(n.) A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.
Example Sentences:
Tantalate
Definition:
(n.) A salt of tantalic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Director Gareth Edwards , who made Godzilla, introduced a tantalizing concept reel to preview the mysterious film, which is part of a series of films exploring other stories outside of the core Star Wars saga.
(2) Tantalizing preliminary data suggest that GH therapy has a role in the management of short, poorly growing children with other causes for their growth failure.
(3) The structural basis underlying a frequently occurring form of chromosome size polymorphism is now understood and other polymorphisms are providing tantalizing clues to the mechanisms underlying drug resistance.
(4) Although a similar accuracy to other approaches (utilizing a mean-square error) is achieved using this new measure, the accuracy on the training set is significantly and tantalizingly higher, even though the number of adjustable parameters remains the same.
(5) This is all the more tantalizing given the proposed structure of this receptor which, like all other G protein-coupled receptors, is thought to have the putative transmembrane helices forming a bundle-like structure in the plasma membrane.
(6) Geithner has tantalizing snippets of self-awareness – “I must have sounded like a bank lobbyist when opposing financial reform ”.
(7) Although the isoquinoline hypothesis has stimulated and even tantalized the scientific inquiry of a small number of investigators, it has been an area of widespread controversy.
(8) The role of adjuvant therapy is not yet established despite tantalizing biologic effects documented in their trials.
(9) Phospholipid turnover is one "panel" in the islet; however, an obligate role for phospholipase activation in glucose-induced insulin secretion is not yet rigorously established, despite tantalizing, inferential evidence.
(10) For several decades a tantalizing goal for the treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma has been the development of a topically active carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.
(11) The left side of the infield is once again tantalizing Beltran but he is swinging away here.
(12) Currently, there is no evidence in humans that converting enzyme inhibitors are superior to alternative antihypertensive agents in retarding progression, but tantalizing preliminary evidence on this has been reported in nondiabetic patients with renal failure.
(13) There are tantalizing indications that restricting dietary intake may improve human health and longevity.
(14) I know scientists have got to whet the appetite for future publications, but this is just too tantalizing.
(15) Two instruments, one of Russian origin, using very fine Tantale clips, permit one to carry out easily mechanical suture during operations on the digestive tract.
(16) Several tantalizing clues have been extracted from studies of the molecular pathogenesis, immunology, and biochemistry of endometriosis.
(17) The question of the existence of a complex class of poly(A)- brain mRNAs is particularly tantalizing in light of the heterogeneity of brain cells and the possibility that the stability of these poly(A)- mRNAs might vary with changes in synaptic function, changing hormonal stimulation or with other modulations of neuronal function.
(18) Our proposition that parkinsonian akinesia could be attributable to an impairment in the motor preparatory process therefore remains a tantalizing possibility.
(19) For the future there is the tantalizing promise that once the principles of coordination are understood, we can move on to the more intriguing questions of how a certain 'toss of the head' and 'look in the eye' not only transfer gaze but can also be so meaningful.
(20) The potential has remained tantalizing by the occasional clinical success, at least in depressor terms, of the early ganglionic blocking agents.