The phrase "a minute quantity of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a very small amount of something, often in scientific or technical contexts.
Example: "The experiment required a minute quantity of the chemical to achieve the desired reaction."
Alternatives: "a tiny amount of" or "a small trace of".
After dinner, as if nothing much had occurred, the literary conversation is resumed over a minute quantity of brandy by the fire.
It is shown that, with the addition of even a minute quantity of H2, the mixture explosion limits evolve from being monotonic to the non-monotonic Z-shaped response characteristic of H2/O2 mixtures.
A minute quantity of the dust ended up in a river about a thousand miles east of Alamogordo, where, in early August , 1945 it was taken up into a paper mill that manufactured strawboard for Eastman Kodak.
However, after sulfur removal a minute quantity of a noxious mercaptan odorant is always added to commercial natural gas in order to ensure the rapid detection of any leakage that may occur in transport or use.
The homeopathic practitioner creates his healing potions by starting with a minute quantity of the curative agent (some natural herb, mineral or whatever), diluting it in water by one part in 10, shaking the flask and then repeating the process again and again.
To measure the contents of the human blood system or of an industrial tank, a minute quantity of radioactive tracer is added and allowed to mix uniformly throughout the system; then a sample of known volume is removed from the system and measured for the amount of radioactive tracer it contains.
At the ventilating touch of air, a minute quantity is released from the blood and exhaled as vapor.
"One of the implications of my argument is that a life filled with good and containing only the most minute quantity of bad — a life of utter bliss adulterated only by the pain of a single pin-prick — is worse than no life at all," Benatar writes.
It was also observed that by adding minute quantity of a tetraethyl orthosilicate sol into the colloidal suspension, well ordered three-dimensional PS CCs without cracks were obtained.
And indeed, the philosopher cited above explicitly makes the case that "a life filled with good and containing only the most minute quantity of bad a life of utter bliss adulterated only by the pain of a single pin-prick is worse than no life at all" … and anyway that earth and pin-prick is universe worse be bethan off without us.
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