(n.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The uptake of cobalt by macrophages in the presence of tungsten carbide was found to be increased.
(2) A previous study from this laboratory, using morphological and biochemical (LDH release) parameters, has shown that tungsten carbide-cobalt dust exhibits a greater cytotoxicity toward isolated macrophages than cobalt metal powder alone.
(3) Acceptable finishing procedures for the composite materials tested include silicon carbide disks for accessible areas or 12 fluted finishing burs for more inaccessible areas.
(4) A cross-sectional study of 1,039 tungsten carbide (TC) production workers was carried out.
(5) Experimental measurements have been made of the ultrasonic velocity and attenuation in some simple suspensions of, mainly, silicon carbide in water and in ethylene glycol.
(6) Method 4 comprised a green stone, a carbide finishing bur, and the Vivadent polisher for composite.
(7) It was considered that foreign bodies were composed of carbon steel, steel alloy, and tungsten carbide.
(8) A titanium nitride coating has been deposited on steel and tungsten carbide dental rotary instruments.
(9) On stimulation of the lungs with an inert dust (silicon carbide), the AM count in the BAL and the lung was only slightly increased 8 weeks after intratracheal instillation.
(10) The results showed that the high speed finishing technique by twelve and thirty fluted carbide burs and final polishing with Command Ultrafine Luster Paste produces the smoothest and flatest surface of HERCULITE XR.
(11) Workers in the silicon carbide industry have experienced occupational health diseases, particularly lung disorders such as silicosis.
(12) Finishing with the aid of properly formed diamond stones or tungsten-carbide finishers in the normal speed range 6.
(13) To investigate this, we analyzed pairs of chest radiographs obtained in 1977 and 1984 in 128 silicon carbide plant workers.
(14) For forty years, cases of interstitial pneumonia and bronchial asthma have been described in hard metal workers (i.e., alloys of tungsten carbide and cobalt).
(15) Para-tertiary butylphenol [(PTBP); the Union Carbide Corporation trademark for this chemical is UCAR Butylphenol 4-T Flake] has applications as a raw material in the manufacture of resins and also as an industrial intermediate.
(16) We have previously demonstrated that tungsten carbide-cobalt powder (WC-Co) is more toxic toward murine macrophages in vitro than pure cobalt metal particles and that the cellular uptake of cobalt is enhanced when the metal is present in the form of WC-Co mixture.
(17) Fifty extracted maxillary central incisors were mounted in cups and the facial surfaces of the crowns were polished on 600-grit silicon carbide paper.
(18) The pulpal perforations were treated by partial pulpotomy with a tungsten carbide fissure bur after exposure for 4, 48, or 168 hours in nine animals, and by direct pulp capping after exposure for 4 or 48 hours in the remaining four animals.
(19) There the combination of a preparing diamond cutter with a tungsten carbide finisher proved a success both relating to profiles of enamel bevel after acid etching, small disturbed enamel structure and as to clinical handling.
(20) These observations add further evidence to our previous findings regarding the different biological reactivity of cobalt metal alone or mixed with tungsten carbide.
Trivial
Definition:
(n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
(a.) Found anywhere; common.
(a.) Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
(a.) Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the trivium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
(2) Governmental regulations, requirements, and standards have improved the quality of many laboratories' work, but also result in greatly increased costs, excesses of often trivial procedures, and diversion of trained manpower from clinical service to regulatory procedures, with a resulting increase in manpower needs.
(3) Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter.
(4) While they might technically have been denied a majority in that scenario, making up the two missing seats would have been trivial.
(5) We have shown that patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) complain of disabling dyspnea when performing seemingly trivial tasks with unsupported arms.
(6) Given the documented sensitivity of chest radiography in this respect, we conclude that any increase in extravascular lung water during exercise must be trivial.
(7) schizophrenia), the underestimation of prevalence by the proband method may be non-trivial.
(8) They range from relatively trivial conditions such as oral and genital thrush to fatal, systemic superinfections in patients who are already seriously ill with other diseases.
(9) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(10) To the sensitization and the sensitine production the following type strains (Trudeau Institute Saranac Lake) were used: M. avium, M. borstelense, M.chelonei, M. flavescens, M. fortuitum, M. gastri, M. gordonae, M.kansaii, M. marinum, M nonchromogenicum, M. phlei, M. scrofulaceum, M. smegmatis, M. terrae, M. triviale and M. bovis strain Vallee as well as M. intracellulare serotyp Davis ATCC 23435.
(11) Cardiovascular sequelae were generally trivial at all doses.
(12) Previous studies have indicated that suppression is mediated by "null cells" similar to natural suppressor (NS) cells (1), and have ruled out several possible trivial explanations for the suppressive effect.
(13) Since the biosynthetic route is similar to that of lipoxin A4 and lipoxin B4, we suggest the trivial names lipoxin C4, D4 and E4.
(14) This polysaccharide has been given the trivial name marginalan.
(15) Rupture of the bridging veins or the intratumoral abnormal vessels due to twisting of the brain from trivial head trauma or without trauma might produce subdural hematoma.
(16) Five patients had normal intracardiac hemodynamic values, 2 had trivial atrioventricular valve regurgitation and 1 patient had trivial pulmonary ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
(17) Six weeks later, two weeks after a trivial trauma with hyperextension of the shoulder joint, it was found that the catheter had broken and its tip portion had embolized into the pulmonary artery: it was retrieved without difficulty via the femoral vein.
(18) The results indicate that dichromatic and trichromatic monkeys differ only trivially on tests where performance is based on the contributions of non-opponent mechanisms, that the contribution of spectrally opponent mechanisms to the "brightness signal" is very similar in trichromatic and dichromatic monkeys, and that in increment-threshold discriminations where there are both chromaticity and luminance cues some test wavelengths yield superior performance for trichromats while others appear to favor the dichromat.
(19) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
(20) The appetite was selective as shown by the fact that when, after depletion, 0.34 M-CaCl2 was offered (which is equiosmotic to 3% NaCl) pigeons took just a trivial amount of it.