Sentence examples for simple substances from inspiring English sources

The kitchen also recasts simple substances in unexpected forms.

He was probably the first to distinguish between "simple" substances and "compounds".

In addition, he urged that compounds receive names to denote their constituent parts and that simple substances be given simple names.

Many of the organisms in the intestinal tract break down complex waste products into simple substances, and others help in the manufacture of chemical compounds that are essential to human life.

In the end, however, the numerical rules for the chemical combination of different simple substances, together with the experiments on the conversion of work into heat by Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford and James Prescott Joulee, led to the downfall of the theory of caloric.

Aggregates of simple substances, therefore, have a different ontological status from simple substances.

In a certain sense, his answer remained constant throughout his life: everything is composed of or reducible to simple substances; everything is grounded in simple substances.

Substances are either themselves simple or composed of simple substances; simple substances (i.e., monads, according to Leibniz) are called 'atoms' by Bolzano.

Grosseteste asserts that first form and first matter are in themselves simple substances.

In presenting his theory of simple substances Leibniz was concerned to avoid a fundamental misunderstanding.

Since there are composites, Leibniz argued, there must be simple substances that, together, constitute these composites.