What's the difference between aphrodite and magnesia?

Aphrodite


Definition:

  • (n.) The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
  • (n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse.
  • (n.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Empson, unforgettable as wisecracking Jamaican gossip Mrs Aphrodite in the Theatre Royal ska musical The Big Life in 2004, is mouthwatering casting as the Queen.
  • (2) In the distance the rock of Hytra can be seen jutting out of the sea: it’s one of the reputed birthplaces of Aphrodite.
  • (3) And in putting Aphrodite's isle back on the road to normality, it will assure him a much bigger place in history that most leaders would crave.
  • (4) Haemoglobins from the nerve and ganglia of the polychaet annelid Aphrodite aculeata L. and from the nerve of the gastropod mollusc Aplysia californica have been partially purified.
  • (5) The coefficients for partition between carbon monoxide and oxygen are: Aphrodite nerve haemoglobin, 167; Aplysia nerve haemoglobin, 116.
  • (6) The chancellor was not amused on opening the local papers and finding herself climbing into the Aphrodite thermal spring in a bathing suit .

Magnesia


Definition:

  • (n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The combination of behavioral treatment with milk of magnesia eliminated soiling accidents and increased the frequency of appropriate bowel movements.
  • (2) Composites containing ceria and magnesia as substitutes for yttria behave similarly.
  • (3) This phenomenon is observed with solids having a dominant basic character (asbestos, magnesia) but is not detected with acidic solids (alumina, silica-alumina).
  • (4) Detection of aluminum, silicon, magnesium, zirconium and oxygen provided a basis to reason the presence of alumina (Al2O3), silica (SiO2), magnesia (MgO), and zirconia (ZrO2).
  • (5) Low walls around the site are studded with blue milk of magnesia bottles in wave formations and more than 25,000 seashells.
  • (6) The intent of this project was to evaluate the susceptibility of a magnesia alumina spinel (Cerestore) to stress corrosion and degradation.
  • (7) Binding of Carafate (sucralfate; Marion Laboratories, Inc., Kansas City, MO) and Maalox (magnesia-alumina oral suspension; Wm.
  • (8) Ninety-five mass% magnesia clinker and 5 mass% dental stone were selected for the main constituents.
  • (9) A detailed 91Zr NMR investigation is presented of the five component (cubic, monoclinic, tetragonal, orthorhombic and delta) phase mixture in the transformation toughened engineering ceramic, magnesia-partially-stabilised zirconia (MgPSZ).
  • (10) This study indicates that distilled water has a significant degradative effect on a magnesia alumina spinel, more likely affecting the mode of fracture rather than the stress corrosion characteristics.
  • (11) The screening test was used for samples from Magnesia, an area on the east coast of Greece, and Ningxia, a rural area in northeast China.
  • (12) This paper reports: (i) the first characterisation of the magnesia-fully-stabilised cubic phase at the eutectic composition (13.5 mol% MgO); (ii) the observation of a poorly ordered tetragonal phase on fast cooling ZrO2 (9.3 mol% MgO) from the cubic phase field at 1720 degrees C, and the subsequent growth and ordering of the tetragonal phase precipitates due to further annealing; (iii) the observation of the (partial) transformation of the cubic phase to the ordered delta-phase (Mg2Zr5O12) on annealing MgPSZ at 1100 degrees C for 8 h; and (iv) the observation of the transformation of the tetragonal phase into the orthorhombic phase after cooling in liquid nitrogen, and the reverse transformation after heating to 600 degrees C.
  • (13) The sequence included: (1) positive reinforcement of bowel movements and the non-occurrence of soiling accidents; (2) self-evaluation; (3) positive practice; (4) milk of magnesia; (5) diet modifications; and (6) a numbered underwear strategy.
  • (14) We treated them with milk of magnesia, high fibre diet, and bowel training techniques and evaluated outcome at one year when 43% had recovered.
  • (15) Prior to LC, esters are saponified, and interfering pigments are removed from ester-free extracts by adsorption on magnesia.
  • (16) The method consists of (a) acetylation of total lipids with pyridine and acetic anhydride, (b) separation of acetylated glycolipids from nonglycolipids on a magnesia-silica gel (Florisil) column, and (c) deacetylation of glycolipid in chloroform-methanol-sodium methoxide.
  • (17) During washout periods, which lasted two weeks each, patients were stabilized with neomycin plus milk of magnesia.
  • (18) The purpose of this research was to study fracture initiation in a glaze-strengthened magnesia ceramic substance used as a core material for all-ceramic crowns.
  • (19) The magnesia investment itself was scarcely affected by induction heating, so the addition of metal powders such as Fe, Ni, Co were investigated.
  • (20) Alumina, magnesia, titania, and a zirconia-coated silica were chosen for comparison with silica.