prolonged-action

[ pruh-lawngd-ak-shuhn, -longd- ]

adjectivePharmacology.

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Indeed, all the oldest stratified rocks have been baked by the prolonged action of heat.
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Extractive matter and tannin are particularly liable to a change of this kind, by the prolonged action of heat in the bath.
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The latter substances alone are not immediately decomposed by aqua regia, which attacks them only after prolonged action.
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It is supposed by some that a prolonged action of the iron developer produces fogginess.
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It is obtained by the prolonged action of chlorine on absolute alcohol.
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