts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1810)
"Reaumur says, in the " Memoires de 1'Academie des Sciences," for 1718, p. 87,
that the gold of the river Ceze is 18 caracts S grains fine ; of the Rhone, ..."
2. Practical Arithmetic: In Four Books ... Extracted from the Large and Entire by John Gough, W. Atkinson (1813)
"The question is, how much alloy must be put to it to make it22 caracts fine?
Aa Answ. * An ounce of pure gold being reduced into 24 equal par's, ..."
3. A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as Private Tuition by Charles Hutton, Robert Adrain (1831)
"Ans. 20|| caracts fine. ALLIGATION ALTERNATE. ALLIGATION ALTERNATE is the method
of finding what quantity of any number of simples, whose rates are given, ..."
4. A Course of Mathematics ...: For the Use of Academies, as Well as Private by Charles Hutton (1816)
"6 Having melted together 7 oz of gold of 22 caracts fine, ... and 17 oz of 19
caracts fine: I •would know the fineness of the composition ? ..."
5. A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as Private Tuition by Charles Hutton, Robert Adrain (1831)
"Ans. 2(ty$. caracts fine. ALLIGATION ALTERNATE. ALLIGATION ALTERNATE is the method
of finding what quantity of any number of simples, whose rates are given, ..."
6. A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the by Charles Hutton (1811)
"How much gold of 15, of 17. and of 22 caracts fine, must be mixed with 5 oz of
18 caracts fine, so that the composition may be 20 ..."