Literary notes about residue (AI summary)
The term "residue" has been employed with a rich diversity of meanings in literature, ranging from the tangible to the metaphorical. In technical and scientific writings, authors such as Ukers and Tavera use "residue" to denote the leftover material after a process—be it the undissolved remains from chemical extraction in coffee production [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] or the insoluble by-products in medicinal preparations [10, 11, 12]. In contrast, thinkers like Plato, Dewey, and Santayana invoke "residue" to capture abstract concepts: the remaining qualities, consequences, or even justice itself after more dominant elements have been accounted for [13, 14, 15, 16, 17]. Additionally, in literary narratives and historical accounts, the word serves as a metaphor for what is left behind—be it in property settlements or as a symbolic remnant of past actions [18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29]. This dual usage underscores the term’s versatility, bridging the gap between empirical residue in scientific inquiry and the lingering imprints of human experience in philosophical and narrative discourse.
- Return the residue to [Pg 172] the platinum dish and ignite to an ash; dissolve in nitric acid, and add this solution to the water extract.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The purity of the residue can be tested by determining nitrogen and multiplying by the factor 3.464.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Test the purity of the residue by determining nitrogen and multiplying by 3.464 to obtain caffein.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Weigh the residue as caffein and calculate on 7.5 grams of coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Digest the residue with 80 cc. of hot water for ten minutes on a steam bath with frequent shaking, and let cool.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Then we tried to make a potable coffee by making an aqueous extract of raw coffee, evaporating to dryness and roasting the residue.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The great trouble here is a dark shiny residue, which, while tasteless, is very disagreeable to look at.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Rub the residue with a pestle into a paste with boiling water.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - They boil the residue down in water, and get a drink called marc ; and it is used in much the same way as the Norman in the north uses calvados .
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - If the ethereal tincture be evaporated a resinous residue remains that has not been studied, but appears to be the vesicant principle.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera - of insoluble residue, wax, “caucho,” resin, tannin, sugar, albuminoids, oxalate of calcium and other salts.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera - After expression De Vry obtained from the caked residue 4% of a crystalline glucoside called by him thevetin .
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera - A concept is not a bare residue 1.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - From another point of view Justice is the residue of the three others.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - And whichever of these qualities we find in the State, the one which is not found will be the residue? 428 Very good.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - Mind the erratic residue of existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - And whichever of these qualities we find in the State, the one which is not found will be the residue?
— from The Republic by Plato - The residue of your letter is rather discussion.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - Having brought the analysis of War conscientiously up to this point, we could not but take account also of the weight of this small remaining residue.
— from On War by Carl von Clausewitz - The age for Hymen's rites, Lucina's pangs, Ere ten years ended, after four begins; Their residue of days nor apt to teem, Nor strong for ploughing.
— from The Georgics by Virgil - On his death, they go to his representatives, like the residue of his property.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - “I find myself growing faint, so I shall refer you to my will for my disposition of the residue.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding - The heirs in remainder were Drusus, Tiberius’s son, for one third, and Germanicus with his three sons for the residue.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius - Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - Then we'll take 40 order for the residue.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe - There is a small residue of ascetic cruelty in this demand.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The residue all went to Sir Henry.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - “And how much was the residue?” “Seven hundred and forty thousand pounds.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - There was still a residue of personal property as well as the land, but the whole was left to one person, and that person was—O possibilities!
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot
