What's the difference between avoirdupois and pulverize?

Avoirdupois


Definition:

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

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Pulverize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.
  • (v. i.) To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as, the stone pulverizes easily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The process of cellular fusion induced by Sendai virus in Chinese hamster cells (Don line) afforded us the opportunity to study nuclear envelope formation around metaphase sets in the presence of interphase nuclei, when chromosome pulverization failed to occur in such multinucleate cells.
  • (2) The longer the cells were incubated with Colcemid before fusion, the higher was the number of cells with telophase-like nuclei and the lower the percentage of cells with pulverizations.
  • (3) 30% of the metaphase cells from treated females and fetuses showed strongly contracted chromosomes and reduced number os "pulverized" chromosomes.
  • (4) These observations further substantiate our previously advanced hypothesis regarding the essential role played by substances present in a mitotic cell in the induction of chromosome pulverization and nuclear membrane dissolution.
  • (5) The stool samples are dried, pulverized, and then investigated.
  • (6) On the contralateral side, the demineralized bone was reimplanted without pulverization, but with bone marrow.
  • (7) Therefore, the utmost care should be taken in the production and handling of pulverized enzymes and their inhalation should be avoided.
  • (8) ARU chief executive Bill Pulver has announced a change to allow a few, much-capped players based offshore to be selected for Australia.
  • (9) After UV treatment, pulverization of the chromosomes occurred and larger nuclear fragments which might be products of an abnormally proceeding mitosis with chromatin confluence were observed.
  • (10) The trace photodegradation product in pulverized tablets is determined along with nifedipine by the same procedure.
  • (11) Cells were cultured for varying periods in the presence and absence of nonpolymerized methacrylate (one to two-micrometer spherules), pulverized polymerized material, or culture chambers that were pre-coated with polymerized cement.
  • (12) In addition to chromosomal breaks, gaps and pulverization, three kinds of cytogenetic damage (double minutes, polyploidy and endoreduplication) not yet reported following productive infection with HSV or other animal viruses were frequently observed.
  • (13) Pulverized calcium oxalate renal stones were extracted with 0.05 M EDTA, pH 8.0; nephrocalcin eluted in five peaks using DEAE-cellulose column chromatography, and each peak was further resolved by Sephacryl S-200 column chromatography.
  • (14) Analyses with the use of cell synchronization and autoradiography revealed that chromosome aberrations were induced only in the cells which synthesized DNA during incubation at 39 degrees C. We classified the chromosome aberrations into five types: gap or break type; exchange type; pulverization type; complex type; and ring type.
  • (15) All birds on one of the premises ( a total of 14, 000) were vaccinated when 5 days old with a liquid vaccine of strain B1 (one fourth dose per bird) using the Dutch pulverizing apparatus Flox-10 -- group I.
  • (16) Shock wave generation by spark gap, electromagnetic, piezoelectric and microexplosive techniques are related to their peak energy, frequency, and total energy capabilities which impacts on both anesthesia needs and the length and number of treatment sessions required to pulverize calculi.
  • (17) Photo-irradiation of G2 or early prophase chromatin induced chromosome pulverization.
  • (18) After pulverization the dusts contained 98.1% and 99.6% respirable particles, and 6.5% and 6.0% of SiO2, respectively, determined with the Polezhajev method.
  • (19) The effect of pulverized plastic and glass-ceramic materials (methylmetacrylate, MNA), which are used as implantation materials in surgical medicine, on cell growth, DNA synthesis rate (adjudged by incorporation of 3H-thymidine into DNA), glucose consumption and lactate production (glycolytic rate) was studied in asynchronous monolayer cultures of rather fast proliferating Ehrlich ascites tumor cells and rather slowly proliferating diploid human fibroblasts.
  • (20) One patient with total stone pulverization, become jaundiced 1 month after ECSWL and a gallbladder carcinoma was found at surgery.