Meanings of putrescible in English

The model demonstrated that only the putrescible solid waste was totally converted to methane.

By means of a membrane, he separated a sterilised putrescible liquid from a putrefying one.

It is also precipitated by tannin, which combines with it to form an insoluble non-putrescible compound.

Fed with such air, in the great majority of cases the putrescible liquids remained perfectly sweet after boiling.

We have now to devise a means of testing the action of such spontaneously purified air upon putrescible infusions.

Where there is overcrowding, the collections of putrescible filth are multiplied, and with them probably the productive foci of infective particles.

All putrescible matter liable to breed a pestilence is carried far from shore and sunk under fathoms of the never-stagnant sea.

It is highly probable, judging from the results of experiments, that every collection of putrescible matter is potentially a productive focus of microbes.

The importance of "Dutch cleanliness" in our houses, and the abolition of all collections of putrescible matter in and around our houses, is abundantly evident.