What's the difference between aqua and blue?

Aqua


Definition:

  • (n.) Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In tissue culture we tested the influence of two injectable solutions [lens epithelial necrosis factor (LENF)] and aqua bidest.
  • (2) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
  • (3) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
  • (4) The second-order rate constants estimated for the association of Zn2+ and Cd2+ to the tetrameric site indicate that the loss of the first inner-sphere aqua ligand is the rate-limiting step for binding.
  • (5) I group--control; II group--animals treated with aqua solution of cadmium sulphate; III group--animals treated with aqua solution of cadmium sulphate and lead acetate simultaneously and IV group--animals treated with aqua solution of lead acetate.
  • (6) The pathophysiologic effects of anatoxin-a(s) from the cyanobacterium Anabaena flos-aquae NRC-525-17 were investigated in anaesthetized adult male Sprague Dawley rats given the toxin by continuous intravenous infusion until death.
  • (7) It is conspicous that P. aeruginosa dies off in aqua bidest, within 4 d while it is able to grow in tap-water.
  • (8) Thin-layer chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography results indicate that Aphanizomenon flos-aquae NH-5 may produce paralytic shellfish poisons, mainly neo-saxitoxin and saxitoxin.
  • (9) A total of 18 scotochromogenic isolates cultured from 14 patients with positive X-ray findings were identified as Mycobacterium aquae (M. gordonae) and its variants: strains showing slow Tween hydrolysis and 1 strain of rapid growth.
  • (10) The reversibility of inhibition of plasma, red blood cell (RBC), and diaphragm cholinesterase (ChE) and clinical signs in mice given anatoxin-a(s) [antx-a(s)], a ChE inhibitor from Anabaena flos-aquae NRC-525-17, were characterized and compared with the effects of 2 known ChE inhibitors, the organophosphorus compound paraoxon and the carbamate pyridostigmine bromide.
  • (11) Incubation of 5 micrometer cryostat sections in narrow jars in the following medium (38.5 ml):--10 ml of 0.2 M sodium phosphate buffer pH 7.6 (52 mM).--18 mg tetranitro-BT in 0.5 ml dimethylformamide and aqua bidest.
  • (12) The samples were digested in micro-Kjeldahl flasks with a mixture of sulfuric, perchloric, and nitric acids; the residue was treated with aqua regia and extracted into methylisobutyl ketone (MIBK); levels of gold were then measured by GFAA.
  • (13) A new instrument, the aqua-stream and aspirator (AS & A) is useful and safe for microscopical neurosurgery.
  • (14) Samples are solubilized in dilute aqua regia after being subjected to an oxygen plasma, low-temperature (less than 190 degrees C) ashing system for 20 to 30 hours.
  • (15) Its "aqua thermal journey" invites guests to spend two hours enjoying seven different heat experiences.
  • (16) For aqua regia etching, Type 2 inlay wax appeared to provide sufficient protection.
  • (17) The observation system consists of a special aquarium coupled to a recirculating water system, and an Opto-Varimex-Aqua activity tracking meter (Columbus Instruments, Columbus, Ohio) interfaced to a microcomputer.
  • (18) Cows were infected subcutaneously with Mycobacterium aquae, Mycobacterium fortuitum, Micobacterium vaccae, and Mycobacterium smegmatis.
  • (19) The behaviour in moist environment is examined at room temperature in aqua bidest.
  • (20) Specially designed orthodontic bands were cemented with either Ketac-Cem (K-C) or Aqua-Cem (A-C).

Blue


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.
  • (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
  • (superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
  • (superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
  • (superl.) Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.
  • (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
  • (n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.
  • (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
  • (pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
  • (v. t.) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
  • (2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (3) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
  • (4) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
  • (5) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
  • (6) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
  • (7) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
  • (8) After methylene blue, the gradient in resting potential across the circular layer was greatly reduced or abolished.
  • (9) Furthermore, Methylene Blue contamination of the standard stain increased the rate of error in image analysis of white blood cell nuclei due to variations of staining intensity.
  • (10) The purpose was to show whether or not the methylene-blue test can be postponed to the second day.
  • (11) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
  • (12) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (13) The amount of formazan obtained after incubating vital cells with Meldola Blue as electron carrier was greater than that obtained with Methylene Blue, menadione, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, 1-methoxyphenazine methosulphate or phenazine methosulphate.
  • (14) India will have three carriers and both China and India are building blue-water [ocean-going] navies.
  • (15) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
  • (16) The results showed immunostaining to function equally well on frozen and routine sections, and to be superior to Alcian Blue and PAS with regard to morphological detail.
  • (17) The working women lost their elasticity more rapidly than the nuns, and the male blue collar workers lost their elasticity more rapidly than the male white collar workers.
  • (18) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (19) Microotoscopy showed a blue pulsating mass behind the tympanic membrane.
  • (20) One day, out of the blue, there's a knock on the door.