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Definition of Pastiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastiness
Literary usage of Pastiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In limiting the diameter at the tuyeres to I2j ft., the height of the boshes to
one which will keep their upper end below the region of pastiness, and their ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In limiting the diameter at the tuyeres to 12) ft., the height of the boshes to
one which will keep their upper end below the region of pastiness, and their ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"Solubility of the residue obtained by dissolving pure antimony in dilute nitric
acid (1-3) evaporated to pastiness. Dilution forty cc. ..."
4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1896)
"Alkaline carbonates, or alkaline silicates, so common in natural waters, greatly
promote the process, causing the aqueo-igneous pastiness or aqueo-igneous ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1839)
"The power of being welded is entirely due to this latter condition of intermediate
pastiness between fluidity and solidity, and hence it is properly not ..."
6. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1909)
"... the narrowing region of the ihes, and descends freely enough, because the only
solid is the coke, ;lf perfectly dry and without suggestion of pastiness. ..."
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