(v. t.) To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hydrogen sulfide poisoning from inhalation of roofing asphalt fumes is a rare but devastating injury.
(2) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(3) It was established that the corneal sensitivity--especially in its central region--was distinctly lowered in persons employed in the department of asphalt oxidation and cleaning of sewages.
(4) Significantly increased risks emerged for employment in the chemical, petrochemical and plastics industries (RR = 4.0; 95% CI: 1.6-9.8), and for exposure to coal and coke (RR = 4.0; 95% CI: 1.2-13.6), asphalt and tar (RR = 5.5; 95% CI: 1.6-19.6).
(5) When tested on tracks laid by bicycling on grass or asphalt, the choice of direction was not significantly different from random, even though the dogs were always rewarded when making correct choices.
(6) From above, the New York of South America resembles an endless asphalt forest of apartment buildings and freeways, with precious little green.
(7) The region’s politicians are talking about a new airport, asphalt roads, international hotels.
(8) At the Asphalt Paving Services warehouse, down the road from St Paul’s, the lawn is immaculately, precisely cut.
(9) Moreover, A, B, C heavy oils, asphalt, soy sauce and sauce, which apparently resembled lubricants when they adhered to victims, were analysed with this method.
(10) Two cases of toxic inhalation involving exposure to several gases, including hydrogen sulfide, evolved from cooling asphalt, are presented.
(11) From there it was on to Kentucky, which had a 14% poor roads rating and many well-tended arcs of asphalt swooping through lush, wooded hill country.
(12) Boris Nemtsov’s dead body was still lying on the icy asphalt when Vladimir Putin’s spokesman announced that the president believed the murder to be a “provocation”.
(13) Comparison of these data with analyses of the three asphalts indicates that the organisms probably attack the resin components of the asphalts.
(14) Epidemiological data for man accumulated since the IARC report do not fulfil the criteria for showing a causal association between exposure to asphalt and development of cancer.
(15) Samples were obtained during removal of an old coal-tar pitch roof and application of a new asphalt roof.
(16) Automobile exhaust, asphalt, gasoline fuel, diesel fuel, tyre particles, automobile crankcase oils, and atmospheric fallout were also analysed.
(17) The stones were composed of granular calcium bilirubinate and of asphalt-like products derived from abnormal bilirubin degradation.
(18) A similar susceptibility pattern for M. ranae was obtained on the same asphalts, but apparently this organism exerted even a greater effect on asphalt 6A since the viscosity of this residue was too hard to be determined satisfactorily.
(19) Three days later, a judge said she would be charged with mass unrest and harming a representative of the state, arguing that she had hurled rocks, bottles and pieces of asphalt at riot police.
(20) Components of asphalt fumes may have been important to the observed association between risk of cancer and employment in the asphalt industry.
Tar
Definition:
(n.) A sailor; a seaman.
(n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
(v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(2) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(3) It seems that the addition of liquid tar elevates the reaction threshold to dithranol in hypersensitive patients with psoriasis.
(4) We now present evidence that such a decrease in amounts of P68 could be essential for HIV-1 replication because of the presence of the Tat-responsive sequence (TAR sequence) present in the 5' untranslated region of HIV-1 mRNAs, which activates the P68 kinase.
(5) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(6) Purified tat binds specifically to HIV-1 trans-activation-responsive region (TAR) RNA in gel-retardation, filter-binding, and immunoprecipitation assays.
(7) benj67 asks: How do you continue to justify continued your role in financing the Canadian tar sands, arguably a greater crime than the Libor scandal?
(8) Hansen has been an outspoken critic of tar sands, saying last year "it will be game over for the climate if development of the oil sands isn't stopped".
(9) In contrast, erythroid and myeloid colony growth from the TAR infant's marrow cells was preserved.
(10) Finally, by 6 min of heavy exercise at 8 mph 20% grade, Tar increased 2 degrees C (P less than 0.05) while Tre increased 0.5 degree C (P less than 0.05).
(11) Hydroxylamine mutagenesis was used to alter the tar gene that encodes the transmembrane Tar protein required for chemotaxis.
(12) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
(13) Again, tat protected TAR RNA from RNase A cleavage at both U23 and U31.
(14) Since its 2013 announcement, a key aim of TTIP has been to destroy regulations that prevent high-polluting tar sand crude oil from entering Europe.
(15) TARS-1 and TART-1 but not TARL-2 were transplantable into newborn syngeneic rats and nude mice.
(16) Both the occupational and in particular the therapeutic exposure to coal tar resulted in clear increases in urinary levels of PAH metabolites as compared to unexposed subjects.
(17) During the remission period the patients were advised to use a tar preparation or topical corticosteroids in the event of minor exacerbations.
(18) Biological studies have demonstrated that concentrated extract of tars from combustion of shale oil are carcingenic to the skin of mice.
(19) Beech tar, in a concentration of 5% induced a 19% increase in orthokeratosis.
(20) For the study reported in the present investigation these data have been augmented by estimates of past workplace exposure to total tar (benzene-soluble matter) and to benzo-a-pyrene (BaP).