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Definition of Pellicles
1. pellicle [n] - See also: pellicle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellicles
Literary usage of Pellicles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1845)
"The pellicles remained at the bottom of the filter ; I washed them perfectly,
... After this time the pellicles were detached from the filter, and the water ..."
2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"(a) pellicles, whether as passive masses of interalveolar foam, or as contractile
membranes, are organizations of the two groups of elements of protoplasm, ..."
3. Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory, J. Milton Sanders (1857)
"When its solution is boiled it forms pellicles like milk, which adhere to the
vessel. Its solution is not colored by iodine, but the jelly is rendered blue ..."
4. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1808)
"Summary Considerations on the iridescent Colours of Bodies reduced into thin
pellicles; ... pellicles ..."
5. The Living Substance as Such: And as Organism by Gwendolen Foulke Andrews (1897)
"[32] pellicles are of the interalveolar substance; and we shall presently see,
that here, as elsewhere, the substance preserves in toto its inherent powers; ..."
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