(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.
(n.) A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
(n.) White metal coated with silver.
(n.) A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.
(n.) A citizen of the Argentine Republic.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
(3) Which is another reason why, independent of talent, an Argentine is more likely to make a successful go of life in Madrid, Milan, Manchester or at a pinch (as with the case of the winger Carlos Marinelli) Middlesbrough.
(4) According to the data obtained in this study, Argentine regions may be classified as high, medium or low risk areas, although a lack of adequate dental care was found in all regions.
(5) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
(6) Fifty cases with pyelonephritis were found among 1314 histopathologic studies performed at Children's Hospital of Cordoba, Argentine from 1967 to 1976.
(7) Junin virus-infected rhesus macaques received prophylactic and therapeutic ribavirin to assess the potential of this drug for treating humans with Argentine hemorrhagic fever.
(8) When he was at art college, he looked at the conceptual mood prevailing in Argentine art and did the opposite of what artists today are supposed to do: he set out to tell stories, depict figures, express emotion.
(9) Perhaps the single most telling indicator of the admiration the Argentines feel for the English is that as soon as any of them gets rich they install their children in one of the many private 'English schools' - Northlands, Saint Hilda's, Saint Andrew's - in Buenos Aires's posher suburbs.
(10) "Dermatobia hominis" is widely spread in the warm-climated Argentine northern provinces of Chaco, Formosa and Misiones, as well as in Brazil, Paraguay and some regions of Uruguay.
(11) "Sir Rex will forever be remembered in the islands for his years of service as governor, and particularly for his courage and dignity in facing the Argentine invasion in 1982," it said in a statement.
(12) Plasminogen, alpha 2-antiplasmin, alpha 2-macroglobulin, alpha 1-antitrypsin and fibrinogen degradation products (FDP) were studied in 45 patients with Argentine hemorrhagic fever.
(13) one cable asked diplomats in the Argentine capital.
(14) Last year, another poll to mark the 30th anniversary of the war indicated that 89% of Argentines supported the sovereignty claims of Buenos Aires.
(15) "We strongly condemn this work and have asked the Argentine government to pull the spot," said a spokeswoman for Y&R headquarters in New York.
(16) I predict another penalty shootout, with it going the same way as 2006, but perhaps without the Argentine histrionics afterwards.
(17) The Argentine roc ( Argentavis magnificens ) had a wingspan of 26ft .
(18) As early as November, 1934, when England won the bruising Battle of Highbury against an Italian team which ran amok when its Argentine captain, Luisito Monti, limped early off the field with a broken foot, Matthews was damned in the Daily Mail.
(19) Since then, Britain, the colonial power, has refused to return the territories to the Argentine Republic, thus preventing it from restoring its territorial integrity.
(20) It says there was no civilian population on the island in 1833, with the Royal Navy expelling an Argentine military garrison that had arrived three months earlier.
Calcite
Definition:
(n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The crystallographic orientation of the calcite also appears to be independent of these fibrils.
(2) The calcium carbonates-calcite, aragonite, and vaterite-constitute most of the remainder of the calculi.
(3) Crystallographic analysis of stones from patients with nutritional pancreatitis (NP), as well as alcoholic pancreatitis (AP), revealed that the main constituent was calcite (CaCO3).
(4) Calcite was present in all stones, vaterite in 12%, and a central amorphous material in 30%.
(5) X-ray diffraction showed that calcite (CaCO3) was the major crystalline constituent of the calcareous deposits.
(6) When the doped glasses have been immersed in a physiological solution (199 medium), a film of calcite forms on the glass surface and this modification is related to the type of doping agent used, decisive for close linking between metal supports and the glass.
(7) We suggest that precipitation of calcite in the pancreatic duct occurs as the primary event in the formation of pancreatic calculi and that it may continue until the duct is completely occluded.
(8) 5-7): calcite and quartz are the principal components of the sinters, additional diffuse apatite lines appear in bone samples.
(9) These features are characteristic of sea urchin (Echinoderm) spines which are composed of ornately formed calcite crystals covered by an epithelium.
(10) Its absence in all analyzed invertebrate tissues (including calcitic, aragonitic, and apatitic mineral phases) indicates that matrix protein-bound gamma-carboxyglutamic acid is not obligatory for the calcification process in the invertebrates.
(11) Quantitatively, phosphate is by far the most important inhibitor of calcite precipitation present in saliva, suggesting that inhibition of calcite precipitation by the macromolecules may be of secondary significance.
(12) Plates of calcite (CaCO3) were implanted in rabbit tibiae, and their biocompatibility and bonding ability to bone were studied.
(13) Subsequent increase in diameter of the rod involves the radial development of irregular columns of calcite which arise from the peripheral nodules.
(14) The phenomenon of dissolution and recrystallisation in situ of the calcite can be a trap because it can be a reservoir for micro-organisms.
(15) Synechococcus strain GL24 was isolated from Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, where it has a demonstrated role in the formation of calcitic minerals.
(16) Pancreatic stones are observed in both humans and cattle, and are approximately 95% CaCO3 (calcite) in both species.
(17) Skeletal walls of more than one mineralogy have the magnesium-rich layer (calcite) surrounding the living chamber and the strontium-rich layer (aragonite) on the outside.
(18) Here we report on the ability of a soil bacterium to synthesize calcite in a calcium-stressed environment.
(19) Formation of inner protein nidus in the form of a cobweb is the first stage, then calcite is deposited on this fibrous network as tiny crystals.
(20) The biocompatibility of mammal bone with aragonite and calcite skeletons of aquatic invertebrates (Corals, Molluscs) led us, after animal experimentation, to implant in humans artificial dental roots derived from such invertebrates.