Composition
an arrangement which a bankrupt or person in pecuniary difficulties makes with his creditors, and by which he arranges to pay them a certain proportion only of the debts due.
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Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Composition of Some Valuable Alloys
Palladium. Aluminium. Gold. Silver.
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Composts
in agriculture, are mixtures of various fertilizing substances.
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Compound Animal
an animal which, originally simple, develops into a few fe or many others, which retain physical connection with the parent instead of being sooner or later detached in the normal way.
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Compound Fracture
a fracture in which the bone is broken and the surrounding integuments have been pierced, making a wound from the external surface to the seat of the fracture.
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Compound or Physical Pendulum
A heavy weight suspended from a fixed point by means of a slender thread or wire as shown in Fig.247.
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Compound Spirits
rectified spirits to which has been added one or more flavoring ingredients. They are called also compounds. The chief compounds are gin, British rum, British brandy, and some grades of American whisky, cordials and liquors.
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Compound Steam-Engine
a form of steam-engine originally patented by Hornblower in 1781, in which steam at a relatively greater pressure was alexpand in a small cylinder, and lowed to then, escaping into a larger cylinder, to expand itself against a larger piston. expar Compound engines are of two classes, which may be called compound and independent compound engines. The former are those in which the cylinders are near each other, and the pistons commence their respective strokes simultaneously or nearly so, the steam excylinder direct to the panding from one other through as small a passage as convenient. To this class belong most land engines, and the compound marine with cranks at about 130°.
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Compounding of Felony
the accepting of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute; or the agreeing to receive one's goods again from a thief on condition of not prosecuting. This is an offense punishable by fine and imprisonment.
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Compressed Air Engine
an engine which is actuated by air under pressure, which air has been compressed by mechanical means. Air under pressure is able to act as a piston of an engine in the same manner as steam, and an ordinary steam engine is capable of being operated by compressed air by merely changing a few connections. The average compressed air engine is small in size, and usually designed for some special use, and is generally located in some distance from the source of power, or in place where the discharge of exhaust steam would be objectionable, as in a mine. Air under pressure can be COMPRESSED AIR LOCOMOTIVE 95 more easily transported a distance than can steam, which loses some of its power through condensation.
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Compressed Air Locomotive
locomotive in which the a power is furnished by air under pressure. These locomotives resemble a steam locomotive, except that in place of the steam generating apparatus they carry tanks of air under pressure, which tanks have to be recharged at a pumping station. The principal use is in chemical works, explosive plants, textile works, mines, lumber mills, cotton presses; in fact, anywhere that every precaution against fire has to be taken. The mining locomotive may be taken as a typical example of a compressed air locomotive. The air is carried in one or two steel tanks, the capacity of is which determined by the use: load, length of haul, etc., which is to be made of the locomotive. These tanks are placed in the same position that the boiler would occupy on a steam locomotive, and the air is conducted to an auxiliary tank, the pressure in which can be controlled, from which tank it is conducted to the engine cylinders. The flow of the air is controlled by a reducing and a stop valve. For a number of years an attempt was made to operate street railway motor cars with air. In New York City several cross-town lines were equipped with cars carrying tanks under the floor of the car or under the seats. In most cases modern engineering uses some form of electric vehicle such as the storage battery locomotive, in place of the compressed air locomotive.
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Compressed Air Treatment
a system of treatment in which use is made of air under pressure. The treatment is used for tuberculosis, and in some forms for asthma and chronic bronchitis. There are two main methods of administering the treatment. In the first the patient is placed in an air-tight chamber, and the pressure of the air is increased. In this case the pressure on all parts of the body is the same, and is said to cause increased absorption of od, the paoxygen. In the second method, tient is placed in a cabinet, a tube which he places in his mouth being the only connection with the outside air, and the air pressure in the cabinet is reduced; thus the pressure on the lungs is greater than on any other part of the body, which may relieve collapse of the pul monary vesicles.
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Compressed Castings
This process is for making fine and artistic castings in brass, bronze, German-silver, aluminum, etc., and consists of preparing hard moulds containing the impress of the articles to be cast, the outside edges of which are square, so that they may be packed one on the other, and, when so packed, the gate of each leads to a central spruce. These are closely packed in an air-tight box. An opening in the cover-plate of the box directly connected with the sprue leads into a cylindrical reservoir containing the molten metal. This cylinder is lined with asbestos felt, the hole into the sprue being also covered with it, preventing the exit of the metal from the reservoir until the proper time. A piston, covered also with asbestos, fits closely into the cylinder, and pressure may be applied to it by hand through the action of a lever, rack and pinion, a screw or by other means. The reservoir being filled with the proper quantity of molten metal and the piston entered into the cylinder, connection may be opened between the mould and the vacuum-tank, causing the air in the mould to be drawn out, and at the same time pressure of any required degree may be applied to the piston. This pressure bursts that portion of the asbestos lining that lies immediately over the hole in the cover-plate, and the metal is instantaneously shot into every portion of the matrix in the mould.
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