(n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.
(n.) An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Auger spectroscopy and ion sputtering technique have shown that in surface of new archs oxygen and carbon are present up to about 300 A depth.
(2) The problem of determining RBE values for Auger emitters incorporated into proliferating mammalian cells is examined.
(3) This finding emphasizes the ability of low-energy Auger electrons to damage radiosensitive targets of cells through localized irradiation.
(4) Using an instrument equipped with two electron guns, an electron analyzer, and a Si(Li) diode detector, we developed microanalytical techniques based on inner-shell electron excitations by incident electrons and X-rays, that is, electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the reflection mode; electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and X-ray appearance potential spectroscopy (XAPS); electron-induced Auger electron spectroscopy (e-AES); X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS); X-ray induced AES (XAES), X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF), and scanning X-ray radiography (SXR).
(5) It was hypothesized that the enhanced IUdR radiosensitization for 60 keV photons was a result of a larger production of Auger electron cascades from the filling of K-shell vacancies in the iodine atoms, which have a K-shell binding energy of 33.2 keV.
(6) Radiation spectra for radionuclides currently provided by the MIRD Committee and ICRP do not include the very low-energy N- and O-shell Auger electrons.
(7) We conclude that Auger electrons produced following photoelectric absorption of X rays by the K-shell of bromine contribute minimally to observed BUdR cellular radiosensitization.
(8) Among newer procedures are laser and auger angioplasty, catheter atherectomy and stents.
(9) Auger electron spectroscopy results indicate residual iodine was either left on the surface or implanted beneath the surface during iodine ion milling.
(10) Pantano, and L. L. Hench, "Auger spectroscopic analysis of bioglass corrosion films," J.
(11) The radiations studied were 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 MeV monoenergetic electrons and 32P, 67Cu, 90Y, 105Rh, 131I, 153Sm, 186Re, and 188Re beta particles and conversion and Auger electrons.
(12) However, gadolinium-157 (157Gd) n-gamma reaction is also accompanied by some internal conversion and, by implication, Auger electron emission.
(13) Most of the radionuclides used in nuclear medicine emit low energy Auger electrons following radioactive decay.
(14) It may be concluded that a major part of the enhancement was caused by inner-shell photoionization, followed by an Auger cascade of the bromine in the DNA.
(15) In 1986, O'Hara and Pearson described a method of ankle arthrodesis using an auger.
(16) These findings may have implications in the design of radiopharmaceuticals for both diagnosis (localize Auger emitter in cytoplasm of cell) and therapy (localize Auger emitter in cell nucleus).
(17) However the Auger enhancement decreased sharply under "vacuum" condition as the water content was zero.
(18) It has also been used to calculate the intensity factors of pure bulk samples and the backscattering correction factor in Auger electron spectroscopy.
(19) The present understanding provides a scientific basis toward estimation of risk associated with Auger emitters used in diagnosis, and suggests potential applications to therapy.
(20) This method is used to investigate the efficiency of double strand break production by other Auger sources which have potential value for therapy.
Mauger
Definition:
(prep.) Alt. of Maugre
Example Sentences:
(1) Annie Mauger, chief executive of the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals says: “There are a lot of different groups within a community who would not go into a pub and you have to think about children and people of different faiths, who would find going into a place serving alcohol unacceptable.The kind of space a library occupies is accessible to everybody.
(2) Cases of reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome involving the hip (Lequesne and Mauger 1982) and the knee (Doury et al.
(3) "I am delighted," said chief executive Annie Mauger.
(4) This is on top of the £462m we have had to save so far.” Annie Mauger, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, expressed “deep concern”.
(5) In the low [Ca2+]i cells, both the apparent Km and the apparent Vmax of the Ca2+ influx are increased as compared to the controls, indicating that the properties of the channels activated by lowering [Ca2+]i are apparently identical to those initiated by the hormones (Mauger, J.-P., Poggioli, J., Guesdon, F., and Claret, M. (1984) Biochem.