residuum
noun
the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
residua
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pluralof residuum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These residua are all black and glossy like common pitch, which differs from them only in having been less acted upon by fire, and thence in being softer.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The residua of distillation remain almost entirely in the reservoir, O, from whence they are easily removed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 by Various
Again he says, "The more things we try to explain, the better we realize that we live in a world of unexplained residua."
From Studies in the Life of the Christian by Henry T. (Henry Thorne) Sell
The former, however, is now seldom to be met with, the varieties employed on the palette being the residua of various resinous and bituminous matters, distilled for the sake of their essential oils.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
These differences in the proportions of volatile substances, of fixed residua, and of density in the coke obtained seem to be in harmony with the primitive organic nature of the carbonized tissues.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various
