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Usage examples of distilled.

Manner of performing the experiments--Action of distilled water in comparison with the solutions--Carbonate of ammonia, absorbed by the roots--The vapour absorbed by the glands--Drops on the disc--Minute drops applied to separate glands--Leaves immersed in weak solutions--Minuteness of the doses which induce aggregation of the protoplasm--Nitrate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Phosphate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Other salts of ammonia--Summary and concluding remarks on the action of salts of ammonia.

Twenty leaves were first carefully examined, and reexamined after having been left immersed in distilled water for various periods, with the following results.

I made a vast number of trials by placing, by means of a fine needle moistened with distilled water, and with the aid of a lens, particles of various substances on the viscid secretion surrounding the glands of the outer tentacles.

And while Grenouille chopped up what was to be distilled, Baldini hectically bustled about heating a brick-lined hearth — because speed was the alpha and omega of this procedure — and placed on it a copper kettle, the bottom well covered with water.

Many things simply could not be distilled at all — which irritated Grenouille no end.

After carefully filtering the perfumed alcohol through gauze that retained the least little lump of oil, Druot filled a small alembic and distilled it slowly over a minimum flame.

The floral scents lay captive in their crocks and flacons in the cellar, and if Madame did not wish some pomade or other to be washed or for a sack of dried spices to be distilled, there was not all that much to do.

He distilled the alcohol down to about a thimbleful and filled a tiny glass tube with these few remaining drops.

Accordingly I added to some distilled water a pinch of a quite innocent substance, namely, precipitated carbonate of lime, which consists of an impalpable powder.

But this view was proved erroneous, for a plant with uninjured roots, bearing four leaves, was submerged in distilled water for 47 hrs.

The leaf was then washed and placed in distilled water, and after 3 hrs.

These leaves, after being left for four days in distilled water, became less flaccid, with their tentacles partially reexpanded, and the aggregated masses of protoplasm were partially redissolved.

Three ounces of doubly distilled water was heated in a porcelain vessel, with a delicate thermometer having a long bulb obliquely suspended in it.

As a preliminary trial, drops of distilled water were placed on between thirty and forty leaves, and no effect whatever was produced.

One part was dissolved in 218 parts of distilled water, and drops were placed on four leaves.