Meanings of containing less in English

As a rule young flesh, containing less fibrine, requires longer cooking.

They wore mini-tanks, containing less than twenty minutes of air, made for short dives.

Gold may be easily obtained containing less impurity than one part in ten thousand.

In communes containing less than 300 inhabitants the Mayor and assessors themselves may scrutinise and declare the results.

Oils high in emulsifiers-suchas mono-and di-glycerides-penetrateprotein more quickly than oils containing less of these agents.

Also that only calcium carbide, which on admixture with water yields acetylene containing less than 1 per cent.

Suppose that we have a sample of steel or manganiferous cast-iron containing less than 7 per cent of manganese.

His first balloon was a small parallelopiped in very thin taffeta, containing less than seventy-eight cubic inches of air.

His creating none at all would have left the universe less admirable and containing less happiness than it now does.

Each city containing less than ten thousand inhabitants shall pay the salary of the judge of its corporation or hustings court.

Moreover, it is evident that on such an ore no small sample must be taken containing less than several million particles.

To reduce this length would require a solution of higher specific resistance, that is, a solution containing less than 10 per cent.

POULTRY are of more importance to us than game, and the flesh, containing less nitrogen, is not so stimulating as beef or mutton.

At that time there was a law of the United States which forbade the importation of rum in casks containing less than ninety gallons.

The following fascicle of letters, although containing less about the writer's thoughts, feelings, and doings than we could wish, affords nevertheless matter of interest.

Hay made from such material will not be in any way dangerous, although it would be inferior as containing less nutritive and more non-nutritive matter.