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But mind, whether it be diamond, or black-lead, or this porous charcoal, each and all have the same chemical composition; they are what we call the elementary undecomposable substance carbon.

From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott

The procedure given below applies to silicates undecomposable by acids, of which the mineral feldspar is taken as a typical example.

From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Talbot, Henry P.

The earliest impressions which the mind can assimilate are those given to it by the undecomposable sensations, resistance, light, sound, etc.

From Froebel's Gifts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Philosophy has also this disadvantage, that it possesses very many undecomposable concepts and undemonstrable propositions, while mathematics has only a few such.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

If we proceed on the supposition that the so-called elements are compounds, and if this law, if not universal, holds of undecomposable substances as of decomposable, then there are two implications.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert