Crossword clues for formulas
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formula \For"mu*la\, n.; pl. E. Formulas, L. Formul[ae].
A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
(Eccl.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.
(Math.) A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.
(Med.) A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.
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(Chem.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.
Note: Chemical formul[ae] consist of the abbreviations of the names of the elements, with a small figure at the lower right hand, to denote the number of atoms of each element contained.
Empirical formula (Chem.), an expression which gives the simple proportion of the constituents; as, the empirical formula of acetic acid is C2H4O2.
Graphic formula, Rational formula (Chem.), an expression of the constitution, and in a limited sense of the structure, of a compound, by the grouping of its atoms or radicals; as, a rational formula of acetic acid is CH3.(C:O).OH; -- called also structural formula, constitutional formula, etc. See also the formula of Benzene nucleus, under Benzene.
Molecular formula (Chem.), a formula indicating the supposed molecular constitution of a compound.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "formulas".
Through the ages, mathematicians have tried to come up with formulas to do it.
Reason was invented by man only to help decipher the formulas created by God.
Pliny and Dioscorides have given the formulas for the writing inks used by the Greek and Roman scribes immediately before and during their time.
Rediscoveries of ancient formulas belonging to a more remote antiquity multiplied in number.
The black ink formulas of the eighth century are but few, and show marked improvement in respect to the constituents they call for, indicating that many of those of earlier times had been tried and found wanting.
Other governments later partially adopted the French formulas while some of them gave the matter no attention, although their records and those of the cities or towns not only of Europe but early America, the United States and Canada are found in most instances to have been written with an ink of this character.
THE literature of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on the subject of black and colored ink formulas, secret inks, etc.
This work compiles a great number of formulas, and rather favors the views of the chemist Dr.
That indigo for added color was employed by ink manufacturers in the eighteenth century is shown by the formulas appearing in the literature of that time.
Like formulas calling for different proportions of constituents both before and after his time in England and the continents of Europe and America are to be found in considerable number, proving that its use was more or less constant in this respect.
Modern chemistry offers many formulas and methods of rendering visible secret or sympathetic inks.
Court, especially as regards interstate commerce, hundreds of times, and in meeting them the Court has, first and last, coined or given currency to numerous formulas, some of which still guide, even when they do not govern, its judgment.
Commission was not bound to the use of any single formula or combination of formulas in determining rates.
For this reason there is presented below a survey of the formulas, utilization of which was hitherto deemed essential if due process requirements were to be satisfied.
Therefore it is that it is one of the fatalities of Humanity to be condemned to eternal struggles with phantoms, with superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, the formulas of error, and the pleas of tyranny.