(n.) A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was conducted to estimate the exposure-response relationship for tremolite-actinolite fiber exposure and radiographic findings among 184 men employed at a Montana vermiculite mine and mill.
(2) Fibrous actinolite was found in unexpanded Montana vermiculite ore at a maximum concentration of 2.0%.
(3) In the control group, predominant fibers were tremolite or actinolite.
(4) Actinolite was also found in the Virginia vermiculite ore but at a lower concentration and mostly as cleavage fragments with low length-to-width ratios.
(5) Health effects have been documented among American vermiculite workers who mined and processed vermiculite contaminated with amphibole asbestos, viz., tremolite-actinolite.
(6) By contrast, tremolite and actinolite constituted the majority of uncoated fibers in these cases.
(7) A dose of 0.25 mg actinolite or UICC chrysotile induced tumours of the peritoneum in more than 50% of the animals.
(8) Polyvinyl-pyridine-N-oxide prolonged the tumour latency after injection of actinolite.
(9) The mean length for bodies formed on chrysotile was 35 micron, and for bodies formed on tremolite or actinolite, 36 micron.
(10) Analysis of lung mineral content revealed background levels of chrysotile but an elevated level of tremolite and actinolite asbestos.
(11) The three groups did not differ significantly with respect to lung burden of chrysotile or tremolite and actinolite, but Group III had a lung burden of amosite and crocidolite that was three orders of magnitude greater than in Groups I and II, with no overlap.
(12) The major types of core fibres of ferruginous bodies were found to be asbestos, including amosite, crocidolite, chrysotile and the tremolite-actinolite series, but a small number of fibres of materials other than asbestos were also detected.
(13) The vermiculite ore and concentrate of a mine and mill near Libby, Montana, was found to be contaminated with fibrous tremolite-actinolite.
(14) The latter had a geometric mean length of 3.7 microns, a value considerably longer than we have found for tremolite and actinolite from Quebec chrysotile miners but roughly the same as the mean length of amosite and crocidolite in workers with occupational amphibole exposure.
(15) Fibrous dusts (chrysotile, glass fibers, nemalite, palygorscite, and gypsum) and granular dusts (actinolite, biotite, hematite, pectolite, sanidine, and talcum) were injected intraperitoneally into rats.
(16) The types of asbestos fibers were chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, actinolite and tremolite.
(17) Mineralogic analysis of four cases showed that 46 of 72 (64%) bodies isolated and examined contained chrysotile cores, and 21 of 72 (29%) bodies contained cores of the amphiboles tremolite and actinolite.
(18) No tremolite or actinolite fibers of length greater than 8 microns microns and width less than 0.25 micron were observed.
(19) On the other hand, tremolite and actinolite fibers constituted non-beaded club-like type II or type IV bodies and tended to have a larger diameter than that of amosite or anthophyllite fibers (p less than 0.005).
(20) Persistent glass fibres were less effective than actinolite having a similar fibre size distribution.
Monoclinic
Definition:
(a.) Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.
Example Sentences:
(1) The crystals are monoclinic, space group C2, with a = 57.18 A, b = 21.63 A, c = 36.40 A, beta = 95.22 degrees, and one hairpin molecule per asymmetric unit.
(2) The space group symmetry is R21; the monoclinic unit cell contains two molecules and has the dimensions a = 12.4291(8), b = 7.4511(5), c = 12.7854(7) angstroms and beta = 102.295(7) degrees.
(3) Pure monoclinic or triclinic calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals, apatite crystals or mixtures of these crystals were injected into the synovial-like space created by the rat air pouch to compare the acute inflammation induced by these crystals.
(4) Crystals of 3 are monoclinic: P2(1), a = 5.317(2), b = 17.059(6), c = 9.514(3) A, beta = 99.18(3), Z = 2.
(5) C10H8F4N10O18, Mr = 632.22, monoclinic, Pc, a = 7.8885 (6), b = 6.7787 (4), c = 21.595 (2) A, beta = 108.21 (1) degree, V = 1096 (1) A3, Z = 2, Dx = 1.914 g cm-3, lambda(Cu K alpha) = 1.5418 A, mu = 18.7 cm-1, F(000) = 636, T = 293 K, 1791 unique data, 1733 with I greater than 3 sigma (I), R = 0.047.
(6) A large number of epitaxially dimensional matches between MSU and triclinic (t) and monoclinic (m) CPPD were identified, suggesting that MSU crystals can epitaxially induce CPPD crystal growth.
(7) C16H22NO+2.Cl-, Mr = 295.808, monoclinic, P2(1), a = 11.967 (1), b = 12.529 (1), c = 9.9369 (9) A, beta = 93.00 (1) degrees, V = 1487.8 (2) A3, Z = 4, Dm = 1.32 (2), Dx = 1.321 Mg m-3, lambda(Cu K alpha) = 1.54178 A, mu(Cu K alpha) = 2.289 mm-1, F(000) = 632, T = 291 K, final R = 0.040 for 2448 observed reflections.
(8) 7120 flavodoxin belong to the monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 48.0, b = 32.0, c = 51.6 A, and beta = 92 degrees, and one molecule in the asymmetric unit.
(9) Crystals grown from ammonium sulfate solutions belong to monoclinic space group C2 with a = 125 A, b = 111 A, c = 83.5 A and beta = 108degrees 45'.
(10) These crystals are monoclinic, space group C2, with unit cell dimensions, a = 2.845 nm, b = 1.354 nm, c = 3.413 nm, beta = 98.6 degrees.
(11) Form II crystallizes as monoclinic blocks, space group P21 with a = 64.5 A, b = 35.1 A, c = 25.2 A and beta = 91.8 degrees.
(12) L-Valyl-L-lysine hydrochloride, C11N3O3H23 HCl, crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 5.438(5), b = 14.188(5), c = 9.521(5) A, beta = 95.38(2) degrees and Z = 2.
(13) The unit cell is monoclinic, space group P2(1), with unit cell parameters: a = 41.4 A, b = 40.1 A, c = 37.5 A, beta = 90.01 degrees.
(14) GPb complexed with pyridoxal 5'-diphosphate (PLPP) has been crystallized in the presence of IMP and ammonium sulfate in the monoclinic R-state crystal form and the structure refined from X-ray data to 2.8 A resolution to a crystallographic R value of 0.21.
(15) The crystals are monoclinic with unit cell dimensions a = 121.2 A, b = 110.5 A, c = 81.8 A, and beta = 97.6 degrees, belonging to space group C2, and contain two molecules in the asymmetric unit.
(16) One grows as monoclinic plates, space group P2(1), with cell dimensions a = 66.9 A, b = 75.2 A, c = 86.9 A and beta = 102.9 degrees and the other as long hexagonal rods in space group P6(1)22 or P6(5)22, with cell dimensions a = b = 119 A, c = 83 A.
(17) To ascertain the sites that are available for strong binding between magnesium ions and phosphate groups in yeast phenylalanine transfer RNA, all distances below 5.5 A separating the phosphoryl oxygens (Op) of the 76 nucleotide residues have been computed from the latest atomic coordinates for the monoclinic form of the tRNA crystallized in the presence of magnesium chloride.
(18) One of them is monoclinic, space group P21, with unit cell dimensions a = 145.6 A, b = 78.1 A, c = 63.1 A, beta = 89.05 degrees, consistent with the presence of two molecules of the complex in the asymmetric unit.
(19) The crystals are monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 42.6, b = 68.1, c = 50.2 A and beta = 112.9 degrees.
(20) Crystals are monoclinic, space group P2(1) with a = 5.088(2), b = 17.112(17), c = 9.581(6) A, beta = 92.34(4) degrees, Z = 2.