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Definition of Soft scale

1. Noun. An insect active in all stages.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soft Scale

Literary usage of Soft scale

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"A smooth, russet ing the fruit. oval, convex soft scale without marking*. ... flat, soft scale, sometimes with darker markings, ..."

2. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"In the soft scale, the perihelion motion of Saturn is :aken as G. We may say that the f) of the hard scale is transposed to become the higher j of the soft ..."

3. Heat-treatment of Steel: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Hardening edited by Erik Oberg (1914)
"There is, of course, a very thin soft scale, the same as on all tools heated in a barium chloride bath, but this scale is so thin that it cannot be detected ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Some waters though very good for drinking purposes contain material which either cause the formation of soft scale, hard scale, corroding or foaming. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"soft scale.—Tho heavy oils separated in tho secondhand thinl fractionation of burning oils, and tho oil from which the above hard scale is separated, ..."

6. Lubricating Oils, Fats and Greases: Their Origin, Preparation, Properties by George Henry Hurst (1902)
"I Mixed with other drippings /and soft scale. Cooled and pressed. ... 115° F. soft scale. Paraffin scale is a mixture of oily and solid paraffins of various ..."

7. Annual Report by Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (1907)
"THE soft scale. Coccus hesperidum, Linn. This scale gets its popular name of the soft scale from the fact that its shell is soft and easily crushed. ..."

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