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Usage examples of fractional.

By adding another fractional protein, lysin, the rats were made to thrive.

Sometimes it seems as if the body, relieved of its effete materials, renewed its youth after one of these quiet, expurgating, internal fractional cremations.

The obvious way to arrange for standardization is for the different banks offering fractional reserve monies to use the same commodity in the same units.

It is separated from potassium by fractional precipitation with platinic chloride.

The same field that rigidifies the amphistaff extends a fractional millimeter beyond the blade, giving it an edge no thicker than an atomic diameter.

In this way the dilution of the original millionth of a grain of medicine contained in the grain of powder operated on is carried successively to the billionth, trillionth, quadrillionth, quintillionth, and very often much higher fractional divisions.

That, recoiling from oblivion, we can recreate in a fractional moment whole years gone past, years yet to come -- striving to lengthen our existence, stretching out our apperception beyond the phantom boundaries, overdrawing upon a Barmecide deposit of minutes, staking fresh claims upon a mirage?

Nor could that block be open for more than the barest fractional millimicrosecond before or after the passage of the bolt.

Intervals between notes can be described as vectors and as certain fractional ratios between their frequencies.

The delay, in the meantime, would not be dangerous with the EDS decelerating at fractional gravity.

She was frowning, as if she had noticed the flaw in the composition, but it was a small frown, a fractional chiselling of lines between her brows.

I climbed two stories quickly, chimneying between a disused fractional distillation stack and a cooling tower.

There was not another of the conveyers in sight, but electronic and mechanical lag in the individual controls and even the distance-difference between them, and the central radio control would have prevented them from going into transposition at the same fractional microsecond.

The treatment of the minerals and the fractional crystallizations are still performed in the same way, as I did it in my laboratory, even if the material means are increased.

The working is greatly simplified by a process of elimination, based on such considerations as that certain multiplications produce a repetition of figures, and that the whole number cannot be from 12 to 23 inclusive, since in every such case sufficiently small denominators are not available for forming the fractional part.