(n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.
Example Sentences:
(1) decens; both seem to succeed better in the dry season, contrary to all other anophelines, (iii) A. coustani profits by the third period when the pH of the breeding places becomes basic.
(2) With the substrate 1-decene, which is capable of undergoing both epoxidation and hydroxylation, the former reaction predominates.
(3) City are a decen ... well, more than a decent team but I think we can beat them.
(4) During an entomological survey conducted in French Territory of Afars and Issas from November 1973 to June 1975, seven Culex species were collected: C. sitiens, C. tritaeniorhynchus, C. univittatus, C. simpsoni, C. laticinctus, C. pipiens fatigans, C. tenagius, to which we must add two other doubtfully identified species (C. ethiopicus and C. decens), and one unidentified species.
(5) Steric hindrance increased with the size of the ring and was particularly strong when cyclooctene, -decene and -dodecene oxides were considered.
(6) Of the six species found, Culex decens Theobald and Culex cinereus Theobald appeared to be competing successfully with Culex quinquefasciatus Say during the wet season but not during the long dry season.
(7) The alkene hydroxylase activity in the S-3 fraction, purified 167 times from diethylaminoethyl-cellulose, was shown by the same methodology to convert decene to decanol.
(8) Cx decens appeared to colonize the exposed compost water more readily in the dry season, but changed to the covered septic tank water in the wet season.
(9) These were colonized by Cx quinquefasciatus, Cx decens, Ae.
(10) The following acids were found: hexane-1,6-dioic acid, octane-1,8-dioic acid, decane-1,10-dioic acid, dodecane-1,12-dioic acid, cis-5-decene-1,10-dioic acid, cis-5-dodecen-1,12-dioic acid, cis-5-tetradecene-1,14-dioic acid, trans-3-decene-1,10-dioic acid, and trans-3-dodecene-1,12-dioic acid.
(11) The cyclopentene, -hexene, -heptene, -octene and -decene oxides adopted mainly a cis-configuration.
(12) cis-5-Decene-1, 10-dioic acid and cis-5-dodencene-1, 12-dioic acid were synthesized and used as references.
(13) The compounds were: the n-alkanes octane, nonane, decane, undecane, dodecane and tridecane; the iso-alkanes 2-methylheptane, 2-methyloctane and 2-methylnonane; the naphthenes 1,2-dimethylcyclohexane, 1,2,4-trimethylcyclohexane and tert-butylcyclohexane; the aromates 1,2-dimethylbenzene, 1,2,4-trimetylbenzene and tert-butylbenzene; and the alkenes 1-octene, 1-nonene and 1-decene.
(14) The convergent synthetic approach utilizes a 2-lithio-1,3-dithiane derived from 10-undecenal or 9-decenal, which is alkylated with the OBO (oxabicyclooctyl) ester of 5-bromopentanoic acid or 6-bromohexanoic acid, respectively.
(15) The n-alkane dehydrogenase (fraction R-3), obtained as a single peak from Bio-Gel P-60, showed an overall 135-fold purification and was demonstrated by infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography to convert n-decane to 1-decene.
Decent
Definition:
(a.) Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
(a.) Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
(a.) Comely; shapely; well-formed.
(a.) Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Essien, by the way, has been decent so far, other than the error just mentioned.
(2) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
(3) How, in the name of all that is decent and honest in this world did we let this happen?
(4) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(5) Or we publish only with decent publishers, who believe that books are meant to be read and not simply profited from.
(6) Working people want trade policy that supports good jobs and decent wages.
(7) Doing the decent thing has guaranteed them an avalanche of applause when next they play at Goodison - in blue or red."
(8) It is, in fact, quite astonishing to find British housebuilders and planners going along with the design and construction of such decent new homes.
(9) They’d both had decent jobs, but because they didn’t have rich parents, they couldn’t get a big enough deposit to buy a house.
(10) If the billions that have been thrown at this programme had been invested in providing teachers with decent, evidence-based training which is “on-the-job”, then standards would have sky-rocketed and we would be vying with the best education systems in the world, such as those in Finland and Singapore.
(11) Eddie Howe’s team had decent spells of possession but they could not create anything of clearcut note and Petr Cech reached his heavily signposted milestone as the Premier League’s clean-sheet king without needing to make a serious save.
(12) M&S does have a decent alternative use for some of their spare space – food.” About 10 years ago, M&S cut back the amount of space devoted to food in a handful of stores.
(13) In the mid-elementary school-aged child the decentering process emphasized by Piaget, together with the emerging capacity for making allowance for the context within which events occur, leads to the dyadic relationship being seen by the child as being mediated through the transactions of two autonomous mental apparatuses.
(14) I have to say I think Iran are the poorest team I've seen so far – Nigeria were dreadful in that game but you got the sense that at leas they were a half-decent team playing badly.
(15) 8.54pm GMT Somen Tchoyi, who once looked a decent prospect at WBA before being released last year and failing to impress during trials at Wolves and Birmingham, has pitched up in the Bundesliga, where Augsburg have just taken him on.
(16) We should have a decent enough budget to put together a squad capable of challenging towards the top, or at least putting up something of a fight in games.
(17) His free-kick was decent, he whipped the ball around the ball, but it was half-cleared before it could creep inside the far post.
(18) 12.44am BST Ah, here's @NotCoachTito, sitting somewhere idly wondering what it's like in Fenway tonight...actually, he may have a decent idea of the atmosphere.
(19) He’s the kind of self-styled intellectual journalist in politics who caused so much trouble in 20th century politics, not a bad man, decent enough in his way, but not as smart as he thinks he is, vain with it.
(20) Agroecology guarantees land to peasants, species diversity, decent work and food sovereignty, among other principles.