What's the difference between cobalt and smaltine?
Cobalt
Definition:
(n.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
(n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resonance Raman spectra of oxy and deoxy cobalt-substituted hemoglobin (CoHb) are reported.
(2) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(3) This correlated very well with the EPO concentration in the circulation; EPO levels in the circulation were the same as those of controls at 3 h but increased to six- to sevenfold that of controls by 6 h after cobalt injection.
(4) Iron, zinc, cadmium, cobalt, and lead do not interfere.
(5) In addition the following are recommended: intra-arterial embolization of the A. maxilleris interna by carotis external angiography and intranasal contact irradiation with cobalt, radium, or iridium.
(6) 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.
(7) Cobalt chloride and heat shock, which are potent inducers of HO mRNA in rat liver and rat C6 glioma cells, respectively, have only a small effect on the level of HO mRNA in mouse hepatoma cells.
(8) All workers exposed to hard metal were medically examined and their exposure to cobalt measured.
(9) Throughout the decade that it took GM to recall the Cobalt, there was a lack of accountability, a lack of urgency, and a failure of company personnel charged with ensuring the safety of the company's vehicles to understand how GM's own cars were designed.
(10) A knee simulator was used to study the wear of carbon fiber reinforced UHMWPE (Poly Two) (Poly Two is a registered trademark of Zimmer, USA) tibial and patellar components against Ti-6A1-4V, titanium nitride (TiN)-coated Ti-6A1-4V, and cobalt-chromium-molybdenum femoral components.
(11) Barium (5 mM) had little effect and cobalt slightly reduced the ACh-induced Ca2+ response.
(12) Evaluation of the efficacy of contamination control, however, was directed primarily to the finished, packaged products, just prior to the processing with cobalt 60.
(13) Actinomycin inhibits Mbo I activity in the presence of cobalt hexamine but not in the absence.
(14) Axonal ionophoresis of cobalt salts was used for the study of sensory fibers regeneration through the scar in DRG during 3, 7, 15, 30, 120 and 180 days after the damage.
(15) Analysis of data on the influence of different metals (cadmium, cobalt, molybdenum) on the Drosophila melanogaster cells has revealed a considerable genotoxic effect of cadmium salts which manifests in the high percentage of cells elimination at the early stages of spermatogenesis--the premeiotic cells.
(16) To determine cell-mediated immunity to nickel, another matrix in hard metal besides cobalt, lymphocyte transformation tests (LTT) with nickel were carried out in seven hard metal asthma patients all of who had reacted to cobalt chloride in the bronchial provocation tests (BPT).
(17) The amounts of polyethylene and methylmethacrylate debris and the histological reactions in the tissues corresponded closely with those reported in earlier studies of total hip prostheses made of stainless steel or cobalt-chromium alloy.
(18) The Arbor was supported by Artangel , the arts commissioning body that produced Rachel Whiteread's House , her 1993 cast of a condemned terraced home, and Roger Hiorns's Seizure (2008), an empty council flat encrusted with cobalt-blue crystals.
(19) This cross-sectional study was undertaken after the discovery of cobalt-related fibrosing alveolitis and bronchial asthma in diamond polishers occupationally exposed to cobalt.
(20) Local cobalt (Co2+) or manganese (Mn2+) applications could abolish amino acid-evoked [Ca2+]o changes, whereas most of the [K+]o changes persisted.