"Subscript" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have been added to clarify fractions. Underscores before bracketed numbers/letters in equations denote a subscript. ...
— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons
... lightning. We see on the left the molecules of oxygen and nitrogen, before taking the electric treatment, as separate elemental pairs, and then to the right of the arrow we find them as compound molecules of nitric oxide. This takes up another atom of oxygen from the air and becomes NOO, or using a subscript figure to indicate the number of atoms and so avoid repeating the letter, NO{2} which is the familiar nitro group of nitric acid (HO—NO{2}) and of its salts, the nitrates, and of its organic compounds, the high explosives. ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson
... printed with small subscript brackets. They occur whenever a catalog entry ends with an abbreviation ("Tom.", "Vol.", "papr."); the final period was supplied by the editor in most of these entries. Under the headings of Forma, ...
— The Library of William Congreve • John C. Hodges |
