What's the difference between atom and diatomic?

Atom


Definition:

  • (n.) An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.
  • (n.) An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.
  • (n.) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.
  • (n.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.
  • (n.) Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.
  • (v. t.) To reduce to atoms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
  • (2) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
  • (3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (4) The bond distances of Cu to Cl(1), Cl(2), N(3) and N(3') atoms are 2.299 (1), 2.267 (1), 1.985 (4) and 1.996 (3) A, respectively.
  • (5) The common atoms of the [3Fe-4S] and [4Fe-4S] cores agree within 0.1 A; the three common cysteinyl S gamma ligand atoms agree within 0.25 A.
  • (6) This result was confirmed by atomic absorption spectroscopy, which indicated a stoicheiometry for copper and manganese of approx.
  • (7) The inter-molecular similarity measure used is the number of atoms in the 3-D common substructure (CS) between the two molecules which are being compared.
  • (8) The risks are determined, mainly by expert committees, from the steadily growing information on exposed human populations, especially the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945.
  • (9) All N and O atoms except N(3) and O(4') participate in a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding system.
  • (10) This suggestion is supported by EPR studies, which show that the iron atoms in Fe(III)L-globin are in two low electronic states.
  • (11) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
  • (12) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
  • (13) Each repeat unit contains thirty amino acids and is thought to bind a zinc atom using two cysteines and two histidines as ligands.
  • (14) NADP+ bound at the C8 atom in the adenine moiety proved to be the most efficient ligand whereas that bound at the C3 atom of the ribose moiety was relatively inefficient.
  • (15) This structure is further characterized by approaches of both the carbonyl and the furan O atoms to ring H atoms with separations which are slightly less than the sum of the relevant van der Waals radii.
  • (16) The magnitude of improvement achieved is dependent upon field size, SSD, the atomic number of the foil material, and foil thickness.
  • (17) For the liver enzyme, the logarithm of the inhibition constant was linearly related to the number of carbon atoms in the saturated fatty acids whereas the muscle enzyme, which was generally more strongly inhibited, showed a nonlinear dependence.
  • (18) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
  • (19) It was hypothesized that the observed activity variation of the paracetamol analogues was based on the relative abilities of these compounds to undergo H atom loss at the phenolic oxygen, and on the relative stabilities of the resulting free-radical species.
  • (20) The resulting family of structures has a mean backbone rmsd of 0.63 A (N, C alpha, C', O atoms), excluding the segments containing residues 45-59 and 84-88.

Diatomic


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing two atoms.
  • (a.) Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cytoplasmic and chloroplast ribosomes from the marine diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis were isolated and characterized.
  • (2) The concentration of acetate in the interstitial water fell from about 100 microM (immediately after sedimentation of the spring diatom bloom) to a relatively constant value of about 20 microM in late summer, during which acetate utilization appeared to be balanced by production.
  • (3) The affinity of the diatom for glucose was greater than that shown by the bacterium, but the Km for glucose transport, 1.5x10-5M was too high to allow effective removal of glucose at in situ concentrations.
  • (4) We have cloned and sequenced a 5200 base restriction fragment and an overlapping 3100 base fragment of the large single copy region of the chloroplast genome of the diatom Odontella sinensis, which hybridized to several ATPase gene probes.
  • (5) The material consisted of 285 successive drownings, which were subject to autopsy at the Helsinki University Department of Forensic Medicine between 1978 and 1986 and for whom diatom analysis was carried out.
  • (6) Substituting size-fractionated silica particles for diatoms (the fossilized cell walls of unicellular algae) allowed for the purification of microgram amounts of genomic DNA, plasmid DNA, and rRNA from cell-rich sources, as exemplified for pathogenic gram-negative bacteria.
  • (7) In diatom and yeast spindles, elongation of the spindle in anaphase (anaphase B) may be explained by microtubule assembly at polar microtubule ends in the spindle mid-zone and sliding of the antiparallel microtubules from the opposite poles.
  • (8) Cells of the diatom Cyclotella meneghiniana were exposed in a closed system to 0.245 ppm 1,2,3-trichlorobenzene.
  • (9) Cells of the diatom Cyclotella meneghiniana were exposed in a closed system to 0.245 ppm 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene.
  • (10) Extracted diatom DNA separates into two bands in CsCl-Hoechst 33258 dye gradients.
  • (11) Quinones constituting the electron transfer systems in a marine unicellular diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, were isolated and identified chromatographically.
  • (12) A new sulfonolipid has been isolated from a non-photosynthetic diatom, Nitzschia alba, by thin-layer and column chromatography on silicic acid, and characterized by 35S-labeling, mobility on thin-layer chromatography, infrared and NMR spectroscopy and products of hydrolysis, as a ceramide sulfonic acid (N-acyl sphingosine-1-sulfonic acid).
  • (13) Among eukaryotes, red algae emerged first; and, later, thraustochytrids (a Proctista group), ascomycetes (yeast), green plants (green algae and land plants), "yellow algae" (brown algae, diatoms, and chrysophyte algae), basidiomycetes (mushrooms and rusts), slime- and water molds, various protozoans, and animals emerged, approximately in that order.
  • (14) The spindle of the colonial diatom Fragilaria contains two distinct sets of spindle microtubules (MTs): (a) MTs comprising the central spindle, which is composed of two half-spindles interdigitated to form a region of "overlap"; (b) MTs which radiate laterally from the poles.
  • (15) The conformation of berchemolide was calculated by MNDO (modified neglect of diatomic overlap).
  • (16) Usually algal populations change from a dominance of diatoms and green algae to dominance by blue-green algae.
  • (17) But it seems to have stuck.” The following year, Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer – an American diatom specialist who had been using the term informally since the 1980s – jointly published an article proposing that the Anthropocene should be considered a new Earth epoch, on the grounds that “mankind will remain a major geological force for many millennia, maybe millions of years to come”.
  • (18) The particles are surfaces for the attachment of diatoms and hydroids.
  • (19) Mitotic spindles isolated from the diatom Stephanopyxis turris consist of two half-spindles of closely interdigitating microtubules that slide relative to one another in the presence of ATP, reinitiating spindle elongation (anaphase B) in vitro.
  • (20) We describe here a simple procedure for isolating diatom spindles which are capable of anaphase spindle elongation in vitro.

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