(v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
(v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Charcoal particles coated with the lipid extract were prepared and the suspension inoculated intravenously into mice.
(2) This phenomenon may be overcome by utilizing more dextran-coated charcoal in the extraction.
(3) After treatment of the old rats blood serum with activated charcoal the steroid-binding transcortin capacity and its affinity to hormone was increased and the negative cooperativity was not observed.
(4) Adriamycin (ADM) was absorbed onto fine particles of activated charcoal.
(5) Hemoperfusion with coated activated charcoal (CAC) produces low removal rates due to the strong binding of bilirubin to albumin.
(6) The secretagogue activity was not extracted by charcoal, was sensitive to protease digestion and was present in a portion of nRTF with a molecular weight of greater than 10,000.
(7) Charcoal was added to the homogenization buffer in these experiments to prevent the artifactual activation of PKA by cAMP analogs trapped in the extracellular space.
(8) The quantitative and brain regional distribution of residual dexamethasone binding in cytosols pre-treated with dextran-coated charcoal (DCC) and 300 mM KCl was indistinguishable from that for tritiated aldosterone-Type I receptor complexes under the same conditions.
(9) An inexpensive, easy-to-use detector for measuring airborne 222Rn based on 222Rn diffusion and absorption in activated charcoal is presented.
(10) Polymethacrylate coated charcoal was inserted in the dialysis circuit before the dialyzer.
(11) The cytotoxicity of MS smoke was decreased with increasing smoke age (up to 8.7 s), smoke dilution, and the quantity of activated charcoal in filters.
(12) Early charcoal administration may be of value therefore in reducing the toxicity of mefenamic acid after deliberate or accidental overdosage.
(13) Also, cleanup by column chromatography on mixed adsorbents containing charcoal results in better recoveries than can be obtained on Florisil alone.
(14) OR counts in paraffin sections were compared with those of frozen sections and with cytosolic values determined by a dextran-coated charcoal method.
(15) We produce lung lacerations in 18 dogs ventilated with air containing charcoal powder.
(16) The other method uses a thermoluminescence dosemeter placed in the charcoal canister, giving an integrated value of the radon concentration.
(17) Because these contaminants have long column retention times in GLC, it may not be apparent that these contaminants are present and consequently are likely to have modified the sorbent characteristics of the activated charcoal.
(18) No changes in T3-charcoal uptake or serum T3 concentration occurred at any dose.
(19) Before and after treatment the following were recorded: subjective and objective nasal MCT time, using an original composition of vegetable charcoal powder and saccharin powder at 3%; nasal obstruction.
(20) Four methods for the detection of Trichomonas vaginalis in vaginal secretions from 88 symptomatic patients were compared: wet-mount examination, Kupferberg liquid medium, Hirsch charcoal agar, and the Papanicolaou smear.
Collier
Definition:
(n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
(n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
(2) An officer with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police, Sean Collier, 26, was identified as the victim of a shooting at the university amid a manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects.
(3) Mary Collier from Right to Life Australia, the anti-abortion group that organised the public seminars, expressed her disappointment at the high court’s decision.
(4) If we’re going to put the resources into it, then it needs to be something that supports reform, whether that be housing, education, health services.” The proposal is being considered by the Aboriginal affairs cabinet subcommittee, which Redman sits on along with Barnett and Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier.
(5) The NADase activity of choleragen was similar to that of diphtheria toxin previously described [J. Kandel, R. J. Collier & D. W. Chung (1974) J. Biol.
(6) Ethanol-induced accumulation of extracellular adenosine is required for the development of heterologous desensitization (Nagy, L. E., Diamond, I., Collier, K., Lopez, L., Ullman, B., and Gordon, A. S., Mol.
(7) Recent cloning of the human MGMT cDNA (Tano, K.; Shiota, S.; Collier, J.; Foote, R.S.
(8) Collier reiterated that royalties would not fill the gap left by federal money, but said Redman’s offer of using the development fund was a “positive commitment” that could be used to support those communities determined to be “sustainable”.
(9) The minister for Aboriginal affairs, Peter Collier, also told the WA parliament she died in hospital.
(10) WA Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier told ABC radio in Perth on Wednesday that he had not seen the report until it was shown to him by the ABC.
(11) Meanwhile, another story entitled I’m Crazy, containing material that was later used in The Catcher in the Rye , appeared in Collier’s magazine on 22 December 1945.
(12) In Duval County, overall D. tenuis prevalence was 7%, whereas that of M. llewellyni was 14%; the latter species was not found in Collier County.
(13) Mike Collier Armenia Armenia has traditionally had close ties with Russia and most Armenians continue to support that political and economic alliance.
(14) Scullion travelled to WA last week to meet Collier on another issue .
(15) Paul Collier's work, the Bottom Billion, about broken states backs up the case for using our DfID budget – yes for meeting the Millennium Development Goals, yes for vaccination and malaria reduction and all of those extremely worthwhile things – but we're mad if we don't put money into mending broken states where so many of the problems of poverty come from."
(16) The Aboriginal affairs minister, Peter Collier, has said the plan would be released “very soon”.
(17) They have made it about as clear as mud,” said Dwight Brock, clerk for Collier County.
(18) The dimeric enzyme, alpha-Glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, was purified from eight Drosophila species by the method of Collier et al.
(19) But Judge Collier said in court documents that the government had “not shown by clear and convincing evidence defendant’s release would pose an unreasonable danger to the community or any particular individual”.
(20) Western Australia's minister for education, Peter Collier, said he clicked the "like" button under what he thought was an innocent photo of the then 16-year-old in late 2011.