What's the difference between avoirdupois and pestle?

Avoirdupois


Definition:

  • (n.) Goods sold by weight.
  • (n.) Avoirdupois weight.
  • (n.) Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.

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Pestle


Definition:

  • (n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
  • (n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.
  • (n.) The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.
  • (v. t. & i.) To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
  • (2) No matter how much you enjoy cooking, you definitely won't need a mortar or a pestle.
  • (3) One product failed to release its chlorpheniramine even when ground in a mortar and pestle in HCl solution, but did release drug in H3PO4 solution.
  • (4) The Chelex resin beads were ground in a mortar-pestle to form ground Chelex resin beads.
  • (5) 2 Mash the preserved lemon – flesh and skin – in a pestle and mortar and place in a glass with the lime juice, syrup and mint.
  • (6) Patterns of prosthetic failure included fracture, fraying, and compressive deformation or rotary wear ("motar and pestle") of the silicone radial head; a prosthetic stem fracture was also present.
  • (7) This system allows the bone cartilage on the surface to receive an even impact on the whole section through the piston-like action of the pressure pestle, thus making it possible for the crushed cartilage to be evenly extended in all directions.
  • (8) The only way to prepare high molecular weight rapidly labelled RNA and polysomes was to grind freeze-dried cells together with kieselguhr with a mortar and pestle.
  • (9) Put all the ingredients for the sauce in a mortar, add a quarter-teaspoon of salt, and pound with a pestle to a rough paste.
  • (10) The data show that a rigorous washing routine must be followed to achieve a "clean" mortar and pestle.
  • (11) It was shown that encapsulated cells dried with acetone and ground to a fine powder with a mortar and pestle retain their capsules.
  • (12) The best type of seaweed to use is "aonori" flakes, but most dried seaweed can be ground in a pestle and mortar.
  • (13) Peel and mash the garlic with a pestle and mortar or in a blender with the egg yolk, olive oil, vinegar, mustard and harissa.
  • (14) Three different methods of tissue processing have been assessed: (i) freeze-clamping (-196 degrees C), using grooved, aluminium tongs which produce frozen cylinders of tissue (3 mm diameter) which fit directly into esr tubes; (ii) grinding of freeze-clamped tissue with a porcelain pestle and mortar; (iii) lyophilization of ground, freeze-clamped, tissue.
  • (15) The anvil has a rounded surface enclosed by cylindrical walls, while the pressure pestle functions as a piston within the cylindrical walls.
  • (16) The pestle, rubbing against the gutta-percha inside the amalgam capsule, generates enough frictional heat to blend the gutta-percha and the eucalyptol.
  • (17) 3 Put the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and bash until the pods split.
  • (18) With the microblending technique a mean of 9.4 green plants and 0.4 albino plants were regenerated per plated anther while a mean of only 2.8 green and 0.17 albino plants per anther were regenerated from microspores isolated after pestle maceration of the anthers.
  • (19) Roughly crush the peppercorns and fennel using a pestle and mortar.
  • (20) 2 In a pestle and mortar (or using a large knife) make the garlic into a paste by squashing it into a little salt.

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