expansive force

The immaterial in man is the expansive force inherent in him.

It is possible that the expansive forces of hydration may assist here if alteration products are present.

The remainder of the stroke is driven by the expansive force of the steam.

The heads of all the figures, outsize to suggest expansive force of knowledge, are identical.

A hole was to be made large enough to hold fifty pounds of guncotton, whose expansive force is four times that of gunpowder.

Now it appears his conjecture that the universe is pervaded by an expansive force called the "cosmological constant" was also correct.

However, even sodium chloride, which does not include water of crystallization, can exert considerable expansive forces as its crystals grow.

Force d'expansion du comique (The expansive force of the comic)

The cwr is installed and fastened down at an optimum temperature, to ensure that the highest possible expansive force is limited.

A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan.

It wasn't an explosion-it was as if some incredibly pQwerful expansive force inside filled it and flattened the walls from inside.

Moreover, you are well aware that, in general terms, the resisting power of cannon and the expansive force of gunpowder are practically unlimited.

So there will be no loss whatever of gas, and all the expansive force of the powder will be employed in the propulsion."

The expansive force in a one-foot length of rail at a certain temperature is the same as in a 100-mile length of rail.

I will even add, that if we mix it with one-eighth of its own weight of nitrate of potassium, its expansive force is again considerably augmented."

However at the end of the cwr section where it abutted older, ordinary jointed track, that track would be unable to resist the expansive force and the jointed track might be forced to buckle.

While yet on earth the imprisoned gas of a properly filled balloon distends the silk by virtue of its expansive force, and in spite of the enormous outside pressure which the weight of air exerts upon it.

Maxwell wrote: "His theory of impact is faulty, but his explanation of the expansive force of gases" [i.e., pressure] "is essentially the same as in the dynamical theory, as it now stands."

The expansive force of rusting, which may be called oxide jacking or rust burst, is a phenomenon that can cause damage to structures made of stone, masonry, concrete or ceramics, and reinforced with metal components.

It would be like the attempt to destroy (if it were in our competence to destroy) the expansive force of fixed air in nitre, or the power of steam, or of electricity, or of magnetism.

The history of science, he wrote, is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side and the compression arising from traditional faith, and human interests, on the other.