These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Solid Shot, Solids, Solingen.
See HOLLOW SHOT. Solubility, or Solubleness, is the susceptibility of a body to being dissolved in a fluid. Solution is favored by whatever weakens cohesion. When the force of adhesion of the particles of a liquid for a solid exceeds the whole cohesive force of the latter, its cohesion is overcome and solution occurs, which means that the solid disappears and mixes uniformly with the liquid. See SATURATION; ADHESION.
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Matter exists in three forms--solid, liquid, and gaseous. When the particles of a body cohere, as in ice, metals, etc., so that they cannot move among themselves, it is said to be a solid. All solids, except clay, are expanded by heat, but not equally. (See EXPANSION.) Clay contracts in baking and ever afterwards remains so. Solids are melted by heat, and the process is termed liquefaction. A solid is firm and compact, and, unlike fluids, offers a sensible resistance to penetration and impression. See FLUIDS.
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a town of Prussia; 13 miles E. of Düsseldorf and not far from the river Wupper . Ever since the 12th or 13th century it has been famous for its steel and iron ware, especially for sword blades, helmets, cuirasses , knives, scissors, surgical instruments, etc., which, before the World War, were exported to all parts of the world. Solingen has also iron foundries, cigar factories, etc. Pop. about 50,000.
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The method of making the Mirror of Solomon, which is used for purposes of divination, is as follows: Take a shining and well-polished plate of fine steel, slightly concave, and with the blood of a white pigeon inscribe at the four corners the names-Jehovah, Eloym, Metatron, Adonay. Place the mirror in a clean and white cloth, and when you behold a new moon during the first hour after sunset, repeat a prayer that the angel Anaël may command and ordain his companions to act as they are instructed; that is, to assist the operator in divining from the mirror. Then cast upon burning coals a suitable perfume, at the same time uttering a prayer. Repeat this thrice, then breathe upon the mirror and evoke the angel Anaël. The sign of the cross is then made upon the operator and upon the mirror for forty-five days in succession-at the end of which period Anaël appears in the form of a beautiful child to accomplish the operator's wishes. Sometimes he appears on the fourteenth day, according to the devotion and fervour of the operator. The perfume used in evoking him is saffron.
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in astronomy, the time when the sun is in one of the solstitial points that is, when it is at its greatest distance from the equator-and is so called because he then appears to stand still, and not to change his distance from the equator for some time. There are two solstices in each year-the summer and the winter solstice. The former is when the sun seems to enter the tropic of Cancer, which is on June 21, the longest day; the latter solstice is when the sun enters the first degree, or seems to describe the tropic of Capricorn, which is on Dec. 22, the shortest da day. This is only to be understood of the Northern Hemisphere, as in the Southern the sun's entrance into Capricorn makes the summer solstice, and into Cancer the winter solstice.
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sol'stis-es (sun standing), the stationary points in the sun's northern and southern courses. In spring, as the days increase in length, the sun seems to pass higher in the heavens each day. The day on which the summer sun reaches its highest midday point is the summer solstice. It occurs on or about the 21st of June and is the longest day of the year. For the following six months the midday point of the sun is farther and farther down the sky. The day on which the sun hangs lowest at midday in the northern hemisphere , or midwinter, is the day on which the midday position of the sun is highest in the southern hemisphere ; that is to say, our winter solstice is the summer solstice south of the equator. See Seasons
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in ordinary language, the act of separating the parts of any body; disruption, breach; also, the act of solving, explaining, answering, or clearing up, as a problem, question, doubt; the state of being solved, explained, answered, or cleared up; or, that which serves to solve, explain, answer, or clear up a problem, question, doubt, or the like, explanation, resolution. In chemistry, a term applied to the product of the action, as well as the action itself, whereby a solid or gaseous body in contact with a liquid suffers liquefaction; or to the union of one liquid with another when each is capable of taking up only a limited quantity of the other.
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a city of New York, in Onondaga co. It is on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western, and the New York Central and Hudson River railroads, and on the State Barge Canal. It joins Syracuse on the west. Its chief industries are the manufacture of chemicals, pottery, and iron. The city has a public library and a high school building. Pop. (1910) 5,139; (1920) 7,352.
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ERNEST, a Belgian chemist, born in 1838. His chief investigations were connected with the development of the ammonia process for the manufacture of soda and its establishment on a commercial basis. He erected his first plant in Belgium in 1863. His processes were continually improved and patents covering it were granted. gra He established est plants in all parts of the world and by 1913 practically had acquired control of the world's supply of soda. He founded the Solvay Institute in Brussels for the advancement of social democracy, and was also active in philanthropic work. He made large gifts to educational institutions in Paris and in Belgium, and was president of the Belgian Academy of Letters. During the World War he took an active part in relieving the distress of Belgium, although the greater part of his fortune was taken by the Germans during their occupation of Belgium.
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