(n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.
Example Sentences:
(1) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(2) Top city fallers Belfast – prices down 37% on Q1 of 2008 to £190,915 Norwich – down 23% to £154,557 St Albans – down 22% to £272,813 Newcastle – down 19% to £147,104 Leeds – down 18% to £156,897 Lowest city fallers Bath – prices down 7% on Q1 of 2008 to £221,695 Durham City – down 8% to £137,821 Glasgow – down 10% to £154,989 Edinburgh – down 10% to £228,528 Sunderland – down 12% to £130,164
(3) January 13, 2016 The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale , who grows his own lettuce, named butter lettuce his favourite but added: “I’m very inclusionary when it comes to lettuce.” There were no personal questions about produce preferences in St Albans.
(4) Uddin was facing allegations over a £100,000 claim in allowances, and Lord Clarke of Hampstead, a former party chairman, admitted his "terrible error" in claiming up to £18,000 a year for overnight subsistence when he often stayed with friends in London or returned home to St Albans, Hertfordshire.
(5) The president of St Albans football club in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as a season ticketholder at Chelsea and Fulham, he collaborated with Michael Parkinson on the book Football Classified (1974), and wrote two of his own, My Sporting Life and Football Final (both 1975).
(6) In a new preface to his 1990 booklet on gay relationships, Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans, writes that, by setting themselves against same-sex marriage, the bishops of the Church have prioritised the union of the Anglican communion over the rights of gay Christians.
(8) Retroviral insertion of the Plowell cDNA into the genome of 3T3 fibroblasts demonstrated that it directed the synthesis of alpha 1AT, but at levels 24% that of the Psaint albans cDNA or the normal M1 (Val213) cDNA, with a pattern of biosynthesis consistent with the concept that the Plowell alpha 1AT deficiency state results from intracellular degradation of the newly synthesized Plowell protein.
(9) The bishop of St Albans, the Rt Rev Dr Alan Smith, told the programme: “The issue is whether we think that what makes for human thriving is more and more shopping and whether actually there are other things that we as a society might want to value and champion.” Research by the New West End Company, which provides management and marketing services to 25 streets within London’s retail heartland, suggests that extending Sunday trading by two hours in the capital would create almost 3,000 jobs and generate more than £200m a year in extra income.
(10) Passengers who travel from St Albans to St Pancras each day (a 20-mile journey) will soon be paying £3,380 a year for their gold card.
(11) Paul Frost, from Sheffield, was jailed for 15 months while a fourth man, 32-year-old Ian Sambridge, of St Albans, Hertfordshire, who admitted distributing indecent images of children, was given a 12-month sentence suspended for two years and 240 hours of community service.
(12) Photograph: PA His rival Luisa Zissman, 25, who runs a cupcake shop in St Albans, Hertfordshire, said she had the "energy of a Duracell bunny, sex appeal of Jessica Rabbit, and a brain like Einstein".
(13) Alban said she held "cordial and constructive" talks with the government at the FCO.
(14) The first, Plowell, is a deficiency allele associated with reduced serum alpha 1AT levels, and the second, Psaint albans, is associated with normal serum levels.
(15) Damage to overhead power lines in St Albans caused trains from St Pancras station in London to be cancelled.
(16) Efficiently told, with full space given to the choreography, this Swan Lake comes with some fine casts: Alina Cojocaru paired with Ivan Vasiliev; Tamara Rojo with Alban Lendorf.
(17) Andrew Grant, headteacher of St Albans School and chair of the HMC, said private schools were "happy to have a fuller clarification on deadlines", but said there still appeared to be "confusion in the minds of the commission" about how private schools should show they are fulfilling the public benefit test.
(18) Ecuador's UK ambassador, Anna Alban, met the government on Wednesday morning, and said he was under its protection while it considered the application, which came after his failed bid to avoid extradition to Sweden under a European arrest warrant to face sex crime allegations.
(19) Pope Adrian IV was born Nicholas Breakspear around 1100 AD, close to St Albans in Hertfordshire, England.
(20) In contrast, Psaint albans, a slightly more cathodally positioned variant on IEF analysis, differed from the coding exons of the normal M1(Val213) allele by two mutations, Asp341 GAC----Asn AAC, and a silent substitution in the same codon as the Plowell variant, Asp256 GAT----Asp GAC.
Crystalline
Definition:
(a.) Consisting, or made, of crystal.
(a.) Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
(a.) Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
(1) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(2) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(3) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(4) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(5) These two crystallins were compared with respect to their native molecular masses, subunit structures, peptide mapping and amino acid compositions in order to establish the identity of each crystallin.
(6) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(7) Antigenic properties of crystalline pepsin, trypsin and chymotrypsin were studied in 9 rabbits immunised with these enzymes.
(8) X-ray diffraction spectrum of 1:8 coprecipitate (COPPT) showed no crystalline structure of AD.
(9) However, significant differences in the formation and melting of the highly crystalline phase were evident between the two polar headgroup stereoisomers.
(10) Degradation studies of the crystalline antibiotic, m.p.
(11) Crystalline derivatives of the amino sugar i. e. methyleremosaminide and methyl-N,O-acetyleremosaminide (alpha- and beta-anomers) were prepared.
(12) A systematic structural comparison of several carp gamma-crystallins with high methionine contents was made by the secondary-structure prediction together with computer model-building based on the established X-ray structure of calf gamma-II crystallin.
(13) The lens cell-free system synthesizes in addition to the crystallins, polypeptides which co-electrophorese with lens plasma membrane protein components.
(14) Arrhenius plots of the leakage rates showed breaks in the 20-25 degrees C temperature range, which correspond to the gel-liquid crystalline phase transition of the target liposomes.
(15) These results suggest that ATP modulates the functional behavior of alpha-crystallin.
(16) Because anesthetics transform the solid-gel membrane into a liquid-crystalline state, and because phospholipid membranes display an anomaly in permeability at the phase transition, dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles were studied at temperatures above the main phase transition to avoid this anomaly.
(17) By monitoring the synthesis of specific lens crystallin proteins, and the morphological and cellular changes associated with this differentiated system, we have demonstrated a close correlation between statin expression and cell commitment to the G0 nonreplicative cell cycle state.
(18) Developmental regulation of crystallin protein synthesis was observed in rat lenses between embryonic day 19 and postnatal day 21.
(19) Bovine lens calf gamma-II crystallin contains five histidine residues at sequence positions 14, 53, 84, 117, and 122.
(20) A second crystalline material was observed within cells in the 15,000 X g pellet from spinal fluid.