(n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.
Example Sentences:
(1) The compound caused extensive clumping, of cells, which appeared not to be related to the ability of boronates to esterify to diols.
(2) Examples are p-boronophenylalanine or boronated porphyrius.
(3) Fractions from the boronate gel column or aliquots of NaIO4-treated cell extract are quantitated directly by the RIA.
(4) The second part of the paper describes a case where neodynium-iron-boron magnets were used to assist eruption of an unerupted, vertically impacted upper right canine.
(5) A neodymium iron boron magnet is attached to the unerupted tooth, and a second, larger magnet is incorporated in a removable appliance.
(6) The various boron compounds being investigated for NCT are evaluated on the basis of necessary minimum boron content in tumor.
(7) N-Allylation of a trimethoxybenzazepine followed by cleavage of the methyl ethers with boron tribromide was the preferred method.
(8) Because boronated phenylalanine has been demonstrated to be preferentially taken up by melanoma cells through the biosynthetic pathway for melanin, there is special interest in a trial of boron neutron capture therapy for metastatic melanoma in brain.
(9) After separation by thin-layer chromatography, the bands of the lipid classes studied were scraped off, transmethylated according to the boron trifluoride-methanol procedure, and the fatty acid methyl esters were extracted and analysed.
(10) However, at 1000 and 2000 ppm boron, male fertility was significantly reduced.
(11) A parameter of major importance is the minimum concentration of boron needed in tumor in order to produce improved results in cancer therapy.
(12) Boron-11 spectral intensities decreased in the living rat over a 25-h period.
(13) In some areas, wastewater is used for irrigation and crops grown under these conditions are generally confined to those relatively insensitive to boron toxicity.
(14) These data indicate that broilers grown on boric acid-treated litter do not consume enough boric acid to cause elevated boron levels in tissues.
(15) In the course of re-assessment of boron-neutron capture therapy (BNCT) for malignant brain tumors, fractionation of neutron irradiation has been proposed.
(16) Six-day exposures of the differentiated cells to a 1-mM dose of aluminum or boron yielded increases in tau protein immunoreactivity to the monoclonal antibodies Tau-1 and Alz-50.
(17) Recovery of the serine and threonine derivatives was improved by substituting boron trifluoride-diethyl etherate for trifluoroacetic acid in the thiazolinone cleavage reactions.
(18) Boron levels in the brain dropped about 6%-8% and were more diffusely distributed on the images obtained 30 minutes after BSH infusion.
(19) The boron derivatives also caused L-1210 DNA strand scission.
(20) Glycosylation was estimated using boronate affinity chromatography with the myosin dissolved in a pyrophosphate buffer, the glycosylated myosin being displaced with sorbitol.
Moron
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
(2) Western-ligand blot procedure using the same labelled hormone identified at least three major forms of IGF-BPs in the plasma of all four teleost species investigated: coho salmon, striped bass (Morone saxatilis), tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), and longjawed mudsucker (Gillichthys mirabilis).
(3) Recently, though, the black-tops have cut back or abandoned their analysis, having come to the conclusion that what began as an interesting psychological project has become a forum where morons audition for fleeting celebrity.
(4) Mandhakini Iyengar 06 February 2014 11:52am Why are all the higher officials morons?
(5) It wasn’t yet purely about moronic ugliness, uniformity and gobbing.
(6) The effects of acute and long-term changes in temperature upon catalytic and calcium regulatory function of red (slow oxidative) and white (fast glycolytic) muscle from striped bass (Morone saxatilis) were determined.
(7) While in a separate exchange on Facebook, of which the Daily Mail has photographs, Edoardo called another fan a “moron” during a heated exchange and also used another derogatory term.
(8) Between 1972 and 1975 (4 years), the Hospital de Ginecoobstetricia "Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto" of the I.M.S.S.
(9) 28% of the cases are psychotics, of whom 25,8% are chronic psychotics (14,8% schizophrenics; 7,7%, paranoiacs); 40,5% of the cases are psychopaths suffering from psychic imbalance; and finally, 16,4% of the cases are morons (debiles).
(10) He also made moronic statements like: "Books are central to the library experience" (to which I responded in a column: "This is like saying that death is central to the crematorium experience.").
(11) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.
(12) You've written a book called The Moronic Inferno .")
(13) Secondly, there are, indeed, many of these morons here.
(14) "I've read enough of his exploits to know you're a complete moron who will get everything wrong, and besides, the bits where Holmes doesn't feature are usually fairly dull."
(15) Young striped bass (Morone saxatilis) with uninflated gas bladders were less sensitive to selenate and more sensitive to selenite exposure than normally developing striped bass in 96-hour acute toxicity tests.
(16) But friends said he would never use the words morons or plebs.
(17) Bill Kristol thinks Walker’s showing “ basic talent, hard work and real improvement .” And Bill Kristol has only run Dan Quayle’s office, anointed Sarah Palin and been wrong about every single step of the Middle East at every point of the timeline like a Shrödinger’s Cat exercise in being a moron.
(18) Do you actually want to be governed by humourless, authoritarian morons?
(19) He sees his job unequivocally as the defence of high culture: no negotiations with the moronic inferno.
(20) Do not use our music or my voice for your 1) September 9, 2015 Mike Mills (@m_millsey) ...moronic charade of a campaign."