(n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both series were prepared by incorporating a silanated barium borosilicate filler into a visible-light-activated polyphenylene polymethacrylate resin matrix.
(2) Results of these studies are presented in this article and are discussed in terms of the interactions between borosilicate glasses and aqueous solutions.
(3) The generator column is a borosilicate glass tube with 30 microns fused glass frit containing 0.75 ml AG1X8 anion exchange resin.
(4) Medium Eagle MEM with the addition of allogeneic serum and borosilicate glass were used.
(5) As has been observed in the past, fibrinogen adsorption peaked at intermediate plasma concentrations on both Pyrex and borosilicate glass (the so-called Vroman effect), but almost twice as much fibrinogen adsorbed to glass when TRIS was used to dilute the plasma instead of CPBSz.
(6) Blood lead, erythrocyte protoporphyrin, and hemoglobin levels were measured for family members of workers exposed to lead borosilicate dust in a capacitor and resistor plant in Colorado.
(7) It was observed that borosilicate glass prefilters have a high absorptive capacity for isolated rat-liver mitochondria and that this binding does not need any kind of chemical procedure.
(8) The elements are extracted with concentrated nitric acid in borosilicate glass tubes at 90 degrees C for 1 h, and determined by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy.
(9) Borosilicate glass (G) and commercial poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMM) surfaces were examined at pH 7, monovalent ionic strength 0.14 and 22 degrees C. Thrombin concentrations ranged from 6 X 10(-9) to 5.2 X 10(-8)M. Decreases in thrombin concentration in 10 ml vessles were determined by clotting time assay.
(10) PCV determinations were made on five patient blood samples using eight tubes of varying diameters, four made of soda-lime glass and four made of borosilicate glass.
(11) Gel portions containing protein stained with Ponceau S are excised and transferred to borosilicate glass digestion tubes containing 0.9 ml of 1 mM NaOH or 5 mM Na2HPO4.
(12) A 0.32 mm id X 30 m fused silica column and a 0.75 mm id X 30 m borosilicate glass column (both with OV-1 bonded phase) are investigated.
(13) There was no sorption to soda glass tubes, borosilicate glass volumetric flasks or soda glass microlitre syringes but minor sorption to polypropylene syringes, polypropylene pipette tips and rubber bottle stoppers after 240 min contact.
(14) The surface topography of USP Type I borosilicate glass containers was viewed after exposure to "sulfur," ammonium bifluoride, and sulfuric acid treatments.
(15) Gel filtration high performance liquid chromatography using a Borosil TSK 400 column shows that the tetrameric state of the native enzyme is not affected by the presence of the effectors.
(16) The uptake or adsorption of radioisotopically labeled oleic acid and cholic acid by plastic tubing of Tygon, Teflon, and polyethylene, and Pyrex, and borosilicate glass, and steel was measured.
(17) Extended-tip shunting was avoided by fabricating Na+ ion-selective microelectrodes from aluminosilicate rather than borosilicate glass.
(18) Borosilicate surface was rated at an intermediate level, but it did not provide good matrix for coating due to its poor reproducibility.
(19) In contrast, hydrolysis in borosilicate glass vials is useless, since nanomoles of sulfate added cannot be recovered adequately.
(20) This article discusses the results of studies that utilized Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA), a surface analytical technique, in conjunction with Ar+ ion milling, a method of depth profiling, to examine some borosilicate glass containers.
Strass
Definition:
(n.) A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Paul Sullivan Bernauer Strasse Berlin Wall Memorial: this 1.4km stretch of street pays tribute to the victims of the wall and helps visitors understand how lives were lived on either side.
(2) The apartment block at No 46 Kopenhagener Strasse, Berlin.
(3) From 1977 to 1983, 49 patients with carcinoma of the hypopharynx were treated, including follow-up, at the ENT clinic of the Zentralkrankenhaus St. Jürgen Strasse in Bremen.
(4) The locals call it "Mesut's ape-cage", the fenced-off pitch on Olga Strasse in Gelsenkirchen where the German midfielder Mesut Ozil learned to kick a football.
(5) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(6) Kopenhagener Strasse is a quiet street in the Prenzlauer Berg district, just a few metres east of where the wall used to run.
(7) It’s an overcast morning when I start my 155km walk along the Berlin Wall Trail, the Mauerweg, and the granite skies make the scarred, concrete remnants of the Wall along Bernauer Strasse look even more sinister than usual.
(8) While the latter tend to cluster around the trail’s best-known sections – Checkpoint Charlie, the East Side Gallery, Bernauer Strasse – there are many more fascinating stories awaiting anyone who follows its zigzagging course through the centre.
(9) At the crossroads where it intersects with Afrikanische Strasse, a tiny plaque bearing the name of the new honouree was attached to the street sign.
(10) Once you get past Sarotte’s Brokaw opening, it turns out she has produced a skilful, scrupulously documented, nuanced reconstruction of how a series of mistakes by East German leaders and officials – and individual decisions made by border post commanders, such as Harald Jäger , on duty that night at the Bornholmer Strasse crossing – turned what was meant to be a carefully managed process of controlled opening (“journeys must be applied for”) into the world’s most celebrated festival of popular liberation.
(11) The cool blue tunnel of Afrikanische Strasse U-Bahn station is embellished with enormous colour photographs: a grinning giraffe; a herd of zebras on the savannah; a pair of meerkats.
(12) These days, the houses on Kopenhagener Strasse are still not too far from meeting that ideal.
(13) Officers said the lorry came from the direction of Budapester Strasse, over the pavement, before coming to a halt by a Christmas tree in front of the church.
(14) Buildings on the main thoroughfare, Karl-Heine-Strasse – it’s named after the 19th-century industrialist who put the district on the map – have almost all been renovated, but without losing their sense of history.
(15) At least one of the local people who have registered with Leila – a little shop on Fehrbelliner Strasse, north-east of the city centre – seems to be continually fixing shelves or hanging pictures.
(16) At 46 Kopenhagener Strasse, such measures are likely to come too late at any rate.
(17) On the Bornholmer Strasse, at the place the wall first fell on 9 November 1989, I pause to look at a photo exhibition depicting scenes from that night.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A plaque for Tunnel 57 at the Bernauer Strasse memorial.
(19) Shoes line a tiny room on Weiner Strasse leading into the Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque.
(20) 1,500 young and old Berliners gathered on the Strasse des 17.