Sentence examples for vegetable substances from inspiring English sources

These require oblations of vegetable substances and, in some instances, of parts of ritually killed animals.

Phlogiston could be released into the air from inflamed sulfurous minerals, from vegetable substances in fermentation, or from animal parts in putrefaction.

Another example of Gay-Lussac's fondness for volumetric ratios appeared in an 1810 investigation into the composition of vegetable substances performed with his friend Louis-Jacques Thenard.

The correspondence of the cosmos with the human body in both Daoism and Tantric mysticism permits both orders of reality to be coded in terms of the gods, the landscape, the elements, various mineral and vegetable substances, and so forth.

Sloane acquired Cuninghame's samples both of wild tea leaves on the branch, which were added to the thousands of pressed plants in his herbarium, and the small box of processed and prepared tea, which became item 857 in his "vegetable substances" collection.

A 12,000-franc award in 1810 specified that he publish his findings, which appeared that year as L'Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales (The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years).

Fruit jellies resemble gelatin products but achieve solidification as a result of a natural vegetable substance called pectin.

Urine and certain types of soil and vegetable matter contain substances which stain cashmere permanently.

But when regulators in the United States approved the irradiation of fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and eggs, they did not consider that type of study, in which animals were fed concentrates of the substances.

Although many studies have shown that people who eat diets rich in fruits and vegetables have a lower risk of many types of cancer, the studies could not pinpoint particular nutrients as providing the benefit, and many researchers believe that fruits and vegetables contain other substances, as yet unidentified, that may have important effects on health.

Scheidemann is among just a handful of private conservators who specialize in contemporary art, and has become particularly admired for his skill in working with organic substances — fat, vegetable matter — and for his openness to the possibility that art can be made of anything.