What's the difference between crystalline and limpid?

Crystalline


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting, or made, of crystal.
  • (a.) Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
  • (a.) Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
  • (a.) Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
  • (n.) A crystalline substance.
  • (n.) See Aniline.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (2) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
  • (3) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
  • (4) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (5) These two crystallins were compared with respect to their native molecular masses, subunit structures, peptide mapping and amino acid compositions in order to establish the identity of each crystallin.
  • (6) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
  • (7) Antigenic properties of crystalline pepsin, trypsin and chymotrypsin were studied in 9 rabbits immunised with these enzymes.
  • (8) X-ray diffraction spectrum of 1:8 coprecipitate (COPPT) showed no crystalline structure of AD.
  • (9) However, significant differences in the formation and melting of the highly crystalline phase were evident between the two polar headgroup stereoisomers.
  • (10) Degradation studies of the crystalline antibiotic, m.p.
  • (11) Crystalline derivatives of the amino sugar i. e. methyleremosaminide and methyl-N,O-acetyleremosaminide (alpha- and beta-anomers) were prepared.
  • (12) A systematic structural comparison of several carp gamma-crystallins with high methionine contents was made by the secondary-structure prediction together with computer model-building based on the established X-ray structure of calf gamma-II crystallin.
  • (13) The lens cell-free system synthesizes in addition to the crystallins, polypeptides which co-electrophorese with lens plasma membrane protein components.
  • (14) Arrhenius plots of the leakage rates showed breaks in the 20-25 degrees C temperature range, which correspond to the gel-liquid crystalline phase transition of the target liposomes.
  • (15) These results suggest that ATP modulates the functional behavior of alpha-crystallin.
  • (16) Because anesthetics transform the solid-gel membrane into a liquid-crystalline state, and because phospholipid membranes display an anomaly in permeability at the phase transition, dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles were studied at temperatures above the main phase transition to avoid this anomaly.
  • (17) By monitoring the synthesis of specific lens crystallin proteins, and the morphological and cellular changes associated with this differentiated system, we have demonstrated a close correlation between statin expression and cell commitment to the G0 nonreplicative cell cycle state.
  • (18) Developmental regulation of crystallin protein synthesis was observed in rat lenses between embryonic day 19 and postnatal day 21.
  • (19) Bovine lens calf gamma-II crystallin contains five histidine residues at sequence positions 14, 53, 84, 117, and 122.
  • (20) A second crystalline material was observed within cells in the 15,000 X g pellet from spinal fluid.

Limpid


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All is limpid observation, gliding from one bittern to another, until the startling remark that fading colour enhanced the flowers' "sincerity", as if they have been pressing a case.
  • (2) It's a stretch that has at least 243 beaches of unparalleled beauty , and the kind of limpid aquamarine saltwater that has sent poets into raptures.
  • (3) What was rather sweet was that he clearly thought he was making everything limpidly clear while almost everyone around him reeled in utter bewilderment.
  • (4) Flugge points out a paradox: her limpid translation style has meant that her work travels, and her visibility in terms of international awards has been part of her service to literature.
  • (5) Enamel resins were grouped into two types according to different color groups, one group similar to achromatic color with low limpidity and the other similar to the dentin color with high limpidity.
  • (6) Anna Martens Vino di Anna Etna Rosso Jeudi 15, Sicily, Italy 2012 (£15.54, winebear.com ; Les Caves de Pyrene ) Like all Italian wines, this limpid and fluent light red from the slopes of Etna is built with plenty of acidity to cope with food, and there's a red-berry-and-herbs flavour here too that has a kinship with pasta with tomatoes either in a sauce or al crudo.
  • (7) The sea in Pembrokeshire, everyone agreed, had the gorgeous turquoise limpidity of the waters around the Seychelles or Maldives.
  • (8) Injection of a pilocarpine solution into the hemocoele of female B. microplus through the respiratory spiracle induced the flow of limpid saliva, collected from the mouth parts with a capillary tube.
  • (9) In a limpid dining room are portraits of Tolstoy and his family by the painter Repin; round the corner is his 22,000-volume library; in the woods is his unmarked oblong grave.
  • (10) However, this multiplication never leads to appearance of a sufficiently great number of populations to affect the limpidity of the water.
  • (11) I'm going to take the most extraordinary political event that has happened in Britain for however many years and I am going to doggedly interiorise it and depoliticise it with a certain type of limpid prose .