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It is a colourless gas produced by the decay of organic matter such as raw sewage, oils, and saltwater.
To her credit, Mehta did a crack job depicting the occasionally colourless quality of life as an ageing singleton.
The chameleon is sometimes green, sometimes blue, it is all colours by turn, and sometimes it is absolutely colourless.
Familiar in its colourless form, it also occurs in a wide range of strong colours including blue, green, pink, and yellow.
The unshadowed road itself, so flat and colourless in the heat of day, loses substance even as we look.
She pulled a nightdress and jumper from the piles of colourless garments and walked to the bathroom.
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that is odourless, colourless, tasteless and non-irritating.
The groundmass consists mainly of bytownite with large grains of diopside and of colourless olivine, and small octahedrons of magnetite.
Ideally, your urine should be plentiful, very pale yellow or almost colourless, and odourless.
The colourless, odourless liquid had mistakenly been left on a surface in a water bottle, according to police in Nicosia.
Most intriguing, though, is that phalanx of stolid men in colourless suits forever behind and beside him.
Very occasionally they are colourless, but they usually range from pale green, through straw, pale copper, and deep gold to amber.
Hydrogen sulphide, often called sulphuretted hydrogen, is a colourless gas, having a sweetish taste, and an odour like that of bad eggs.
But while he does the long dark tunnel of sulky adolescence very well, he is a less-than-ardent lover and vocally colourless.
The distilled essential oil is colourless or tinged very pale yellow so it does not stain.
Carbon monoxide is colourless and odourless, and is produced when gas fails to burn completely.
I turned him round and his lips were blue, his eyes were colourless and he was lifeless.
The light was harsh, the sky was flat and colourless, and there were no clouds.
Everything is a uniform shade of grey, built out of old power station parts and conduits, populated by drab, colourless people.
It's so colourless, so dull, so hellish here, a very poor substitute for what I've lost.
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Unlike many of the colourless characters in golf, there is much more to him than putting and winning tournaments.
Seldom in world history can so much power have been wielded by such an apparently colourless character.
They have a talented squad, but their performances are so often colourless and mediocre.
The danger is of subsiding into a world of flavourless, colourless euphemism, leaving behind the robustness of good English.
The fogbow is much broader than a rainbow and the colours overlap so much that the result is almost colourless.
This colourless gel acts as a barrier between skin and foundation, making the base last longer and stay looking fresh.
He found, when the cruor is deprived of its iron, that it becomes colourless.
The gel can be rubbed onto chrome surfaces where it forms a robust, long-lasting soft film that is virtually colourless.
The opaque-white decanters have gilt decoration applied to all the positions occupied by cutting on the colourless ones.
The mineral glaucophane, for example, has a pleochroism scheme of colourless, lavender, and sky blue.
Andalusite porphyroblasts that overgrow the S 1 fabric were pseudomorphed by colourless mica.
Behind the colourless doors of these homes were people who still live in the misery of abject poverty.
Cyanide is a colourless, lethal, water-soluble poison occasionally used by mafia assassins.
Our citric acid is a natural, odourless and colourless crystalline substance with a pleasantly refreshing acidulous taste.
There are no vegetables, and in fact the plate is colourless beyond the eerie white of these Polish dumplings.
His cerebrospinal fluid was reported as a clear and colourless specimen with two red cells, no white cells, and a negative Gram stain.
The voice is a little colourless in its lower register, compensated by a bright tone in the middle of his voice, and meticulous intonation.
It has worked for a colourless anaemic religion to which men pay lip homage.
The hypophase was removed with a Pasteur pipette and the aqueous phase re-extracted with chloroform until it was colourless.
The inner sheath, termed the sclerenchymatous bundle or mestome sheath, is colourless and contains thickened walls and extensive suberin lamella.
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As usual, he wore his long, straight colourless hair down, and tied a blue designed headband around his head.
Brazil is the main source of gem topaz Topaz can be colourless, blue, and rarely pink as well as the more familiar yellow.
Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
The distinctive, colourless animal with white prickles, red eyes and pink feet is being treated with antibiotics at the Withington Hedgehog Hospital on Parsonage Road.
I don't wish for much, and expect less, but as a journalist the most difficult chore in the year is to have to listen to countless colourless and uninformative speeches.
It has been characterised as an era of colourless politicians, ill-judged initiatives in foreign policy, tentative reforms, parliamentary corruption, and economic weakness.
Later, this water is chlorinated and the output is colourless and odourless water with the purity label of 80 percent and later stored in the 1.5 MLD capacity storage tank.
Time and again, the colourless, clear sky will marshal thunderheads, building them into great puffy dark cotton wool, filling the horizon from end to end.
What we saw that day was colourless, dull and unimaginative.
This does not mean that his account is bland and colourless, but he is striving for scholarly objectivity and clarity as far as that is possible under the circumstances.
Afterwards we were treated to free samples of Helen's strudel and a tot of the local hooch, raki, a colourless liquid drunk like schnapps which is not for the faint-hearted.
The water is clear, colourless, palatable, odourless, mildly mineralised, and contains hydro carbonates of sodium and small quantities of fluorine.
The country has had a coalition government of right and left parties for some time, which has increasingly been criticised for being too colourless and weak.
A length of coloured or colourless plastic that has been cut in a corkscrew, spiral style meaning you can untwist it and wrap it around your cables keeping them together.
The concerns centre on the various types of fuel carried, such as hydrazine, a toxic colourless liquid with an ammonia-like odour, which can burn the skin.
Furan, a colourless, volatile liquid used in some chemical manufacturing industries, causes cancer in animals in studies where animals are exposed to furan at high doses.
The mineral separates provided a population of euhedral, prismatic crystals, which are either transparent and colourless or chocolate brown and translucent to opaque.
Quartz is colourless when pure but minute amounts of impurities or lattice imperfections give rise to varieties such as amethyst, cairngorm, rose quartz, and smoky quartz.
The side of the body without the eyes, facing the seabed, is usually colourless or very pale.
The Cumshewa totem poles were dark and colourless, the wood toneless from pouring rain.
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Carapace covered in adpressed colourless hairs, with long brown bristles near eyes and some whitish hairs on eye field.
The residue obtained after solvent removal was washed under argon with several portions of diethyl ether until the filtrate was colourless.
They achieved the record-level mobility of 60,000 using anisole, a colourless liquid with a pleasant, aromatic odour used chiefly in perfumery.
On the colourless corpuscles and on the molecules and cytoblasts in the blood.
Hexane, a colourless liquid, explodes when it comes into contact with the atmosphere.
They lack hemoglobin in their blood, resulting in their blood being colourless.
Toncil, which is used as a bleaching agent in industries, is frequently used by profiteers to make the PDS kerosene colourless.
Non-Enterobacteriaceae may appear colourless or violet or are inhibited by the selective components and incubation temperature.
In acidified acetone, the above mentioned skeletons yielded yellow or orange organic solutions which float above a colourless cloudly aqueous solution.
The oil is colourless or light yellow, and smells and tastes of nutmeg.
Ethyl tetrazone is a colourless liquid with an odour of leeks.
The crystal discovered in Hepu is mostly colourless or purple, with the colourless kind dominant, and found as beads of round, tubular and polyhedric shape.
Historian Asa Briggs points out that his personality did not endear itself to the British mind, for Pitt was too solitary, too colourless, and too often exuded superiority.
Examples from Classical Literature
Typically they consist of pale green or nearly colourless augite, green hornblende and pink garnet.
By re-solution in alcohol it may be obtained under the form of colourless, prismatic, acicular crystals.
By spontaneous evaporation the ammoniacal solution deposits small, colourless crystals of cystic oxide.
Annamese Buddhism is only a colourless copy of Chinese Foism and has no great hold of the people.
The augite is usually brown, but greenish, violet and colourless varieties may occur.
The caprylate of ethyl, erroneously termed caprylic ether, is a colourless liquid, with an agreeable odour of pine-apples.
They lack anything individual and original, and are just as lukewarm and colourless as the conventional feelings of the introvert.
They are almost all translucid, not often colourless, but generally brown, occasionally red or green.
Olein is an odourless, colourless, tasteless oil, which rapidly absorbs oxygen and becomes rancid.
It should be colourless, without action on either litmus or turmeric paper, and have the boiling-point, sp.
Chloride of methylene is a colourless mobile fluid, having a smell like chloroform, and a burning taste.
A thin colourless liquid, of pungent rancid odour, and sour taste, miscible with water and alcohol.
It melts into a colourless liquid at about 38, in which state it is miscible with water, alcohol, and ether.
The cells composing the whorled filaments are beaded or moniliform, and are prolonged into colourless hair-like points.
Clear, colourless crystals are known as white sapphire, and are very valuable.
They are of a palish yellow, or quite colourless, and enclose sometimes a single, sometimes many calcareous corpuscles.
The asci appear first at the base of the paraphyses, under the form of oblong cells, filled with colourless protoplasm.
The emerging rays are parallel to their original direction and form a colourless image on the parhelic circle opposite the sun.
The external membrane is thin, smooth, and generally colourless, or of a pearly white.
In colourless transparent crystals exhibiting triangular facets, soluble in water, and less so in proof spirit.
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The crystals are colourless tables, rhombic or hexagonal, according to the modifications produced principally in the acute angles.
The bicarbonate is in colourless prisms, which have a saline, feebly alkaline taste, and are not deliquescent.
Be vague, colourless, and languid, this deters readers from approaching the book.
Thus, santonin, when taken in any quantity, makes all colourless objects look yellow.
Everything was no more than dried flowers, sapless, brittle and colourless.
This grouping is not always colour-producing, since diphenyl is colourless.
It forms colourless scales which have a bitter taste, but it is highly inadvisable to taste either this substance or elaterium.
The hornblende of granites is usually pale green in section, the augite and enstatite nearly colourless.
If helium was responsible we should have haloes produced in all sorts of colourless minerals.
His hawkish features, upturned moustache, and colourless skin gave him a truly Machiavellian aspect.
At mid-day it was colourless, glaring, steel-flashing, with the sunlight blazing and everything shimmering in the heat haze.
The skipjack found quite stiff and colourless this morning, in the water-jug!
The hydrochloride crystallises in colourless needles, insoluble in alcohol, readily soluble in water.
Vibrio spirillum is excessively minute, colourless, and found in decomposing vegetable mixtures.
The resulting clear, deep brown-coloured solution is treated with hyposulphite of soda solution until quite colourless.
It is in colourless, inodorous, lamellar crystals, which have a slight pungent taste.
The sea looked gloomy and colourless, and there were no waves.
He swore in a colourless sort of way, and picked the photograph up.
Her clear, colourless, unflinching glance enveloped us both critically.
Lady Sarah knew that her own life was colourless, and was contented.
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When to-day is colourless, where can one live except in the future?
Or the stings, and minute, colourless blossoming of the nettle?
Accompanied by the lightest of porters, fit colourless servitor at Death's door when Mrs.
It would be the colourless dream of an immobile plurality of absolutes.
The lampshade revealed it colourless, and lustreless her eyes.
Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed.
It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness, when everything is colourless and clear cut, and yet unreal.
It drove steadily and in wreaths, curling and smoking along the colourless water.
The bushes were inky black, the ground a sombre grey, the sky colourless and cheerless.
The waves were colourless, and the Bournemouth steamer gave a further touch of insipidity, drawn up against the pier and hooting wildly for excursionists.
They start by coming to the aid of the Browns, from Bicester, Oxfordshire, who live in a colourless home and think they need to add new tonalities.
