(n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.
(n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infectivity of linear lambdaDNA molecules is proved to be about a hundred times higher in calcinated E. coli K12 (lambai434) than in E. coli K12(lambda-): the levels of transfection were 1-3-10(7) and 1-2-10(5) infective centers per 1 mug DNA, respectively.
(2) The lithium content of the tissues was assayed by flame spectrophotometry of calcinated biopsy material taken from the epidermis, the dermis and the subcutaneous adipose tissue from 4 of our 5 cases.
(3) For some metals the analysis can be directly achieved by means of atomisation of the biological liquid in a flame or in a graphite furnace; for other metals it is necessary a treatment of the sample to separate the metal from the rest of the matrix, which can be: calcination, microcalcination, mining.
(4) The results obtained from the ethanol-treated rats were similar to those obtained in experiments on control rats fed on diets not containing calcinated bone meal.
(5) In those working with calcined clay, there was an increased prevalence of abnormality of the FEV1, but not the FVC, when compared to both wet and dry processors and which could not be explained by either cigarette smoking or the presence of pneumoconiosis.
(6) Dehydration conditions similar to those employed in wet calcination of gypsum appeared to be produced under atmospheric pressure when NaCl was present.
(7) He observed that metals gain weight during their calcination (oxidation) and concluded that air is taken up during this process.
(8) The magnitude of abnormality in the calcined clay workers was, however, unlikely to lead to disabling impairment.
(9) The results reveal that arsenic contents in pig native copper are about 10 times of those in the calcination samples.
(10) TCP capsules with an outer diameter of 0.8 cm and an inner diameter of 0.4 cm were prepared by compressing calcined materials in a cylindrical dye at a compression load of 700 Kg.
(11) Administration of vitamin D in a dose of 400 IU and increase of calcium consumption up to 110-120 mg and of phosphorus to 45-57 mg per kg body weight at the expense of calcinated cottage introduction into the diet provide for the optimal levels of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol and calcium in the blood of these children.
(12) In Experiment 2, urinary Mg excretion on d 4 and 5 of the collection was lower for sheep fed the brine oxide than for those fed sulfate or oxide from calcined magnesite.
(13) The most toxic material tested was BeSO4, followed by BeO calcined at 500 degrees C, then BeO calcined at 1000 degrees C. An in vitro dissolution technique was used to measure the relative solubility of the BeO particles.
(14) In CT, diagnosis was based on the detection of a formation with a capsule containing calcinates and air masses.
(15) Bodies found in acts of war or natural disasters are sometimes impossible to identify for police or legal purposes, notably because of calcination or putrefaction.
(16) Therefore, calcining the two radionuclides together in an aerosol altered the kinetics of both following inhalation in rats, but most dramatically for 244Cm.
(17) Hereby the tissue calcination will be defined from the real ossifications and the direct exogene shades.
(18) Fetuses were fully calcinated and ash weight and calcium content determined.
(19) Although each study suffers from some deficiencies, as is common in such retrospective studies, the findings in concert strongly indicate that nickel emitted from the calcining and sintering operations is a potent carcinogen resulting in nasal and pulmonary cancers.
(20) The present paper reports the determination of Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn and As in complex prescription decoctions of ochre and calcined ochre by atomic absorption spectroscopy.
Thermal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal unit; thermal waters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between 25 and 40 degrees C, the thermal dependencies of VR and f were approximately constant (Q10's of 1.31 and 1.36 got VR and f, respectively).
(2) Thermal stabilities (Tm's) of the hybrid between the 2'-O-methyl ribooligomer and the complementary ribooligomer and of the related hybrids are compared.
(3) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
(4) Average temperature changes observed were less than 1 degree C. The present study demonstrates that the electrically evoked response in mammalian brain can be altered by ultrasound in a non-thermal, non-cavitational mode, and that such effects are potentially reversible.
(5) Fibroblasts from two such TSD patients had Hex A activity comprising 16% of total Hex when measured by thermal fractionation and quantitation with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-N-acetylglucosamine (4MUG).
(6) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(7) Considerable glucose 6-phosphatase activity survived 240min of treatment with phospholipase C at 5 degrees C, but in the absence of substrate or at physiological glucose 6-phosphate concentrations the delipidated enzyme was completely inactivated within 10min at 37 degrees C. However, 80mM-glucose 6-phosphate stabilized it and phospholipid dispersions substantially restored thermal stability.
(8) Both enzymes are capable of catalyzing the refolding of thermally denatured type III collagen.
(9) Effects of fixation with glutaraldehyde (GA), glutaraldehyde-osmium tetroxide (GA-OsO(4)), and osmium tetroxide (OsO(4)) on ion and ATP content, cell volume, vital dye staining, and stability to mechanical and thermal stress were studied in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC).
(10) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
(11) Thus, MT and MB evoke distinct forms of thermal dysfunction from the androgen receptor in ligand-sensitive androgen resistance.
(12) The procedure to accomplish this end utilizes the measured thermal pain threshold, surface temperature, exposure time, and incident energy on a standardized skin site (volar surface of the forearm) to obtain conductivity values.
(13) The subjects were exposed to manganese, iron , chromium compounds, thermal radiation, high temperature and noise.
(14) Thermal-denaturation studies showed that this bromoperoxidase could tolerate high temperatures.
(15) The melanins examined show significant differences in conductivity, thermal activation energy and photocurrent intensity values.
(16) Pig kidney extracts have been partially purified by thermal denaturation and chromatography on Sephadex G-200 and D.E.A.E.
(17) The temperature optimum is 70-73 degrees C and growth occurs from 62 to 77 degrees C. The organism's thermal and physiological characteristics are compared to those of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, Sulfolobus acidocalderius, Thermus aquaticus, Thermus flavus, as well as Thiobacillus denitrificans, the latter being the only other facultatively anaerobic chemolithotroph which has been isolated and described.
(18) A low-intensity thermally evoked tail avoidance reflex (LITETAR) was used to study changes in nociceptive response produced by local anesthetics and cobalt chloride microinjected into the dorsal posterior mesencephalic tegmentum (DPMT) of conscious rats.
(19) The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) studies demonstrate an increased susceptibility of the Ala 183----Pro mutant to thermal denaturation.
(20) Comparison with earlier neutron studies on triclinic lysozyme showed that neither the molecular structure nor the thermal motions were affected significantly by the ethanol.