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But this is not the case, because it is not chemical reducibility, but the absorption power for light that is of the greatest importance.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

Induction, however, has given the priority to copper, just as is expected from the comparative reducibility of its ores—lead and gold being put out of the question.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Their unequal reducibility; the blue sensitive silver bromide being reduced with much greater difficulty than the indigo sensitive variety. 3d.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

It was a brilliant soliloquy on the reducibility of any multi-dimensional condition to a defined set of measured properties.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn