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Definition of Impurities
1. impurity [n] - See also: impurity
Medical Definition of Impurities
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Impurities
Literary usage of Impurities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel by Albert Sauveur (1918)
"Non-Metallic impurities. — There is a sharp distinction between the behavior ...
Gaseous impurities. — Steel always contains some gases, apparently held in ..."
2. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"impurities The impurities which may occur in ether and chloroform, mainly by
decomposition, ... The impurities of ether are due to tne presence of moisture, ..."
3. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"that it is not necessary to remove all impurities from the pure coal, bot a that
portion which would condemn the finished product ..."
4. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"Mineral matter, vegetable matter and occluded gases are other naturally occurring
impurities. As most of these impurities are not soluble in the bitumen ..."
5. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"From the average of all of the water and ice used for ice supplies, which they
have examined, they find: The organic impurities of snow ice (the sum of the ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1904)
"The percentage-compositions of the matte, etc., are not directly comparable for
determining the rate of elimination of the impurities; and, in the absence ..."
7. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"These impurities are readily reduced to a minimum by various mechanical processes,
... Chemical impurities. The most common of the chemical impurities are ..."
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