What's the difference between concretion and mineral?

Concretion


Definition:

  • (n.) The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.
  • (n.) A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus.
  • (n.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
  • (2) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
  • (3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (4) The question of ethics inevitably arises, and should be considered before a concrete situation arises which leaves no time for reflection.
  • (5) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (6) As a result of a psychopathological total systems analysis of the debut of exogenously aggravated and nonaggravated paranoid schizophrenia the authors have revealed a significant interrelationship allowing the characterization of both general regularities of the "background" effect and individual characteristics secondary to a concrete nature of exogenous impact.
  • (7) Fifty-seven percent had concrete evidence of serious psychiatric disorder.
  • (8) Fifa and I will take the Qatari authorities at their word and I look forward to the concrete actions which will be the real testament of will,” Infantino said.
  • (9) Three attributes of words are their imageability, concreteness, and familiarity.
  • (10) The paper finishes with concrete propositions of proceeding when the computer system is implemented and shows possibilities of scientific data evaluation of a microbiological data base.
  • (11) Now, with cuts biting every community and public service in the UK, the possibility for a full-blown confrontation between the government and an anti-austerity movement has become concrete.
  • (12) Those who remained in east Aleppo pointed out where families had been buried under mountains of concrete.
  • (13) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
  • (14) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
  • (15) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
  • (16) described in Lösungen - an analysis of concrete treatment examples could yield suitable therapeutic techniques to broaden the interventional spectrum of psychotherapy, especially of behavioral oriented forms.
  • (17) In a bid to strengthen its claims, China has constructed concrete installations on some underwater formations, complete with basketballs and helipads.
  • (18) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
  • (19) What remains to be developed is a "differential health psychology of the concrete individual", which might the way for prophylactic health promotion oriented towards the norm of individuality.
  • (20) The presence of similar concretion in the nervous system as well as the lung in other reported cases suggests that microlithiasis could be a systemic disease.

Mineral


Definition:

  • (v. i.) An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
  • (v. i.) A mine.
  • (v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
  • (a.) Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
  • (2) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (3) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (4) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
  • (5) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
  • (6) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (8) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
  • (9) These data indicate improved bone mineralization as compared with previously reported data from very-low-birth-weight neonates.
  • (10) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
  • (11) Artificially produced mineral waters which are identical to natural ones are also applied.
  • (12) The method of mineral estimation using phalanges is described and its reproducibility was tested on 17 parameters.
  • (13) Secondary structural features of bovine amelogenin, a hydrophobic protein of developing enamel implicated in ename mineralization, are derived using 2D NMR spectroscopy in solution and molecular mechanics-dynamics studies.
  • (14) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
  • (15) Microbiological analyses of sediments located near a point source for petrogenic chemicals resulted in the isolation of a pyrene-mineralizing bacterium.
  • (16) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
  • (17) Unsupplemented human breast milk may not provide sufficient calcium and phosphorus for the rapidly growing preterm infant to match the accumulation that should have taken place in utero and to permit normal bone mineralization.
  • (18) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
  • (19) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
  • (20) These diets were: diet C consisting of commercial Rat Chow: diet CG, the same diet diluted with 70% glucose calories, diet A, a simulated "American" diet made up of 25 widely used foods, diet AS, the same diet supplemented with small amounts of 25 vitamins and minerals.