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Definition of Tarnishes
1. tarnish [v] - See also: tarnish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarnishes
Literary usage of Tarnishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microscopic Examination of the Ore Minerals by William Myron Davy, Charles Mason Farnham (1920)
"FeCl,, Slowly tarnishes, forming bluish and yellowish coating. KOH, Neg. ...
KOH, tarnishes brown to iridescent; rubs to faint gray. Description. ..."
2. Elementary Household Chemistry: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by John Ferguson Snell (1914)
"Magnesium, zinc, and aluminium form light- colored tarnishes of this kind, ...
Lead also tarnishes rapidly by oxidation, but the oxide formed is darker in ..."
3. Elementary Household Chemistry: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by John Ferguson Snell (1914)
"Magnesium, zinc, and aluminium form light- colored tarnishes of this kind, ...
Lead also tarnishes rapidly by oxidation, but the oxide formed is darker in ..."
4. Elementary Household Chemistry: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by John Ferguson Snell (1914)
"Magnesium, zinc, and aluminium form light- colored tarnishes of this kind, ...
Lead also tarnishes rapidly by oxidation, but the oxide formed is darker in ..."
5. The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh: Revised Edition by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.), M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (2006)
"... brass pot tarnishes easily and must be constantly polished. When polished, it
looks like gold. When not polished, it discolors and eventually turns ..."
6. Advance Thought by Charles E. Glass (1876)
"... just as much as if they violated the highest divine law, for it is the deliberate
violation of a conscientious belief which tarnishes ..."
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