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ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two See also:
LAT
Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a See also:
PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)
place; so that the See also:
ENGLISH
English word combined the See also:
GENERAL
GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)
general See also:
IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)
idea of "assigning with approval") , the See also:

ACTION

action of allowing, or the thing allowed; particularly, a certain limited See also:

apportionment of See also:

MONEY

money or See also:

food and See also:

DIET

diet (see See also:

DIETARY

DIETARY). In commercial usage "allowance" signifies the See also:

DEDUCTION (from Lat. deducere, to take or lead from or out of, derive)

deduction made from the See also:

GROSS

gross See also:

WEIGHT

weight of goods to make up for the weight of the See also:

box or package, See also:

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste, breakages, &c. Allowance, which is customary in most See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries, varies according to the See also:

trade, See also:

DISTRICT

district or See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country; e.g. in the See also:

COAL

coal trade it is customary for the See also:

MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant to receive from the See also:

PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)

pit 21 cwts. of coal for every ton See also:

PURCHASED

purchased by him, the difference of 1 cwt. being the allowance for the purpose of making See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good the waste caused through transhipment, screening and cartage (see TARE AND TRET.) ALLO%AN, or MESOXALYL See also:

UREA, or CARBAMIDE, CO(NH2)2

UREA, C4H2N204 or CO/NH– C0NCO. an oxidation product of uric See also:

ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid, being \NH—CO/ obtained from it by the action of See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold nitric acid, C5H4N403 + See also:

H2O (combined)

H2O + 0= C4H2N204 + CO(See also:

NH2)2. It crystallizes from See also:

WATER

water in colourless rhombic prisms, containing four molecules of water of See also:

CRYSTALLIZATION

crystallization, and possesses a very acid reaction. It serves as the starting-point for the preparation of many related substances. See also:

ZINC

Zinc and hydrochloric acid in the cold convert it into See also:

ALLOXANTIN, C8H4N407

alloxantin (q.v.), See also:

HYDROXYLAMINE, NH2OH

hydroxylamine gives nitroso-barbituric acid, C4H2N203: NOH, baryta water gives alloxanic acid, C4H4N205, hot dilute nitric acid oxidizes it to parabanic acid (q.v.), hot See also:

POTASSIUM [symbol K (from kalium), atomic weight 39.114 0=16)]

potassium hydroxide See also:

SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution hydrolyses it to urea and mesoxalic acid (q.v.) and zinc and hot hydrochloric acid convert it into dialuric acid, C4H4N204. M. Nencki has shown that alloxan combines with thiourea in alcoholic solution, in the presence of See also:

SULPHUR

sulphur dioxide to See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form pseudothiouric acid, C5H6N4SO3. Methyl and dimethylalloxans are also known, the former being obtained on oxidation of methyl uric acid, and the latter on oxidation of See also:

CAFFEINE, or THEINE (1.3.7 trimethyl 2 . 6 dioxypurin)

caffeine (q.v.).

End of Article: ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

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