Sentence examples for substance in which from inspiring English sources

On Pluto, nitrogen freezes into a soft, mushy substance in which water ice floats.

They were a substance in which the organic met the inorganic, like moss agate.

Carver late in life writes poetry about water, the substance in which he finds a lasting, sober solace.

"No substance," writes Mr. O'Brien in 1939," is of importance in fiction unless it is organic substance, substance in which the pulse of life is beating.

The difference was that Poincaré refused to abandon the idea of the ether, the substance in which light waves supposedly vibrated and which presumably filled all space.

Inorganic compound, any substance in which two or more chemical elements (usually other than carbon) are combined, nearly always in definite proportions.

Boride, any of a class of hard substances in which boron is chemically combined with various metals (see boron).

So are fat and felt, the substances in which Beuys was swaddled by his Siberian saviours and that he appropriated as images of life, death, salvation and hope.

Paramagnetism occurs primarily in substances in which some or all of the individual atoms, ions, or molecules possess a permanent magnetic dipole moment.

The most common examples are organic substances in which a carbon atom is linked by a covalent bond to the nitrogen atom of the nitro group.

For centuries, Aristotelian science had taught that the fundamental units of being were substances, in which qualities or "accidents" were lodged: thus, a cow is a substance, the redness of the cow an accident.