gelatinizing

The title and article took on something of an existential meaning for me, along the lines that society sedates us through various mechanisms which might also include soporific inducing foods or cerebrally gelatinizing television so that we are quite oblivious to the fact that we are marching or be driven happily to our own deaths, whether that be physically, mentally, or spiritually.

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Natrolite resembles stilbite, but may be distinguished by gelatinizing readily with hydrochloric acid and by not intumescing when heated before the blowpipe; from the other minerals by the form of the crystals and their setting, also the locality in the tunnel in which it was found.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

The media are used either in a fluid or solid condition, the latter being obtained by a process of coagulation, or by the addition of a gelatinizing agent, and are placed in glass tubes or flasks plugged with cotton-wool.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

It partly dissolves in acid without gelatinizing, leaving a flaky residue; it is a beautiful mineral when in masses or crystals of a dark green color, but the best place in the vicinity to secure specimens of this kind is, as I will detail hereafter, at Paterson, N.J. _Iron and Copper Pyrites_.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

Some of the cheaper preparations offered for sale are merely boiled starch or flour, mixed with nitric acid to prevent their gelatinizing.

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

It intumesces and readily fuses before the blowpipe, and dissolves in acid without gelatinizing.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

It is supposed erroneously to set the colours running; which is not positively the case, though it will not retain those disposed to move, because it wants the property the acetate of lead possesses, of gelatinizing the mixture of oil and varnish.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

Liquid glues are also made by rendering ordinary glue non-gelatinizing, which can be done by several means; as, for instance, by the addition of oxalic, nitric, or hydrochloric acid to the glue solution.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

It is owing to its presence that the juices of many fruits and roots possess the property of gelatinizing.

The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875