Sentence examples for peculiar substance from inspiring English sources

To look for a real, substantive thing called consciousness, Dennett argues, is as silly as insisting that characters in novels, such as Sherlock Holmes or Harry Potter, must be made up of a peculiar substance named "fictoplasm"; the idea is absurd and unnecessary, since the characters do not exist to begin with.

Today: Burundi's government says it's ready to release people detained during last week of protests, nearly half a ton of blow found hidden in banana shipments in Berlin, thousands of Yazidi children struggle to learn in refugee camp classrooms, and a Croatian spa treats skin conditions with a peculiar substance. .

Though pressure-treated boards are no longer treated with the same toxic chemicals they once were, they are still treated with some peculiar substances.

Ganoid scales, which are found on such fishes as gars and the bowfin, are similar to placoid scales but are covered with a peculiar enamel-like substance called ganoin.

Doctors found four coins stuck together with a "peculiar sticky wax-like substance" in her stomach.

Enhancer substances, -deprenyl, -1-phenyl-2-propylaminopentane [-PPAP] the -deprenyl analogue free of MAO inhibitory potency, and R-1- benzofuran-2-yl -2-propylaminopentane R-1- benzofuran-2-yl -2-propylaminopentanehanceR-1- benzofuran-2-yl -2-propylaminopentane

Because of their polarity, these substances possess some peculiar characteristics that distinguish them from other more hydrophobic substances.

The 2,644 singleton atom types in Substance can highlight peculiar configurations.

During that first decade (1955 1965), Becker faced significant issues to the form and substance of his peculiar way of doing economics, and human capital illustrates vividly the type of issues raised regarding his approach.

For example, the argument at 1038b11 15 is based on the premise that the substance of x is peculiar (idion) to x.

In case (b), (sound) waves are different from processes and are peculiar just because waves move, as individual substances do.