Similarly, mixing starch into concentrated sulfuric acid will give elemental carbon and water as absorbed by the sulfuric acid (which becomes slightly diluted).

But the anger was diluted slightly by confusion, and even a touch of fright.

The intensity of the colour achieved is also much greater, as the shades become of necessity slightly diluted when mixed into icing.

After all, the blood in his veins was that of aristocrats and Dons, only slightly diluted.

Bushra Kanafani, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, in her first public remarks on the attack, presented on Saturday a slightly diluted version of the same warning.

Using a squeeze bottle and slightly diluted acrylic paint, Mason drew in raised lines and the overall feeling of each work became tapestries of acrylic paint.

Brindle: An extremely rare horse coat color, it features faint vertical striping in a shade slightly diluted from the base coat color.

Or a slightly embellished truth, or a slightly diluted truth, as the case might be.

Help yourself - good salt water, slightly diluted with fresh, if that suits your taste.

At the auction, the group see Thaddeus outbid by an American, who tastes the cask, and is apparently happy with the slightly diluted blend.