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- noun Plural form of
centigramme .
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Examples
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M. Marie afterwards took from one of the geodes a pinch of powder weighing about half a gramme, and cupelled a bright dust-shot bead weighing not less than two centigrammes.
The Land of Midian 2003
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Allow to stand till clear, decant, and dilute to 1,250 c.c. Ten cubic centimeters will then equal roughly 5 centigrammes of glucose.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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For the same approximation, the velocity of oscillation becomes five or six times greater, and, by the method employed, the last centigrammes and the milligrammes and their fractions are estimated directly, with immediate verification.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various
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He gives it in doses of 10 centigrammes three times a day.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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One liter of water containing 10 cubic centimeters of hydrochloric acid at 1. 19° dissolves 65 centigrammes of the salt at 146° F.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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The quantity of matter mechanically inclosed is relatively high, as in the precipitation of much lead peroxide there is relatively more saline matter occluded than when a few centigrammes are deposited.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various
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This difference, multiplied by the approximate value, in milligrammes, of each division of this dial (value given by the instrument) immediately gives the number of centigrammes and milligrammes that must be added to the weights already placed upon the pan of the balance in order to obtain an equilibrium, to about a half division of the lower dial.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various
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The alkalies do not form any precipitate, but they kill the cerealine as if it had been precipitated The neutral rennet does not make any precipitate in a solution of cerealine -- 5 centigrammes of dry cerealine transform in twenty-five minutes 10 grammes of starch, reduced to a paste by 100 grammes of water at 113° Fah.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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To easily differentiate the solution obtained by this process from the commercial hypochlorites, pour into a glass about 20 c.c. of the solution and drop on the surface of the liquid a few centigrammes of phenol-phthaleine in powder.
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The solution of curare used for the local application was gradually strengthened to thirty, and at length to forty centigrammes of the poison; its proportion in the potion was also increased to fifteen, and then to twenty-five centigrammes.
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