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The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.

To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify. [R.]

The act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water. [R.] Ure.

The purport; the sum and substance. "The effect of his intent." Chaucer.

That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux. Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Milton. And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.

assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. [Written also elaoptene.]

An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.

Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its…

A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

ica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).

A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

ble of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance.

olarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and…

the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure.