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  • noun Obsolete spelling of milligram.

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Examples

  • Nurse Callan taken aback in the hallway cannot stay them nor smiling surgeon coming downstairs with news of placentation ended, a full pound if a milligramme.

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  • The substance, known as paraoxon, was so deadly that less than one milligramme per one kilogramme of body mass was needed to kill, Immelman said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • It has been proved by Kirchhoff and Bunsen, that the 3/1,000,000 part of a milligramme of sodium chloride is sufficient to give a yellow colour to

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • So long as we had no analytical methods of sufficient delicacy to estimate with certainty the hundredth, or at least the tenth of a milligramme of carbonic acid, it was very difficult to determine the quantity in the air at a given time and place.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

  • The value of each division of this dial varies from 3 to 10 milligrammes according as the balance shows 0.1 or 0.5 milligramme.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various

  • In his Romanes Lecture recently published, he states, page 4: "My first thesis is that an electric charge possesses the most fundamental and characteristic property of matter, viz. mass or inertia; so that if any one were to speak of a milligramme or an ounce or a ton of electricity, though he would certainly be speaking inconveniently, he might not necessarily be speaking erroneously."

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • _ -- The balances used should be sensitive to at least one milligramme.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various

  • One milligramme equivalent sulphate of lime, in 1 liter, = 68 grammes sulphate of lime in 1 cubic meter, requiring for decomposition:

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various

  • The soda solution may conveniently contain the equivalent of one milligramme of recrystallized oxalic acid (H_ {2} C_ {2} O_ {4}. 2H_ {2} O) in each cubic centimeter.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

  • He began in his measured tones, in a voice which handles words as the weight of a usurer weighs gold pieces to the milligramme:

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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