(1) The red free radical is readily reduced quantitatively by isoniazid to the colourless chloropromazine.
(2) The end point of serum titration is the last well containing colourless medium.
(3) Based on their spectral transmission, the lenses of 50 teleost species can be classified into three categories: "type 1" colourless lenses with 50% transmission points between 315 and 354 nm, "type 2" lenses which also appear colourless but have 50% cut-off points around 362-405 nm, and "type 3" lenses which are visibly yellow (50% transmission 425-450 nm).
(4) Last September, when Barack Obama's approval ratings were in the low to mid-40s and a clear majority of Americans said he did not deserve a second term, veteran pollster Charlie Cook described his ideal Republican opponent as "odourless and colourless".
(5) Now, with the gruesome killing of Farooq, a senior if largely colourless figure, the bloodshed appears to have spread from Pakistan to the streets of north London.
(6) Eosinophil colonies appear strongly stained in black whereas other types of colonies (neutrophils and macrophages) remain colourless.
(7) Unbound bilirubin is oxidized to nearly colourless substances in the presence of H2O2 or ethyl hydroperoxide and horseradish peroxidase.
(8) Granular cells (cells crowded with colourless granules staining with paraldehyde fuchsin according to Gomori-Gabe and not containing calcium) are independent cells in the connective tissue of Helix pomatia.
(9) Stratum corneum was obtained by tape stripping of volar forearm skin after the skin surface had been painted with colourless nail varnish.
(10) Perfluorodecalin is a clear colourless fluid with high specific gravity.
(11) Normally the synovial fluid of bovines is a clear, colourless or straw coloured, viscous, non-coagulable liquid with a normal mucin precipitate quality.
(12) For Disney animation has a long history of LGBT coding, intended and otherwise, that makes Beauty and the Beast’s more “official” gay gestures look rather colourless.
(13) The larger cysts protruded from the liver surfaces and contained a colourless, clear, serous fluid and caused pathological change in 5-60 per cent of the hepatic parenchyma.
(14) VX, a clear, colourless liquid with the consistency of engine oil, was developed in the UK in the 1950s during research into pesticides but was found to be too toxic to be used safely.
(15) In some organisms, both enzymes are localized in the same region, which finally leads to the formation of hydrasine tetrazolium, a soluble colourless compound, but not of diformazan, an insoluble stained derivative of tetrazolium nitroblue.
(16) Natural water suitable for direct bottling must be clear, colourless, and free from objectionable taste and odour.
(17) In addition to biochemical changes in response to variations in the ratio of availability of various resources (photons, N, P) there are also structural changes; significant here is the increased occurrence of (often colourless) hairs in haptophytes and (probably) of enhanced rhizoid development in rhizophytes.
(18) Puncture produced clear, colourless fluid without signs of inflammatory changes.
(19) We are seeing this level of impact to coral reefs around the world from Hawaii to the Florida Keys, from Madagascar to Indonesia.” He said what he saw in other reefs around the world took his breath away: “Not a fish in site, colourless, ghost-like coral, a complete graveyard.” In response, Queensland’s deputy premier, Jackie Trad, invited DiCaprio to come and see the reef for himself.
(20) It is one of the most powerful explosives made today and is a favourite among terrorists because its colourless crystals are hard to detect in a sealed container.
Nitromethane
Definition:
(n.) A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nitromethane (NM) and 2-nitropropane (2-NP) and versatile compounds employed in a wide variety of industrial applications, thus providing ample opportunity for occupational exposure.
(2) The bound FAD and Fe3+ are reduced by the addition of nitromethane, which is not a substrate, under anaerobic conditions.
(3) Subsequent O-methylation, O-deacetylation, and condensation with nitromethane afforded the appropriate beta-glycoside of 3-methoxy-4-(2-nitrovinyl)phenol.
(4) The best yield of beta-linked disaccharide was obtained upon glycosylation by benzobromogalactose in the presence of silver triflate and tetramethylurea in nitromethane.
(5) However, treatment of 2',3'-di-O-acetyl-5'-O-tritylribavirin (11) with 4 under the Bredereck modification of the Koenigs-Knorr reaction (i.e., silver perchlorate and Drierite in nitromethane) and subsequent deacetylation furnished the desired 1-(5-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)-1,2,4-triazole-3-carb oxamide (13).
(6) The hepatotoxic and mutagenic potentials of 2-nitropropane, nitromethane, and nitroethane were compared.
(7) Trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate in nitromethane, however, gave predominantly the alpha anomer.
(8) Metabolic effects of in vivo administration of nitromethane, a histidase inhibitor, were studied in the rat.
(9) Liver histidase activity was decreased about 78 percent after nitromethane administration, and the rate of in vivo CO2 production from histidine was also depressed.
(10) In addition to 2-nitropropane, 1-nitropropane and nitroethane are oxidatively dentrified by the enzyme, but nitromethane is inert to the enzyme.
(11) They are low-spin hexacoordinated myoglobin or hemoglobin complexes, as shown by the resonance Raman spectrum of the nitromethane-derived human hemoglobin complex which is similar to those of the known hemoglobin complexes with O2, CO, NO and nitrosobenzene.
(12) The quenching of the etheno group by nitromethane was, however, unaffected by the binding of S-1 to actin.
(13) The condensation of no-carrier-added or carrier-added [11C]nitromethane with D-arabinose to form the intermediate epimeric [1-11C]D-nitro alcohols (I and II) was investigated under various conditions.
(14) The cocktails showed higher backgrounds, lower unquenched efficiencies, and greater quench resistance to nitromethane than a reference toluene based preparation.
(15) When nitromethane was added to plasma, the apparent creatinine measured was linearly related to the amount of nitromethane added.
(16) We have observed that high SOD-like function (decomposition of superoxide anion) was observed for several iron(III) compounds with tripodal ligands and several oxovanadium(IV) compounds, and also that these compounds exhibit high catalytic activity for oxidative cleavage of 3,5-di-tert-butylcatechol in non-donating solvents such as dichloromethane or nitromethane.
(17) Different doses of benzo(a)pyrene, cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) and its nitromethane fraction (NMF), in wax pellets, were directly implanted into the lungs of Syrian golden hamsters.
(18) Condensation of methyl 3-O-(2-acetamido-4,6-O-benzylidene-2-deoxy-beta-D- glucopyranosyl)-2,4,6-tri-O-benzyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside with 3-O-(2-acetamido-3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-2,4,6 -tri-O-acetyl-alpha-D-galactopyranosyl bromide in 1:1 benzene-nitromethane in the presence of powdered mercuric cyanide gave a fully-protected tetrasaccharide derivative, which was O-deacetylated and then subjected to catalytic hydrogenation to furnish methyl O-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-(1----3)-O-beta- D-galactopyranosyl-(1----3)-O-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranosyl )- (1----3)-beta-D-galactopyranoside (15).
(19) Rates of enzyme degradation in the two strains, measured by recovery of activity after irreversible inhibition with nitromethane, were the same.
(20) The on-line synthesis of 1-11C-labelled nitroalkanes [nitromethane (I), nitroethane (II) and nitropropane (III)], from their corresponding 1-11C-labelled alkyl iodides, by use of a heated silver nitrite column is described.