(n.) A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.
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Zeolite
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(n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.
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(1) Five experiments were conducted using 36 dietary treatments to compare chloride salts and HCl as chemical sources of Cl for the adjustment of dietary Cl when using sodium aluminosilicate (SAS), to compare SAS to natural zeolites (clinoptilolite and mordenite), and to determine the appropriate level of dietary SAS for optimum egg specific gravity.
(2) The effectiveness of zeolite was lower in media containing nitrogen compounds and in those cases when its doses were low.
(3) We present here a production of anti-bacterial zeolite balloon catheter and investigated its potential for controlling urinary tract infection.
(4) Increased secretion of type 2 alveolocytes as well as participation of type 1 alveolocytes and macrophages in surfactant secretion were established in the course of intratracheal administration of indigestible mineral particles--natural zeolites to white male rats.
(5) Adsorption of hydrogen sulfide, methanethiol, methyl sulfide, trimethylamine, and ammonia on thirteen kinds of adsorbents (5 kinds of silicate, 4 kinds of activated carbon, and 4 kinds of zeolite) was measured by gravimetry, at 30 degrees C and 50 Torr, using an adsorption apparatus with a spring balance in order to find the most suitable adsorbent for the removal of these gases by dry process.
(6) This effect of sodium zeolite A appeared to be beneficial to bone status in the groups fed adequate vitamin D, since these treatment groups had higher, although not significant, dry tibia weights with and without fat.
(7) Observation was made of the influence of natural zeolite (clinoptilolite) supplement in food on 134Cs excretion and distribution after oral internal contamination of laboratory brown rats.
(8) The biologic aggressiveness of the zeolites is discussed in relation to their strong active surface, their ionometabolic properties and their capacity to generate hydrogen at moistering.
(9) The zeolite (clinoptilolite) sorption of arsenic, cadmium, and lead ions from rumen fluid and abomasum juice was investigated in laboratory conditions.
(10) Recent data point to erionite, a zeolite fibre, as the most plausible etiological agent.
(11) The possible mechanisms of zeolite action, together with the effect of the disruptive procedure on the chemical composition of cell wall fragments, were investigated also.
(12) In this village, environmental exposure to erionite, a fibrous zeolite, occurs, and there is an extremely high risk of mesothelioma among the villagers.
(13) It was concluded that zeolite A will significantly increase egg specific gravity and we hypothesize that the mechanism responsible for the significant improvement is related to the high ion-exchange capability of zeolite A.
(14) New phosphor crystals, on the basis of zeolit, activated by tin (Sn), appeared to be a very suitable permanent fluorescent test-object for setting up microscopes, intructing new users and for calibrating microfluorimeters.
(15) The use of a synthetic zeolite (type 4A, Union Carbide Corp., Linde Div., New York, N.Y.) in a procedure for the preparation of pure cell wall fractions proved successful for many gram-positive, gram-negative, and acid-fast bacteria, as well as for some fungi.
(16) Silicon in trace amounts enhances bone formation, and the silicon-containing compound zeolite A (ZA) increases eggshell thickness in hens.
(17) The washed microsomal fraction was exposed to a variety of reagents; a sodium iodide-cysteine treatment increased both adenosine-triphosphatase and exchange activities, as also did a synthetic zeolite.
(18) The adsorption of aflatoxin (AF) B1, contained in aqueous medium or in synthetic medium left after the cultivation of Aspergillus parasiticus NRRL 2999, was studied in two samples of bentonite, two samples of natural zeolite, and three kinds of adsorption coal added to water, to saline, to the blood serum of pigs, to the stomach fluid of pigs or rumen fluid of cows at concentrations of 5 to 50 mg per litre.
(19) Since fibrous zeolites are frequently employed in industry, industrial hygiene and occupational medical consequences need to be drawn.
(20) Sodium zeolite-A increased serum alkaline phosphatase (P less than .04), carcass length (P less than .06), and liver (P less than .02) and bone (P less than .01) Zn content but decreased (P less than .04) serum Ca and serum inorganic P concentrations.