(n.) Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
Example Sentences:
(1) The end pool voltage-clamp circuits serve to minimize net current flow between the end pools and center pool, and employ stable, low-impedance calomel electrodes to monitor the potentials of the end and center pools.
(2) The residue of the ethyl acetate extract is dissolved in 0.1 N NaOH and analyzed by differential pulse polarography for the reduction of the nitro group at approximately -0.600 v versus the saturated calomel electrode.
(3) Pd measurement used a rectal perfused probe and a subcutaneous needle both connected, via agar-KCl bridges, to calomel electrodes and a millivoltmeter.
(4) The outputs from these electrodes fed through calomel cells were amplified and recorded directly by using an Electronics for Medicine photorecorder (White Plains, N.
(5) Recordings of electrical responses were made via a pair of calomel electrodes, in contact with woollen wicks extending from chambers 1 and 3, leading to a preamplifier linked to a cathode ray oscilloscope and a potentiometric pen recorder.
(6) The method is based on the experimental fact that the short-circuit current of the electric cell composed of an electrode with hydrogenase and methylviologen as the mediator of H2-H+ equilibrium and a saturated calomel electrode as the counter electrode, is practically proportional to the amount of hydrogenase in the cell.
(7) The course of the titration is followed potentiometrically with a glass and calomel electrode coupled and recorded automatically with a suitable registration potentiometer.
(8) Menadione is determined in the extract, which does not require further cleanup, using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with reductive mode electrochemical detection at a silver electrode at -0.75 V vs. calomel.
(9) The measurement was conducted using ferrocenylmethanol as a mediator in a stirred solution at 0.20 V versus a saturated calomel electrode.
(10) A method for determining free Ca2+-ions in the erythrocyte is described, using a commercially available ORION-Ca-electrode and calomel reference electrode assembly, where changes in free Ca2+-ion concentration upon addition of 0.01% digitonin could be measured.
(11) poly(G), poly(A, G, U) and DNA yield an anodic peak of guanine in the vicinity of a potential of -0.3 V (against a saturated calomel electrode).
(12) Bismuth gives a well-defined, diffusion-controlled cathodic wave in 1 M HCl with a half wave potential of -0.21 V with reference to a saturated calomel electrode.
(13) These currents drop sharply at potentials where tetrabutylammonium ions are desorbed, these potentials being -1.60, -1.66, -1.72, and -1.79 V versus the saturated calomel electrode (SCE) at tetrabutyla-mmonium concentrations of 0.1, 0.25, 1, and 5 mM, respectively.
(14) It was found that DNA and its adducts with antitumour active cis-diammine-dichloroplatinum(II) (cis-DDP) on the one hand and antitumour inactive trans-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (trans-DDP) and diethylenetriaminechloroplatinum(II) chloride (dien-Pt) on the other were unwound due to their adsorption on the negatively charged mercury surface polarized to the potentials of a narrow region around -1.2 V (vs. saturated calomel electrode).
(15) A polarographic signal at - 1.9 V (against a saturated-calomel electrode as a reference) is present in extracts of rapidly proliferating animal and plant tissues of normal and cancerous origin.
(16) It was shown that synthetic polynucleotides containing guanine display in cyclic voltammetry (CV) an anodic peak close to -0.3 V (against a saturated calomel electrode).
(17) Studies have been performed on changes in the activity of hydrolytic enzymes in spinal cord following a toxic action of calomel.
(18) The redox potentials of L-cell cultures reflected the pO(2) levels in the medium and ranged from -45 to +160 mv (versus calomel reference) for O(2) values ranging from 2 to 20% dissolved oxygen tension.
(19) The PC monolayer was formedon 145 mM KCL in a teflon trough and the surface change was measured by means of a Kiethley electrometer, with the high impedence output connected to an Americium 241 air electrode and the low impedence output to a calomel reference electrode.
(20) The sulfide electrode assay makes use of sulfide and calomel electrodes attached to a signal buffer which serves as an impedance match.
Mercury
Definition:
(n.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
(n.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
(n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
(n.) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
(n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
(n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
(v. t.) To wash with a preparation of mercury.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a considerably larger variability of the mercury levels in urine than in blood.
(2) Mercury compounds and EDTA were found to be potent inhibitors of proteinase yscJ activity.
(3) The effects of postnatal methyl mercury exposure on the ontogeny of renal and hepatic responsiveness to trophic stimuli were examined.
(4) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
(5) As yet the observations demonstrate that workers exposed in their occupation to heavy metals (cadmium, lead, metalic mercury) and organic solvents should be subjected to special control for detection of renal changes.
(6) Concern about the safety of the patient and dental personnel does exist, however, due to the possibilities of mercury poisoning.
(7) In order to determine the specific action of cadmium on bone metabolism, the effect of cadmium on alkaline phosphatase activity, a marker enzyme of osteoblasts, was compared with that of other divalent heavy metal ions, i.e., zinc, manganese, lead, copper, nickel and mercury (10 microM each), using cloned osteoblast-like cells, MC3T3-E1.
(8) Inorganic mercury as HgSO4 or HgCl2, at dietary levels up to 200 p.p.m.
(9) An analysis of the clinical markers indicated no clear relationship between elevated urinary mercury concentrations and kidney dysfunction.
(10) In vivo the administration of captopril prevented the toxic effects of mercury poisoning on membrane permeability, oxidative phosphorylation and Ca++ homeostasis.
(11) Histological changes were similar in inorganic and methyl mercury treated fish except the higher intensity observed in the latter treatment.
(12) Unlike other eukaryotic enzymes, the plant enzyme showed no activation with organic mercurials and was inhibited by urea and KCl.
(13) Postoperative APR improved to 86.3 millimeters of mercury and ABI to 0.63 (p less than 0.05).
(14) Attempts to induce mercury resistance in the aerobic isolates were successful, but no induction was seen in the anaerobes.
(15) High concentrations of mercury, cadmium, and lead have also been observed in urban soils.
(16) In the presence of peripheral vasodilatation, adequate blood flow can be expected after such bypass grafts at blood pressures as low as 80 millimeters of mercury and hypotension per se does not produce vascular steal.
(17) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
(18) This species, therefore, seems to be about twice as sensitive to the neurotoxic properties of methyl mercury salts as the laboratory rat.
(19) Under this condition, MeHg- and Hg(++)-induced increases in fluorescence were associated with depolarization of psi p. A second approach was used to assess changes in psi p. In synaptosomes, the magnitude of the increase in fluorescence resulting from depolarization of psi p with a stimulus of constant intensity is a function of the resting psi p. The fluorescence response to depolarization of synaptosomes previously exposed to either MeHg or Hg++ (1-20 microM each) was reduced in a concentration-dependent manner relative to mercury-free controls.
(20) Of the tubular cell ultrastructures, the lysosome was the most sensitive to mercury, and there was a close relation between the excretion of urinary mercury and the mercury detoxication mechanism of the kidney.