What's the difference between acrylic and glass?

Acrylic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
  • (2) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
  • (3) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
  • (4) They were an order of magnitude larger for poly(acrylic acid) due to the lack of cationic groups.
  • (5) By embedding the biopsy in the acrylic resin LR White, unsupported sections of which are stable in the electron beam, light and electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry become feasible on sections from the same block.
  • (6) One must pay attention to the setting expansion of plasters and to the setting contraction of acrylic resins which may be very important if these materials are used without care.
  • (7) This study suggests that glass fibers can be pretreated with a silane coupling agent to obtain a chemical bond between the fibers and the acrylic resin.
  • (8) For comparison, the same characteristics of currently used 20% water-soap benzylbenzoate emulsion and of the new ointment base, SAKAP (acryl copolymer), have been examined.
  • (9) The medium-viscosity polyvinylsiloxane impression material showed significantly higher adhesive bond strength to polystyrene than autopolymerizing acrylic resin whereas polysulfide and condensation silicone impression materials adhered significantly better to autopolymerizing acrylic resin than polystyrene.
  • (10) To support this, a small study on dentate subjects suggests the covering of the palatal mucosa with an acrylic plate does not affect masticatory performance.
  • (11) Use of a vacuum device on the mixed acrylic resin works as well as pressure polymerizing.
  • (12) Total joint arthroplasties with metal, plastic, and acrylic materials have revolutionized the surgical treatment of arthritis.
  • (13) The polyacrylate fraction, as well as glucose and acrylate, are removed and mineralized to CO2.
  • (14) The effect of nine different designs on the strength of acrylic resin attachment to the partial denture framework in anterior endentulous spaces was tested.
  • (15) Initially the release of chlorhexidine acetate from cold cured acrylic strips into water, was measured spectrophotometrically over a 15 day period.
  • (16) In attempt to standardize an experimental model for biomechanical studies of unstable trochanteric fractures, acrylic models of the proximal femur were investigated by the photoelastic technique.
  • (17) All bridges were made of type-3 casting gold and heat-cured acrylic veneering.
  • (18) The acrylic acid polymer showed a longer GI transit time than the methacrylic acid polymer, and this in vivo GI transit result is consistent with in vitro bioadhesion test results.
  • (19) Many of the acrylic resin and bent-wire temporary partial dentures in use today produce pathologic changes in the oral mucosa.
  • (20) Results of in vivo metabolism studies with acrylic acid (AA) have indicated that 60-80% of the administered dose is excreted as CO2 within 2-8 hr of oral dosing of rats; however, the pathway of AA metabolism to CO2 in mammals has not been determined.

Glass


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
  • (v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  • (v. t.) Anything made of glass.
  • (v. t.) A looking-glass; a mirror.
  • (v. t.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
  • (v. t.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
  • (v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
  • (v. t.) A weatherglass; a barometer.
  • (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. t.) To case in glass.
  • (v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
  • (v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (2) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
  • (3) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
  • (4) Populations of lymphocytes were separated using glass and nylon wool.
  • (5) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
  • (6) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
  • (7) A reference glass, five ceramic materials, and one resin-based composite were tested.
  • (8) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
  • (9) Samples of rockwool and glass fibre were compared with chrysotile fibres for their capacity to hydroxylate 2-deoxyguanosine to 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine, a reaction that is mediated by formation of hydroxyl radicals.
  • (10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
  • (11) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (12) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (13) Three brands of glass ionomer were applied to prepared dentin surfaces of extracted human molars, after one of four treatments with polyacrylic acid.
  • (14) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (15) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
  • (16) When used in snail neurones such electrodes gave very similar pHi values to those recorded simultaneously by recessed-tip glass micro-electrodes.
  • (17) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
  • (18) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (19) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (20) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.

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