True we should not have altogether got rid of innate tendencies, but we should have reduced them to one, namely, to the struggling, or persisting, or self-asserting tendency; a simplification like that offered by the matter-and-force theory of buchner.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
The mass of crystals is then rapidly filtered on a buchner funnel and sucked as dry as possible.
"Organic-Syntheses"
Conant, James Bryant
In transferring the crystals from the reaction flask to the buchner funnel it is necessary to use a certain amount of water to dissolve the pasty chromium salts which are otherwise quite impossible to filter.
"Organic-Syntheses"
Conant, James Bryant