(a.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
(v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
Example Sentences:
(1) The transient was characterized by bleaching in the 550-585-nm regions within 6 ps and recovery in approximately 20 ps.
(2) All recombinants were found to be photochemically active, in that optical bleaching produced a temperature- and lipid chain-length-dependent mixture of species absorbing at 480 and 380 nm.
(3) Lesions in either the ventral subiculum or the anterolateral part of the amygdalohippocampal area caused bleaching in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus.
(4) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(5) A simple method for distinction between RNA- and DNA-containing structures in aldehyde- and osmiumtextroxide-fixed electron microscopic autoradiographs (or ordinary thin sections) is described: the developer and the acetic acid used for processing autoradiographs extract selectively uranium acetate from DNA containing-structures which, after staining with lead citrate, leads to a characteristically 'bleached' appearance of the DNA.
(6) Sulphite bleached the flavin of cellobiose oxidase, but gave no reaction with the 31 kDa haem protein, suggesting an absence of flavin.
(7) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
(8) We have tried to discover whether bleaching raises the threshold by desensitizing the rods, or (like backgrounds) by attenuating their signals.
(9) Additionally, reconstitution of a distinct absorption band, centered around 540 nm, was achieved by addition of exogenous 9-cis-retinal to bleached, isolated eyespot apparatuses.
(10) But the Guardian can now reveal Australia will also need to report on how it is dealing with the current bleaching, where almost a quarter of the coral on the reef has been killed.
(11) Measurements were made of the time course and amplitude of the change in real part of admittance, DeltaG, of a suspension of frog rod outer segments, following a flash of light bleaching about 1% of the rhodopsin content of the rods.
(12) Concentration gradients of metarhodopsin along the lengths of microvilli were produced by local bleaches, accomplished by irradiation with small spots of orange light at pH 9 in the presence of glutaraldehyde or formaldehyde.
(13) Bleaching a few per cent of the rhodopsin molecules of a rod suspension induces a 60% decrease achieved in less than 12 sec.
(14) Consequently, the rate of the bleaching is strongly dependent on the permeability of the thylakoid to the available anion.
(15) Incidentally, it’s the algae that give the coral its colour; and so when it’s ejected, the coral takes on a ghostly white hue, giving rise to the term “bleaching”.
(16) A suggested method for internal bleaching and restoring the access cavity is presented.
(17) Rod outer segment membranes and reassociated stripped disc membrane samples containing divalent cations showed similar phosphodiesterase activities in response to low fractional rhodopsin bleaches (e.g.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
(19) The permethylated rhodopsin thus formed is active toward bleaching, regeneration with 11-cis-retinal, and the activation of the GTPase (G protein) when photolyzed.
(20) When the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases were reacted with moderate excesses of acyl-CoA substrates in D2O in the absence of an electron acceptor, maximum bleaching of the FAD absorbance and the appearance of the long wavelength absorbance, attributed to a charge transfer complex, were observed.
Kier
Definition:
(n.) A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kier and Machar have presided over a conflict that has displaced more than two million people.
(2) Sweet taste receptor models that have been published are mainly based on the original Shallenberger and Acree model of the glucophores AH-B with contributions from Kier (AH-B-X).
(3) Two graph theoretical approaches (the distance method of Wiener and the connectivity index method of Randic, Kier, and Hall) and an approach utilizing ad hoc molecular descriptors were employed.
(4) We are not talking about current spending that the chancellor will decide on come the budget.” More boasts about HS2's benefits – but costs keep going off the rails Read more Carillion’s joint venture with French construction company Eiffage and UK firm Kier has won two contracts worth £1.4bn to design and build the North Portal Chiltern tunnels to Brackley and the Brackley to Long Itchington Wood Green tunnel South Portal.
(5) The companies – Balfour Beatty , Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK and Vinci – said: "The scheme is intended to make it as simple as possible for any worker with a legitimate claim to access compensation."
(6) Correlations between Hansch's hydrophobic parameter (pi) and Kier and Hall's topological index (1 chi) allowed pi to be substituted by 1 chi in the structure-activity correlations of the carcinogenicity data of the nitrosamines studied.
(7) When people applied for work on building sites, senior employees at Carillion, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Kier, Costain, McAlpine and more than 30 other companies would fax their names to the Consulting Association, where Kerr would check his files to see if they matched.
(8) The activity of these renin inhibitors was found to be significantly correlated with Kier's first-order valence molecular connectivity index (1 chi v) and with the molecular weight (MW) of the molecules.
(9) Formerly Group chief executive Officer Kier Group plc.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When people applied for work on building sites, employees at Carillion, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Kier, Costain, McAlpine and more than 30 other companies would fax their names to the Consulting Association, where Kerr would check his files to see if they matched.
(11) Satisfactory regression models for solubility were obtained with both the Randic-Kier-Hall approach and the ad hoc descriptors approach.
(12) The director of public prosecutions, Kier Starmer QC, issued a statement on Savile's offending.