(n.) The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guinea pig splenic lymphocytes and peritoneal macrophage cultures were incubated with quartz (DQ12), Corundum and aspirin as prostaglandin inhibitor.
(2) 3M discs and the rough corundum discs caused significantly more surface roughness of the Cosmic surface.
(3) The maximum values of tensile strength were measured when 200-250 microns corundum was used.
(4) Experiments carried out over a long period have shown that corundum ceramic is a strong material and is biologically inert.
(5) At desired time of incubation, the bacteria were washed with water, disintegrated with powdered corundum and in resulting cell-free extracts L-asparaginase activity was determined by the Conway method.
(6) Corundum produced no significant effect on the enzyme activity.
(7) The results showed that quartz induced a substantial increase of lipid peroxide in PAMs compared with both samples (dust-free or exposed to corundum).
(8) No adverse effects of corundum ceramics were noted.
(9) Corundum, which is sapphire, is number nine.” “The relative hardness of sapphire is 400, compared to quartz which is 100, so it is a lot harder than quartz,” Alford stressed.
(10) The results were compared with quartz dust as the known fibrogenic dust and emery dust (Corundum) was used as a control dust.
(11) Raman spectroscopy showed that both the socket and the beads are composed of alpha-Al2O3 (corundum), while the bioactive glass (alkaline and alkaline earth alumosilicate with a small quantity of zirconium oxide) showed this to have an intermediate structure between that of vitreous silica and that of the alkaline and alkaline earth disilicate glasses.
(12) All the lungs contained quartz and silicates and in most of the necropsy cases carborundum and corundum could also be shown.
(13) Quartz treatment did not alter esterase activity whereas corundum exposed cultures showed a decline.
(14) NH, a producer of glucoamylase, were cultivated in the presence of various supporting materials (three microspherical zeolitic particles, alpha-alumina and foam corundum).
(15) The results obtained showed that a significant inhibition of antibody formation to human albumin took place in animals with experimental silicosis in comparison with control rats that were given physiological saline or corundum as established by passive haemagglutination reaction according to Boyden as well as enhancement of the intensity of the delayed-type hypersensitivity to tuberculin.
(16) A complex of implanted dentures was manufactured with a corundum ceramic compound "Kador" made in the USSR.
(17) According to the present in vitro study it is possible to bond NPM alloy restorations with Panavia Ex several days after air brushing with corundum.
(18) Implants of corundum ceramic have been used in the treatment of 38 patients with bony tumours of the limbs.
(19) The patient's spine has been fixed by means of implant, made of corundum porous ceramic, metal plate and lavsan band.
(20) The values of the R(a) and Rmax were grown proportionally with the grain of corundum, but it was not resulted in the same increase of the tensile strength.
Emery
Definition:
(n.) Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not for Spain but I played a couple of games there with Unai Emery at Valencia.
(2) The original Virginia family with X-linked muscular dystrophy with early contractures and cardiomyopathy (Emery-Dreifuss type) has been reinvestigated 25 years later.
(3) Unstained fibers were observed in mitochondrial myopathies, in Becker, Emery-Dreifuss, limb-girdle, facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophies, muscle infarction, polymyositis, motor neuron diseases and neuropathies.
(4) The instruments that were used to measure the study variables were the General Cognitive Error Questionnaire (Lefebvre, 1981) and the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979).
(5) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is particularly worthy of recognition because of the preventable occurrence of sudden death in young patients with an otherwise excellent prognosis.
(6) The clinical features to establish the diagnosis of X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EMD) were recently redefined at the European EMD workshop in Baarn 1991.
(7) A modification is given of the original density function formula of EMERY and MORTON for estimating heterozygosity in X-linked Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
(8) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
(9) We have searched for linkage between polymorphic loci defined by DNA markers on the X chromosome and X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD).
(10) "I think that the best team did win," said the Sevilla coach, Unai Emery.
(11) Completed specimens emery polished were stored in lactic acid at 37 degrees C for 3 months, and sand-blasted were for 6 months.
(12) The Sevilla coach, Unai Emery, has not beaten Barcelona in 19 matches but has the new signings Yevhen Konoplyanka and Ciro Immobile, although Adil Rami is a doubt due to illness.
(13) We report that an increased chloride efflux with respect to controls is present not only in fibroblasts from DMD, but also from two other X-linked muscular dystrophies, Becker and Emery-Dreifuss, as well as in clones from DMD carrier females.
(14) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is an X-linked recessive condition characterized by mild muscular weakness predominantly in a humero-peroneal distribution with variable facial involvement.
(15) Linkage studies have narrowed the interval to which the Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) gene maps, raising prospects for isolating this locus.
(16) We present five patients, three of whom suffered from a rigid spine syndrome and two from Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
(17) Lung weight: body weight ratios (LW:BW) were calculated, and morphometry was determined by the radial alveolar count (RAC) (Emery and Mithal, 1960).
(18) "You'd rather we didn't... You are awful... but I like you," he answers in his best Dick Emery voice.
(19) Unai Emery has informed Sevilla of his wish to leave the club amid interest from Paris Saint-Germain , with the La Liga club confirming they have lined up the Argentinian Jorge Sampaoli as his replacement.
(20) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a syndrome with five salient features: early and unusual contractures; humeroperoneal muscle wasting; the slow progression of weakness, beginning in childhood; cardiac conduction defects; and X-linked inheritance.