What's the difference between argentous and silvery?
Argentous
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, silver; -- said of certain silver compounds in which silver has a higher proportion than in argentic compounds; as, argentous chloride.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(2) The composition of the triglycerides of liver, egg yolk and adipose tissue of laying hens fed on a standard diet were investigated by using argentation thin-layer chromatography to separate the triglycerides according to their degree of unsaturation.
(3) David Loewi, co-owner of the group behind high-end London restaurants Le Pont de la Tour, Coq D’Argent and Quaglino’s, who is also chairman of the Restaurant Association trade body, said erecting barriers to the employment of workers from Europe would be “extremely detrimental and would stop the growth of businesses”.
(4) Their occurrence in phospholipid molecules also having docosahexaenoate (22:6) explains the separation of major dipolyunsaturated phosphatidylcholines from retina into dodecaenoic, undecaenoic, and decaenoic fractions after argentation thin layer chromatography.
(5) The endothelial lining (EL) of ventricular endocardium and coronary arteries of a dog, minipig and humans, as well as that of the abdominal aorta of a rat and superior vena cava (minipig) was studied using luminescent microscope in the reflected light after staining of the non-fixed tissue with thioflavine-T and argentation.
(6) The relative retention times of estrogen sulphates for reversed-phase, ion-pair and argentous chromatography have been determined.
(7) In a legal agreement with Camden council, Argent pledged that of the 1,946 homes to be built on the site, 750 would be affordable.
(8) Nathan Argent, the head of Greenpeace's energy solutions unit, also hit out at the plans.
(9) Based on evidence by chemical ionization and electron impact mass spectrometry before and after catalytic hydrogenation, and argentation t.l.c., these lipids have been tentatively identified as 26:5, 28:5, 30:5, 30:6, 30:7, 32:5, 32:6, 32:7, 34:5 and 34:6 fatty acids.
(10) Please contact us if you have any useful information,” it read, above a picture of Bélanger, who works at the Coq d’Argent in the City.
(11) In Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent the camera is moving on a dolly throughout the entire movie.
(12) The reaction products were identified as their methyl ester derivatives by argentation thin-layer chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography, and reductive ozonolysis followed by gas-liquid chromatography.
(13) 53, 509-518) were resolved into molecular species by argentation thin-layer chromatography.
(14) Rufus Norris on Trevor Argent I met Trev when I joined his decorating team on a block of flats in Kidderminster, probably in 1984.
(15) For characterization of the plasma LCAT-derived reaction products formed in vitro, [14C]cholesterol was used as the substrate and the newly formed molecular species of [14C]CE were separated by argentation thin-layer chromatography.
(16) The medullary nuclei and the primary projections of the octaval nerve have been studied in the Teleost Chelon labrosus, using argentic impregnations, NISSL stains and anterograde marking with peroxidase.
(17) 14C-prostaglandins detected by high-performance liquid chromatography and argentation thin-layer chromatography were: PGF1 alpha and PGE1 (derived from 20:3n-6) and PGF2 alpha and PGE 2 (derived from 20:4n-6) from line 4526; PGE1 and PGE2 from line 168.
(18) Argentation thin-layer chromatography was effective in resolving the isomeric mixture into a single isomer or mixture of two isomers.
(19) The fatty acid was identified as 9-trans-hexadecenoic acid by gas chromatography, argentation thin-layer chromatography, and infrared absorption spectrometry.
(20) The fatty acid was identified as oleic by argentation thin-layer chromatography.
Silvery
Definition:
(a.) Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
(a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.
(a.) Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fat silvery frames wrapping around groups of floors in a vain attempt to break up the sheer bulk, it looks like a stack of hard drives or the back of a computer server – an accidental nod to the nearby Silicon Roundabout.
(2) From the meeting room window, you could sense the corporation's heritage and scale: the immense old grey whale of Television Centre to the south, its 50-year-old curves barnacled with more recent additions; to the west, the long silvery blocks of the BBC's newer "Media Village", opened in 2004, at the peak of the corporation's modern expansion, by Jonathan Ross himself.
(3) They have arranged the new paving into a broad diamond pattern of pale granite on dark, put all the street lighting on to a row of tall, silvery masts.
(4) An odd-looking fellow, with a deep voice, a weather-beaten face and silvery hair, topped by a beret worn in military fashion.
(5) This layer contains a horseshoe-shaped gland, the choroid gland, the outer portion of which is surrounded by a layer of silvery guanin crystals generally termed the argentea.
(6) To examine the changes in secretion of growth hormone (GH) and prolactin (PRL) with reference to their osmoregulatory roles, changes in pituitary mRNA levels and plasma concentrations of these hormones were examined during seawater adaptation in silvery juveniles (smolts) and precociously mature males (dark parr) of amago salmon (Oncorhynchus rhodurus).
(7) Sir John may have hair that is more silvery than ever, and his sky-blue tie shines like the sun on a tropical sea at daybreak, but he still brings a powerful whiff of the past.
(8) It is Patrick Dempsey growing from spindly tween idol into a silvery heartthrob.
(9) In her biography, Dusty , Lucy O’Brien quotes Jerry Wexler, who produced Dusty in Memphis along with Arif Mardin, talking about the uniqueness of her sound: “There were no traces of black in her singing, she’s not mimetic… She has a pure silvery stream.” Silvery, I like that.
(10) Her long blond hair, tied back as usual, has turned silvery grey.
(11) Built on an artificial island, it looks beautiful from above, with all the complexity of an airport resolved into a single silvery object.
(12) Courtesy of Sir Peter Blake He started to do them in a thin, silvery watercolour, which he felt conveyed the essence of a dream, but later adopted a wider palette after realising that his own dreams were in colour.
(13) The managing director of the IMF may look like one of those statuesque silvery models who appear in Weekend's All Ages fashion pages, but she is one of the world's most powerful women, in the eye of the world's worst storm in living memory.
(14) Atlantic fronts barrel in, clouds tussle, shafts of sunbeams and great fat silvery pools of light chase over swelling seas to fields of infinite greens.
(15) A silvery thread snakes through paper made from white cotton.
(16) Clad with vertical solar fins designed to protect the interior offices from glare, these silvery slats are stretched open as the building swells upwards, giving it the look of a broad-shouldered banker bursting out of his pin-striped suit – now with deadly laser beam eyes.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diego Nazario, back, and Emanuel Dantas Borges, train in the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, surrounded by dead small silvery fish.
(18) In a recent study by Miceli, Silveri, Romani, and Caramazza (Brain and Language, 1989, 36, 447-492), free speech records for 20 unselected Italian-speaking agrammatic patients were analyzed along a variety of linguistic parameters, with particular emphasis on substitution and omission errors within traditional "part of speech" categories.
(19) Gaze out on to the silvery surf unrolling behind your cruise liner?
(20) An increase in seawater adaptability was observed in silvery juvenile amago salmon as underyearlings from autumn to winter, when some of the wild population migrate to the sea.