What's the difference between aluminous and luminous?

Aluminous


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fertility (fertile eggs per 100 set) and hatchability (live chicks per 100 fertile eggs) were both nil in the borate-treated hens, compared with 57 and 95 and 59 and 100 for the control and aluminate-treated hens, respectively.
  • (2) Under four loading conditions, the tensile stress distributions on the ceramics crown were analyzed to evaluate the relations between three kinds of ceramics crown, which were an aluminous porcelain jacket crown, a feldspathic porcelain jacket crown and an Olympus castable ceramics (O.C.C.)
  • (3) In contrast, no bone was seen within the pores of any of the calcium aluminate implants.
  • (4) The specimens consisted of four groups of a basic calcium aluminate composition with additions of 5, 10, 15 and 20 wt% phosphorous pentoxide (P2O5).
  • (5) A significantly higher absorption was observed from the colloidal bismuth subcitrate (0.042% of the dose) and the basic bismuth gallate (0.038%) than from the basic bismuth salicylate, nitrate, and aluminate (0.005-0.002%).
  • (6) Implantation of 0.172 to 0.332 g porous resorbable calcium aluminate ceramic was not toxic to the animal.
  • (7) The Kindt clamp was manufactured from AISI 301 stainless steel with a silicate-aluminized outer coating.
  • (8) A macroporous silica - silochrom - used for immobilization and purification of biopolymers was modified by dehydroxylation and alumination.
  • (9) This study demonstrated that quantitative fractography can be used to study failed aluminous and glass-ceramic central porcelains.
  • (10) Materials responding to the demands of biocompatibility are certain forms of porcelain, vitrified carbon, titanium, calcium aluminate.
  • (11) In aqueous solutions there are only two main Al(III) species: the hexahydrate Al3+ at pH < 5.5 and the tetrahedral aluminate at pH > 6.2.
  • (12) The values were 0.91, 0.91, 0.86 and 0.86, 0.74, 0.89 for the control and aluminate groups, respectively.
  • (13) The initial steps in the separation of catecholamines were performed by alumine, a weak cation-exchange resin, and thin-layer chromatographic techniques.
  • (14) Aluminous porcelains had lower transparency with different refractive index due to generation of crystals following the crystallization of glass matrix than that without crystallizing property.
  • (15) A translucent aluminous porcelain was developed for dentistry.
  • (16) The paste was found to be more effective for aluminous porcelains than for an inlay ceramic, although only when applied to the surface placed in tension.
  • (17) A method has been evolved for bonding aluminous porcelain to pure platinum foil used for making porcelain crowns by the conventional 'tinner's joint' technique.
  • (18) Amino acid activation by anhydride formation in model tetrahedral silicate and aluminate sites in clays and neutral phosphates have been studied by semi-empirical molecular orbital calculations.
  • (19) An antimicrobial effect was recorded also in aluminous plates disturbed by disinfection.
  • (20) Groups of six hens were fed on either a control diet, or the control diet plus 15 g kg-1 of either sodium metaborate or sodium meta-aluminate.

Luminous


Definition:

  • (a.) Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.
  • (a.) Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.
  • (a.) Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
  • (2) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
  • (3) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
  • (4) In the area of the porta hepatis, there were many epithelial luminal structures in fibrous tissue with inflammatory infiltrates.
  • (5) At high luminances, the temporal, but not spatial, properties of this mechanism break down in a manner which had not been studied.Low-frequency inhibitory processThis process is manifest as a decrease in sensitivity from that of the simple excitatory process.
  • (6) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
  • (7) Conclusions derived from these studies are: 1) The model used is a valid means of studying in vivo luminal disappearance of PLP in the rat jejunum; 2) a major portion of the disappearance seems to involve hydrolysis by alkaline phosphatase; 3) a significant portion of this hydrolysis occurs intraluminally; and 4) a second mechanism of PLP disappearance, which is nonphosphatase-mediated, also appears operative and may represent absorption of the intact, phosphorylated vitamin.
  • (8) In man, well-controlled studies in selected groups of patients have already shown that a reduction of luminal stenosis may take place.
  • (9) These alterations include fenestration, widened intercellular junctions, increase in pinocytotic vesicles, and infolding of the luminal surface.
  • (10) Thresholds were measured for detecting perturbations in a regular lattice of dots by modulating local dot density, local dot luminance, or some combination of the two.
  • (11) Six abnormal colonoscopic appearances were documented, namely mucosal edema, ulcers, friability, punctate spots, erythematous areas and luminal exudate.
  • (12) In short-term studies, luminal biotin disappearance from rat ileum was about half that observed in the jejunum, whereas absorption by proximal colon was about 12% of that in the jejunum.
  • (13) The wave forms of the equiluminance stimulus onset responses were similar to ERGs evoked with luminance decrease and the stimulus offset PERGs were like ERGs elicited by luminance increase.
  • (14) The tuning curves for orientation of cortical cells maintain, to a first approximation, the same shape at the various levels of mean luminance.
  • (15) Ependymal cells developed luminal fronds that projected into the ventricle and the subpial glia displayed a very subtle gliosis in the form of thin multi-laminated processes.
  • (16) Intracellular Na+ due to passive Na+ inflow may activate cooperatively the Na(Cl) transport system at luminal plasma membrane and membrane of secretory granules in high levels of (Na+)in.
  • (17) The instrument is based on an established procedure for dark adaptation measurement in which the subject continuously adjusts the threshold luminance of a recurrently flashing stimulus.
  • (18) Both the spatial and the temporal characteristics of the negative-afterimage process are consistent with its being a component of local luminance adaptation.
  • (19) Therefore, we studied 122 consecutive clinically stable patients with angiographically defined CAD (greater than 75 per cent luminal stenosis) and a positive exercise test.
  • (20) We have isolated a mutant of the luminous bacterium Beneckea harveyi, which requires exogenous adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) to synthesize luciferase and emit light.

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