What is "sampled"

Usage examples of "sampled".

The further precaution that if any dross be on the surface of the metal it shall be skimmed off and separately sampled and assayed is almost too obvious to require mention.

The quantity of cement sampled is sufficient for the tests required under the specifications of the Isthmian Canal Commission, as well as for preliminary tests made by the cement company, and check tests made at the Geological Survey laboratory, at Pittsburg.

If during the melting down some dross has formed this must be skimmed off, weighed and separately sampled and assayed.

Where practicable, metals and alloys are best sampled by melting and granulating.

Even with modern technology, bottles were the principal means by which oceanographers sampled and determined the chemical and biological properties of the sea.

It is, of course, absolutely necessary that the stuff to be sampled shall be well mixed, and the fractions taken, so that each part of the little heap shall contribute its share to the sample.

The bars are sampled by chipping off diagonally opposite corners: or better, by drilling, the drillings being freed from pieces of steel with the help of a magnet.

The same lead cast into bars and sampled by sawing gave an average of 470 ozs.

Or one set of five may be sampled along the top and the next set along the bottom of the bars.

The cement to be sampled is taken from the storage bins and kept under seal by the chief inspector pending the results of the test.

The coal delivered at the public buildings in the District of Columbia is sampled by special representatives of the Technologic Branch of the Survey.

More than 650 deliveries of coal are sampled each month for tests, representing 50,000 tons purchased per month, besides daily deliveries, on ship-board, of 550,000 tons of coal for the Panama Railroad.

He shrugged and sampled the pizza then took a hurried gulp of wine to bank the pain of hot cheese on his tongue.

James actually started the boat once while she was sleeping and ran it into a sandbar, despite having sampled the water beforehand.

Alex dug the sampled crystals out of his pocket and looked at them again.