What's the difference between alloy and impair?

Alloy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
  • (v. t.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
  • (v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.
  • (v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
  • (v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
  • (v. t.) To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
  • (v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
  • (v. t.) To form a metallic compound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sulphides, which possibly form on silver alloys, showed cytotoxicity.
  • (2) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
  • (3) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
  • (4) Increased wear-resistance of microsurgical instruments by facing, electric spark alloying and vacuum surfacing increases the working life of the instruments by 1.5-3 times.
  • (5) Pitting corrosion was seen on low-resistant Ni-Cr alloys, which had less Cr content.
  • (6) One alloy tested contained 5% indium, and the second alloy contained 10% indium.
  • (7) Such failures can easily be avoided by using only one alloy with good passivation characteristics instead of different alloys.
  • (8) The investment containing 2.0 wt% NbC showed nearly the same casting accuracy for Ni-Cr alloys for metal-ceramic restoration as the commercial phosphate-bonded investment.
  • (9) It was determined that the Ag-rich phase of Ag-Pd-Cu-Au alloy was preferentially attacked to form Ag2S corrosion product.
  • (10) The current literature, for the most part, cites the use of noble alloys as controls for trials of alternative materials.
  • (11) Titanium-nickel alloy composed of 50% by weight of each metal has unique thermal shape-memory properties, with a transition temperature of 20 degrees C. Each stent consists of one wire with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
  • (12) Irrespective of the coated dental alloy, the coatings have pores, through which the electrolyte is in contact with the substrate material.
  • (13) Forty BIAS femoral stems had heads made of Co-base F 75 alloy and 18 Gustilo-Kyle femoral stems had Ti6A14V alloy heads.
  • (14) The occurrence of marginal spaces between the resin facing and gold alloy framework in 176 crowns and bridge retainers was studied.
  • (15) Base metal alloys, principally made of nickel, chromium, and beryllium have gained widespread usage, especially in the United States, due to their lower cost and higher mechanical properties.
  • (16) The amounts of polyethylene and methylmethacrylate debris and the histological reactions in the tissues corresponded closely with those reported in earlier studies of total hip prostheses made of stainless steel or cobalt-chromium alloy.
  • (17) The bond strength of the specimens brazed with the non-precious alloy was largely unaffected.
  • (18) The traditional alloys used as metal bases for fixed partial dentures are accompanied by various problems such as corrosion, allergy, toxicity, casting, and preparation for both patient and prosthodontist and in magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis.
  • (19) The results revealed that experimental alloys inherited high early and final strength values without any significant change in their microstructure.
  • (20) The surface of dental alloys, on which such a composite plating was made, was analyzed by ESCA.

Impair


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
  • (v. t.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  • (a.) Not fit or appropriate.
  • (n.) Diminution; injury.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (3) The CHI patients were impaired overall on the FTE but not the CTE.
  • (4) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
  • (5) Changes in renal renin levels after the administration of glycerol were not significant, although lower renal renin values were consistently found in rabbits with more severe impairment of renal function.
  • (6) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
  • (7) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
  • (8) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
  • (9) Two hours after the administration, the combinations of ethanol plus diazepam and ethanol plus meclophenoxate impaired significantly the number of necessary repetitions.
  • (10) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (11) The Test of Motor Impairment (TOMI) was used to select 12 children with a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and 12 age-matched controls.
  • (12) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
  • (13) ACTH 4-10 appeared to slightly impair selective attention as indicated by AEP responses.
  • (14) After large bowel removal, there was impaired glucose tolerance and attenuated plasma insulin secretion.
  • (15) Only the aged treatment group demonstrated significantly impaired performance.
  • (16) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (17) This review focused on the methods used to identify language impairment in specifically language-impaired subjects participating in 72 research studies that were described in four journals from 1983 to 1988.
  • (18) Our results clearly indicate impaired carbohydrate metabolism in potassium-depleted rats.
  • (19) One subject had developed renal failure, while the other two continued to function at a high level with no evidence of cognitive decline or psychiatric or neurologic impairment.
  • (20) The subscales Depression, Inactivity and Physical Impairment could not be identified as a factor.