elegance, elegancy

[Fr. élégance; Lat. elegant i a, from elegans neat, elegant; Sp. elegancia; Ital. eleganza.] [ELEGANT.] 1. The state or quality of being elegant; a state of beauty arising from perfect proportion and propriety of the parts, and an absence of anything likely to cause a sensation of discord or want of harmony; symmetry. then placed face downwards on a plate, by which it is suspended over a bath of molten type-metal. When it has attained the requisite heat, a quantity of the metal is dipped up and floated over the back of the shell. When cold, the plate is reduced to an even thickne by a planing-machine. For printing, it is mounted on a wooden backing. Another mode of obtaining electrotype plates from a letterpre form is by a mold of gutta-perch a, brushed manners, .) 102 "Tell me no more of legs and feet Where grace and clegancy meet." Cotton: On Mrs. Anne King . 2. Refinement, polish. (Used of language, style, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. 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IMG:content-0871.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Chem .: An element is a substance which has not yet been resolved into a more simple form of matter, nor obtained by the union of other ele- Sulphur.... mentary substances. It has beer stated that at high Tantalum. temperatures certain of the elements have been decomposed, as shown by certain spectroscopic Thallium: phenomena, but the constituents have not been Thorium. separated from each other. The number of ele- Thulium. Tellurium *Terbium. earth-metals have not been obtained in a pure Titaniumnu state. The substances which require further in- Tungsten (Wolfram). vest i gat i on before their claims as elements are Uranium. admitted are marked with an asterisk (*). The Vanadium Elements have been divided into Metallic and Non- *Ytterbium. metallic elements (q. v.), but this division is not *Yttrium.. clearly defined, as arsenic, antimony, and others, Zinc... are on the border line. Hydrogen should be regarded as a metal. They are cla ed also accord- ing to their atomicity. [MEN DELE JEFF'S LAW.] They form remarkable series of three elements in which the atomic weight of the middle element is almost half the weight of the sum of the other two elements, and its properties chemical and physical are intermediate: as, Cl 355, Br 80, I 127; S 16, Se 79, Te 128; P 31, As 75, Sb 122; Li 7, Na 23, K 39; K 39, Rb 85-5, Cs 133; Ca 40, Sr 875, Ba 137; Mg 24, Zn 65, Cd 112; Al 27, Ga 68, In 1134. Other elements having similar properties have their atomic weights nearly the same: as, Ni 59, Co59, Fe56, Mn 55, Cr 525; Ce 138, La 140; Pt 197, Ir 198, Os 199; Rh 104-4, Ru 104.4, Pd 106.6. Certain elements form the chief part of nature. Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon are the chief constituents of all organic matter; water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen; airisa mechanical mixture of oxygen and nitrogen. Rocks are composed chiefly of oxides of silicon, calcium, magnesium, aluminum, iron, sodium, and pot as- sium combined with each other, or with carbonic acid. Sodium chloride occurs in large quanities in sea-water; phosphate and carbonate of calcium form the framework or skeleton of animals. Metals oc occur native or as carbonates, oxides, and sul- phides. But some of the rarer elements occur very widely diffused; thus iron generally contains a trace of vanadium; clay, especially that of Gault, traces of lithium. Many mineral springs contain Cesium and Rubidium in minute quantities. Traces of rare metals in the soil are often detected in the ashes of plants grown on it. elementality 2. Arising from first principles; natural, innate. 3. Pertaining to the elements or first principles of any art or science; elementary, rudimentary. *ěl-e-men-tăl'-I-ty, s . [Eng. elemental ; -ity .] mentary. 1. The quality or state of being elemental or ele 2. Combination of principles or ingredients. literally. ěl-e-men-tal-ly, adv . [Eng. elemental: -ly.] In an elemental manner; according to elements; *ěl-e-měn-tar, a . [ELEMENTARY.] Elementary, primary.