(n.) An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.
Example Sentences:
(1) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(2) This area was selected for study because of its large mineral deposits and concentration of elements, e.g., iron, copper, silver, antimony, and particularly mercury.
(3) The inhibition of osmotic stimulated water flow in the isolated toad bladder by 0.1 mM sodium stibogluconate (pentavalent antimony) is described.
(4) The antimony in metallic kitchen ware was determined.
(5) Although previously published animal data suggest utility of Tc-99m stannous phytate for lymph-node imaging, Tc-99m antimony sulfide was shown in this clinical comparison to provide a more reliable representation of lymph-node anatomy.
(6) Rather surprising were the contents of mercury, indium, and cadmium found in some of the alloys as well as the low-level concentration of lead, and in a few cases antimony.
(7) Organic antimonials were most active when anmastigotes were exposed to them prior to entry of the parasites into host cells.
(8) Ureastibamine, a pentavalent antimonial, reduced the parasitic load in the 60-day model of infection of L. donovani in hamsters.
(9) As dosage regimens for treating leishmaniasis have evolved, the daily dose of antimony and the duration of therapy have been progressively increased to combat unresponsiveness to therapy.
(10) To obtain the usual values of arsenic, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, mercury, methyl mercury, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, lead, antimony, vanadium, and zinc in the normal human body, the amounts of 15 metals were determined in 15 male and 15 female Japanese cadavers (average weight, 55 kg [121 lb]).
(11) It is an effective alternative to antimony therapy, and in some cases resistant to antimony, it may be the drug of choice.
(12) Solid state memories are preferred, glass or antimony electrodes may be used and the data analysis should be performed on an ordinary personal computer.
(13) There is only a few hundred ohms resistance between an antimony pH electrode and the reference electrode so that the voltage generated can be recorded with simple low-impedance recorders linked to microcomputers.
(14) A series of 31 patients presenting with skin lesions with positive smears for leishmania parasites were treated with sodium stibogluconate (each ml of injection containing the equivalent of 100 mg pentavalent antimony).
(15) FEV1 was recorded at regular intervals during the hour of provocation, and acid reflux (pH less than 4) was monitored by antimony pH electrodes in the esophagus.
(16) This difference could be corrected by a modified calibration, using the external skin reference electrode of the antimony electrode (finger calibration).
(17) When healed lesions of 14 of these subjects were re-biopsied 1 to 12 months after the end of pentavalent antimonial therapy, MHC class II antigens could no longer be seen on keratinocytes.
(18) Dogs naturally infected with Leishmania infantum Nicolle were treated with three courses of meglumine antimoniate.
(19) Lines expressing lmpgpA showed resistance to arsenite and trivalent antimonials, but not to pentavalent antimonials, zinc, cadmium, or the typical multidrug-resistant P-glycoprotein substrates vinblastine and puromycin.
(20) Therefore data recorded with antimony electrodes cannot be compared with those recorded with glass electrodes.
Pewter
Definition:
(n.) A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.
(n.) Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(2) The pewter trait is allelic with and phenotypically identical to platinum, and represents an independent recurrence of this mutant.
(3) All of them were employed in small (not more than 30 persons) pewter factories and were randomly selected from those regularly controlled by the National Health Service, Occupational Health Unit of Brescia (USSL 41).
(4) An interview with Messud in New York magazine – in the form of an "at home" with her and her husband James Wood, once of this parish and now book critic at the New Yorker – kicks off by telling us that her hair has turned grey, swiftly qualified to a somewhat classier-sounding pewter, which, luckily, looks well with her shirt and necklace.
(5) Naked bulbs sit in glass lantern boxes on the walls; tiny pewter plates are laid on light oak refectory tables.
(6) Other finds include an amber charm in the shape of a gladiator's helmet, which may have been a good luck charm for an actual gladiator; a horse harness ornament combining two lucky symbols, a fist and a phallus, plus clappers to make a jingling sound as the horse moved; and a set of fine-quality pewter bowls and cups, which were deliberately thrown into a deep well.
(7) The results of a survey performed in 50 pewter manufacturing workers, as well as in 16 workmen involved in artistic bronze melting, are also reported.
(8) Compared with 1980, say, when Golding's Rites of Passage pipped Burgess's Earthly Powers , this is an age of pewter.
(9) The woman beside me – Stars ’n’ Stripes Hat – was wearing a pewter elephant pendant.
(10) It is the same with Miss Amelia Martin in "The Milliner's Mishap", eyeing up her friend's wedding breakfast ("pewter-pots at the corners; pepper, mustard and vinegar in the centre; vegetables on the floor") – a world so vivid and variegated to the person writing about it that there is almost too much to set down.
(11) I slammed the rusting door, and set off with my binoculars through a forest washed pewter with frost.