Sentence examples for invisible substance from inspiring English sources

At first, visualising an invisible substance of unknown composition seems like an impossible task.

The only invisible substance with which Abbott and his backers should be concerned about is their disappearing intellectual credibility.

"It's a market, a so-called market, in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one".

As for carbon markets, Mr Abbott says they area "a so-called market, in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one".

Finally, Joseph Black, another noted British scientist, developed the caloric theory of heat, which proposed that heat was an invisible substance permeating matter.

Warner wrote three years ago that "the carbon market is based on lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no-one".

More important than mere foods, the presence or absence of these invisible substances was now generally believed to confer health benefits on their eaters.

They are full of commodities traded in their trillions but never actually delivered, be they invisible substances such as natural gas, or very visible products such as cattle and pigs.

For Barzun, these systematic models of cause and effect run counter to the temper of history, which is intuitive, concrete, beholden to time and evidence: History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

The 17th-century phlogiston theory, whereby burning substances emit an invisible, weightless substance called phlogiston, was superseded by the views of the French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who proposed his oxygen theory from 1775.

He was 89 and lived in West Caldwell, N.J. Moving from casual brushing to a daily regimen that includes the use of dental floss to remove plaque, the invisible bacterial substance that sticks to teeth and initiates decay.