microcosmic

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The most familiar compound of this kind is microcosmic salt, which has the formula Na (NH_ {4}) HPO_ {4}.

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  1. Of orpertaining to a microcosm or to anything that is regarded as such.
  2. Microcosmic salt HNaNH4PO4 + 4H2O, a salt of soda, ammonia, and phosphoric acid, originally obtained from human urine. It is much employed as a flux in experiments with the blowpipe.

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  • The game left Vaughan cold-all sports depressed him with their display of microcosmic futility-and he had viewed her fanaticism with amused tolerance. —  Bookspotcentral
  • The game will feature all kinds of fast-paced action on a microcosmic scale, making it quite similar but opposite of —  Cinema Blend Feeds
  • Just as Salvador Dali would transfix his viewers in an altered reality through his images of the hallucinatory fantastic, Farmand's paintings take the common, mundane reality, but at the microcosmic level, and dissect it, re-erecting a new order in which the viewer gets lost in the wonder of our nature.
  • A potentially fascinating examination of a microcosmic community under tremendous duress is reduced to platitude, while the complex moral imperatives are almost totally glossed over.
  • There's a certain science to picking fights on the overmap - whether to engage in a costly, three-turn struggle for control of a metropolis, or whether to lash out at the supply territories which surround it - but unlike in Total War this aspect is never remotely like a game in its own right, remaining firmly secondary to the microcosmic engagements. —  Kikizo.com Video Games Website XML Feed
 

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  1. = French microcosmique; as microcosm + -ic.
 

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