(n.) A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
(n.) A blowgun; a blowtube.
Example Sentences:
(1) An indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building up an arsenal of spears, blowpipes, machetes and guns to fend off an expected intrusion by the army and a state-run oil company.
(2) The people still hunt and fish for their food in the way they always have, but sometimes use guns instead of blowpipes and have a generator that comes on at 8pm and then house music starts pumping at one end of the village.
(3) The animals were darted using a blowpipe or a CO2 gun.
(4) The city authorities carried out their own spay-and-neuter plan in one township late last year, sending municipal workers out with blowpipes loaded with anaesthetic.
(5) Before the expected confrontation,the shaman, Patricio Jipa said people were making blowpipes and spears, trying to borrow guns and preparing to use sticks stones and any other weapons they could lay their hands on.
(6) We used individual cage traps, a group trap, a blowpipe and an air-pressure rifle.
(7) The Tagaeri and the Taromenane – who have fought off illegal loggers and Catholic missionaries with spears and blowpipes to maintain their isolated, nomadic existence – are now at risk from the construction of roads and drilling wells as petroleum firms carve up the Yasuni national park.
(8) Photograph: Aung Naing Soe ‘We just want killing’ In her spacious office in the downtown YCDC building, Dr Hla May Oo, assistant head of the veterinary and slaughterhouse department, pulls a black plastic blowpipe out of a cardboard box and puffs into the tube.
(9) The Kichwa indigenous group have moved from spears and blowpipes to guns and eco-tourism within three generations.
(10) The Kichwa tribe on Sani Isla, who were using blowpipes two generations ago, said they are ready to fight to the death to protect their territory, which covers 70,000 hectares of pristine rainforest.
Glassware
Definition:
(n.) Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) This modified assay system obviates the need to sterilize culture medium and glassware.
(2) In order to rationalize work and to reduce the consumption of laboratory glassware a reduction micromethod with the bacterial stain Streptococcus thermophilus has been modified; the method is used to detect inhibitory substances in genuine, pausteurized and dried milk, and it is performed on a serological plate made from organic glass.
(3) A modified Shore procedure for large scale assays in human biopsies was developed including reference luminescence values for all reagents, cleaning material and glassware, reduction of OPD concentration to 0.05%, purification of n-heptan, omission of centrifugation steps in the extraction procedure and use of 2 ml 1 M HClO4 in the homogenization step to prevent losses of histamine due to adherence to the mechanical homogenizer.
(4) These factors include pH readjustment to 7.40 after serum storage; choice of buffers for dialysis; the effect of phosphate buffer ionic strength; temperature of storage for serum samples; the use of untreated versus silanized glassware for storage; and age of serum.
(5) A simple procedure for culturing mouse embryos during early organogenetic stages is described in this report that will be of value to teratologists; it avoids the requirements of special glassware and equipment by using ordinary capped test tubes which are rotated tomaintain and efficient nutritional and gaseous evnironment.
(6) The following conditions adversely affect the reproducibility of the test: pollution of laboratory atmosphere and glassware by NH3-containing detergents; smoking by patient or analyst; delay, turbulence, or use of heparin lock in venipuncture; delay or warming of plasma above degrees C before mixing it with resin; and delay in colorimetric analysis of resin eluate.
(7) After pasteurization, however, the product became contaminated with a secondary Enterococcus infection due to the improperly cleaned glassware and equipment.
(8) Replacement of Soxhlet extraction with the sonication technique results in reduced sample preparation time, decreased volumes of solvents and sample, and substitution of common laboratory glassware in place of fragile, expensive Soxhlet glassware.
(9) Much of what you’re paying for at this level isn’t just what you’re putting down your neck, but service and ambience – the perfection of glittering glassware, exquisite presentation, the ministrations of the senior sommelier.
(10) With new designs – the glassware is still for sale today – the pair dropped clocks and plates which were part of their range to focus solely on the kitchen at around the same time as Richard had a eureka moment in New York.
(11) The major technical difficulties in meeting this apparently simple proposition are: establishing adequately sensitive radioimmunoassays; avoidance of adhesion to ultrafilters and glassware; removal from the ultrafilters of compounds which would cross-react or interfere in the radioimmunoassays; and avoidance of co-filtration of thyroid hormone binding proteins in serum, which would obviously imply spurious data.
(12) This upper limit appears to be set by the inability to completely eliminate catalytic metal contamination of solutions and glassware.
(13) Poor precision in the first 2 studies was caused by a number of factors, including use of contaminated glassware, improperly maintained instruments, and impure reagents as standards.
(14) The purified radioligands showed similar chemical properties (stability to storage, efficient phase separation with dextran-coated charcoal, low adsorption to glassware).
(15) Unsurprisingly, interviewees often found meaning in heirlooms: books engraved with family names, and antiques and glassware from their grandparents.
(16) On the contrary, in the cells adhered to the substratum of glassware, no degeneration and no inhibitory effect were observed.
(17) Results showed that either of the 2 subdued light conditions, yellow or golden fluorescent light, is suitable in vitamin B6 assays and that low actinic glassware is suitable for storing sample solutions.
(18) A brief overview of the field of analytical artifacts is provided, with examples of solvent impurities, stabilizers, polymer additives, and problems relating to Teflon, glassware, and laboratory contaminants.
(19) As chairman of the fine china and glassware firm, O'Reilly had invested €400m over the past five years along with his brother-in-law, Peter Goulandris, and the private equity fund Lazard Alternative Investments.
(20) BAL was performed in all subjects, 3 x 60 ml aliquots of buffered saline being introduced into a segment of the middle lobe and immediately aspirated into siliconized glassware at 4 degrees C. After filtration, cells were counted, and the cell pellet resuspended in medium 199.