base metal

Based on the rest of the notebook’s contents, they believed the ciphertext contained a recipe for the fabled Philosophers’ Stone—an elixir that supposedly prolongs the owner’s life and grants the ability to produce gold from base metals.

Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.

If ISIS “came into a base and killed hundreds of troops, then people would ask a lot more questions.”

Huckabee will also need to establish a reliable fundraising base, something that up until now has proved to be elusive.

Both are considered marginal figures in the House GOP caucus and have no real base of support for their respective bids.

The taste of metal cutlery after years of plastic can also taste funny.

The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.

In the metal of the tenor several coins are visible, one being a Spanish dollar of 1742.

It is a vile world because it is an under-educated world, unreasonable, suspicious, base and ferocious.

The metal is then removed, and washed successively with very dilute sodium hydroxid solution, alcohol, and ether.

In ordinary work, however, it is safer to base the distinction upon size than upon structure.