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A supplement to Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. . 22 ADIPOSE SU15STAN0E ob ADIPOSE such as gum, plaster, resin, marine or ordinary glue, and various kinds of cement. (Seethose articles.) In many treatises, there has been a sad confusion between tlie termsadhesion and cohesiort. It is to be regretted that our literature shows a growing careless-ness in this respect. Adhesion should be restricted to mean, sticking together by meansof some interposed substance; co/iesion, the state of union eflected by na
A supplement to Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. . 22 ADIPOSE SU15STAN0E ob ADIPOSE such as gum, plaster, resin, marine or ordinary glue, and various kinds of cement. (Seethose articles.) In many treatises, there has been a sad confusion between tlie termsadhesion and cohesiort. It is to be regretted that our literature shows a growing careless-ness in this respect. Adhesion should be restricted to mean, sticking together by meansof some interposed substance; co/iesion, the state of union eflected by natural attraction. Not only is adhesion exhibited in works of art or manufacture, we find it very strikinglyexhibited in nature. Fragments of rocks which have been shattered by convulsion arefound to be cemented together by silica, lime, oxide of iron, and the like. We sometimesfind portions of stone cemented together by the ores of the metals; and, again, brokenparts of mineral lodes are frequently reunited bv the earthy minerals. ADIPOSE SUBSTANCE or ADIPOSE TISSUE. {Tissu graissevx, Fr.) An animaloil, resembling in its essential properties the vegetable oils. During
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