(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.
Ulexite
Definition:
(n.) A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.