Sentence examples for be a compound of from inspiring English sources

Lavoisier recognized it as an element in 1777, although it was considered by some to be a compound of hydrogen and oxygen; its elemental nature was established by the French chemists Joseph Gay-Lussac Gay-Lussac and Louis Thenard

Some species will grow in a solution composed only of inorganic salts (one of the salts must be a compound of nitrogen) and a source of carbon dioxide (CO2); these are called autotrophs.

A. The active ingredient of this 100-year-old patent medication, first developed to fight the symptoms of a debilitating kind of diarrhea in children called cholera infantum, is now known to be a compound of the element bismuth called bismuth subsalicylate.

For example, sulphur was thought to be a compound of sulphuric acid and phlogiston and phosphorus was thought to be a compound between phosphoric acid and phlogiston.

(3) Upon closer scrutiny, the kind of content that we encounter in the world of experience and conceptualize in the empirical sciences shows itself to be a compound of form and content.

The common name jackdaw first appeared in the 16th century, and is thought to be a compound of the forename Jack, used in animal names to signify a small form (e.g. jack snipe), and the archaic native English word daw.

It is a compound of sodium.

The décor is a compound of Peter Max, Vincent van Gogh and Aldo Cipolat.

The word nostalgia is a compound of two Greek words: nóstos (homecoming) and álgos (ache).

It is a compound of something else: French-Mediterranean and northern Italian, wonderfully reliable.

The home he built, Blue Harbour, is a compound of seaside bungalows overlooking Port Maria's bay.