(n.) A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.
(n.) Same as Benzene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasma samples were extracted three times using ethylacetate and petroleum benzine; this yielded optically clear samples which after evaporation were dissolved in the HPLC solvent and injected onto an RP-C18 column, with ultraviolet detection at 290 nm.
(2) Hexane, a constituent of glue and benzine, is cardiotoxic; marked derangement in myocardial electrolytes and a reduced ventricular fibrillation threshold, indicating an increased myocardial vulnerability to arrhythmias, was noted in the experimental animals.
(3) Examination is performed on 60 workers at the age 30 to 55 years old, in contact with organic solvents: benzine, toluene, benzol, acetone, etc., which are above the maximum admissible concentrations (MAC).
(4) Insecticides or an inhaled agent such as benzine or a glue solvent may cause hypoplastic anemia.
(5) The livers of two groups of rabbits exposed to longer lasting intoxication, one with benzine vapours and the other one with ethyline vapours, were subjected to examination in an electron microscope twice; immediately after the completion of intoxication and then 3 months later.
(6) Leading noxa in the production of high-octane aviation benzine (production "sulfur acidic alkylation", are the sulphur containing organic compounds, hydrogen sulphide, and in some working places--hydrocarbons (benzine and aromatic); in the production of "Ethylene" and "Polypropylene" leading noxae are the saturated hydrocarbons, and the sulphur-containing organic compounds as well as the unsaturated hydrocarbons (ethylene and propylene).
(7) In a prospective randomized study different regimens for skin and umbilical disinfection in newborn infants were tested: daily whole body soap wash (control group), daily whole body soap wash and umbilical cleansing with (i) benzine solution, or (ii) 0.05% chlorhexidine, and daily whole body wash and umbilical cleansing with a 4% chlorhexidine detergent solution (Hibiscrub).
(8) Three types of skin pretreatments (stripping with adhesive tape, scrubbing with Skin-Pure jelly, and cleaning with benzine) were studied in 21 volunteers to determine whether the pretreatments could shorten the application period of transdermal 3% GA MHPh 2Na-10% lidocaine gel.
(9) Thus our group has already deposed several patents and is now working on a complex hemoglobin-dextran benzine tetracarboxylate which appears promising.
(10) The studies covered 21 workers chronically exposed to benzine and tetrachloroethylene.
(11) Examination are carried out on 236 workers from three productions of oil-processing industry, who are exposed to the effect of hydrocarbons--saturated from the ethylene order, saturated (benzine), aromatic and sulphuric compounds--sulphur-containing organic, hydrogen sulphide, sulphur dioxide.
(12) Spread of benzine evaporation has been considered as a possible source as well.
(13) The analysis was undertaken in 572 workers exposed to such solvents as toluene, xylene, cresols and benzine.
(14) A number of observations of subjects with long-term exposure to benzine and benzene homologues are quoted.
(15) Cryostate sections of tissues preliminarily frozen in benzine cooled with liquid nitrogen are recommended for use in a histological for use in a histological and histoenzymological study of the thyroid gland.
Butane
Definition:
(n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
Example Sentences:
(1) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(2) The target concentrations for the butane:pentane mixtures were 4500 and 1000 parts per million (ppm), while 5200 and 1200 ppm were set for the gasoline distillation fraction.
(3) Stopped-flow studies of oxidation of butan-1-ol and propan-2-ol by NAD(+) in the presence of Phenol Red and large concentrations of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase give no evidence for the participation of a group of pK(a) approx.
(4) The purification procedure includes butan-1-ol extraction of yolk lipids, phosphocellulose chromatography of the water-soluble proteins, DEAE-cellulose chromatography at pH 7.4 and hydroxyapatite column chromatography.
(5) The inhibitory activity of 2-phosphono-butane 1,2,4 tricarboxylic acid (PBTA) in the formation of hydroxyapatite (HA) was studied in vitro and in vivo.
(6) Inhibition by organic proteinase inhibitors, including E-64 [L-trans-epoxysuccinyl-leucylamido-(4-guanidino)butane] and activation of the enzyme by 2-mercaptoethanol and dithiothreitol are characteristic of cysteine proteinases.
(7) The bile-pigment chromophores of C-phycoerythrin (phycoerythrobilin) and C-phycocyanin (phycocyanobilin) were cleaved from their respective proteins with boiling methanol or butan-1-ol.
(8) Thiochrome is then extracted with butan-1-ol, which results in fewer co-extracts and greater selectivity.
(9) We investigated the longitudinal dispersion of helium (He), methane, acetylene, butane, sulfur hexafluoride, and octafluorocyclobutane (C4F8) in a clear plastic model of the human bronchial airways.
(10) While with some other heterocyclic and aromatic aldehydes, and under the same conditions, the corresponding analogs of alpha, delta-bis(thiazolidinidione-2,4-N-arylidenehydrazone-4-arylidene-5-yl-3) butane (3) were obtained.
(11) This substance from Brevibacterium ammoniagenes has now been identified as 2-methyl-butan-1,2,3,4,-tetraol-2,4-cyclopyrophosphate, which is accumulated in the cell under certain conditions in concentrations of of about 50 mM.
(12) In all patients there was a reluctance to admit that butane vapour was in use as an intoxicant immediately prior to the injury.
(13) A short-term response immediately after exposure was observed for subjects exposed to butane.
(14) The case of a 17 year old abuser of butane aerosols who developed fulminant hepatic failure after taking a proprietary engine or carburetor cleaner is described.
(15) The volatile substances abused were gas fuels (24%), mainly butane; aerosol sprays (17%); solvents in glues (27%); and other volatile substances, such as cleaning agents (31%).
(16) Diisopropylphosphofluoridate (Dip-F) and phenylmethanesulphonylfluoride (Pms-F) are inhibitors of "serine" proteinases, and L-trans-epoxysuccinylleucylamido-(4-guanido)-butane (E-64) is an inhibitor of "thiol" proteinases.
(17) The therapeutic effect of cis-1, 1-cyclobutane dicarboxylato-(2R)-2-methyl-1,4-butane diamine platinum (II) (NK 121) on 3 human yolk sac tumors of the ovary (YST-1, YST-2 and YST-3), which were transplanted into nude mice, was compared with that of cisplatin (CDDP).
(18) They form a regular series with different degrees of glycosylation (mainly owing to N-acetylneuraminic acid), of charge, of molecular weight, of stability to temperature, to pH and to urea, of minimal requirement for Mg(2+) and of extractability by butan-1-ol.
(19) The structure skeleton consists of four parts, the naphthalene nucleus connected to the 5-membered ring, a 17-membered ring connected to C2, a dimethyl butane diacid extended out from C20, beta-D-3,4-OO' methylenedigitoxose passing through an oxygen bridge O6 and linked to C27 of ansa ring.
(20) L-1-Chloro-4-phenyl-3-tosylamido[1-13C]butan-2-one (Tos-[1-13C]Phe-CH2Cl) and Tos-[1-13C,2H2]Phe-CH2Cl were prepared and used to alkylate delta-chymotrypsin.