(n.) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination on day 9 and 15 the magaldrate group showed significantly (p less than 0.05) lower aluminium levels than the aluminium hydroxide group.
(2) Al added as AlCl3 or aluminium citrate had no effect, and there was no significant difference in the response of cells from renal failure patients with or without high serum Al levels or controls.
(3) These experimental results demonstrate that aluminium interferes with iron absorption and iron transfer, and suggest that these mechanisms may be responsible for maintaining and even increasing the anaemia observed in aluminium overload.
(4) The latter compounds were reduced with lithium aluminium hydride to the respective amines (II a-c) and then N-alkylated by reaction with 2-propynyl-, 2-butynyl- or 2,3-butadienyl bromides to the corresponding amines (III a-j).
(5) 47 children were immunized in 1968 and 1969 during the first year of life with 3 injections of aluminium free triple vaccine given with an interval of 4--6 weeks.
(6) Rabbits fed a cholesterol-rich diet developed atherosclerosis after 3 months and these rabbits possessed high concentrations of calcium, phosphorus and aluminium in the central nervous system, determined by neutron activation analysis.
(7) These findings suggest that although in rats with normal renal function aluminium absorption appears to be partly vitamin D dependent, 1,25(OH)2D3 does not further augment the enhanced gastrointestinal absorption of aluminium in uraemia.
(8) The entrance window is 12 microns Melinex foil with a thin aluminium surface.
(9) For inactivation of rad54-3 mutant cells, the r.b.e.-values relative to 60Co gamma-rays were 2.6 and 2.4 for carbon K and aluminium K X-rays, respectively.
(10) The absorption of factor VIII from gel filtration fractions, concentrates and plasma by aluminium hydroxide has been studied.
(11) Lymphocytes cultured in the presence of Al-Tf showed a dose-dependent uptake of Al, whereas uptake from aluminium citrate was low and not dose-dependent.
(12) Very small PVC particles, polymerized by the emulsion process, were mounted on an aluminium adhesive tape and pressed with a similar tape.
(13) The antibody responses of animals immunised with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in Freund's Incomplete Adjuvant (FIA), diethylaminoethyl dextran (DEAE-dextran) and aluminium hydroxide (alum) were compared with the response to antigen administered in the absence of adjuvants.
(14) to aluminium chronic poisonning; the source of the aluminium intoxication is not aluminium containing phosphate-binding gels but intravenously administreted tape-water.
(15) Bile acids were extracted from serum samples by chromatography on Amberlite XAD-2 and, after alkaline or enzymic hydrolysis, purified by chromatography on aluminium oxide.
(16) As new aluminium equals energy use and environmental destruction, this raises the question: why can't computers be made from recycled aluminium, given that this uses 95% less energy?
(17) In a multicentre study, 146 peptic ulcer patients who had recently healed with H2 antagonists (38 gastric, 108 duodenal ulcers) received randomly for a year one of the following mucosal protecting antiulcer drugs: aceglutamide aluminium salt (AAL), zinc acexamate (ZAC) and magaldrate (MAG).
(18) It permits the absorption of aluminium in amounts similar to aluminium-containing antacids, and toxicity has been demonstrated in the presence of renal insufficiency.
(19) The method consisted first in preconcentrating the samples collected on immersed gauze pads, secondly in the concentration of the virus samples by the following methods-used either separately or in parallel: the Amberlite method, the yeast cell and the aluminium bydroxide concentration method.
(20) The concentrations of 17 trace elements (e.g., copper, cobalt, iron, manganese, chromium, silicon and magnesium) were determined in whole blood samples of 81 persons working with different welding methods on stainless steel or aluminium and 68 nonwelders.
Laterite
Definition:
(n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.
Example Sentences:
(1) The businesses that bring clay and laterite for landfill.
(2) From there they were driven north towards the village of La Macarena, a spine-crunching six-hour drive along unpaved laterite roads, where Farc has a string of training camps, some of them big enough to host 600 rebel fighters.
(3) Over 5 day incubation under flooded conditions, greater volatile loss of lindane occurred in sandy soil than in alluvial soil apparanetly due to greater adsorption to the soil colloids decreasing the insecticide concentration in the standing water on the laterite soil.
(4) Three species of snails were commonly found: Bulinus guernei was the most common, occurring in permanent habitats, Bulinus senegalensis occurring in laterite pools in the eastern part of the Middle Valley, and also in the ricefields of Guédé Chantier and Lampsar; B. forskalii was found in small numbers in Lac de Guier and Richard Toll.
(5) The intensity and prevalence of Schistosoma haematobium infection has been measured in a community in the laterite plateau area of the McCarthy Island Division, The Gambia.
(6) Some are only heaps of laterite blocks, but many are still astonishing: the towering lotus buds of Angkor Wat, the haunting Ta Prohm, in the clutches of time and strangler figs.
(7) In a search for geochemical factors that could play a role in the pathogenesis of tropical endomyocardial fibrosis, endomyocardial tissue samples obtained from patients at necropsy or operation were analysed for major elements present in laterite and monazite, which are important soil constituents of Kerala State of India.