(n.) The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.
Example Sentences:
(1) 14 (38%) of 37 chrome platers in 17 chrome electroplating factories surveyed had occupational contact dermatitis, chrome ulcers, or both.
(2) In conclusion, the finding that adenomas and adenocarcinomas were observed in mice exposed to chromic acid mist suggests the need to give careful attention to the possibility of respiratory cancers in chromium electroplating workers.
(3) The study tested the feasibility of using urinary nickel (Ni-U) as a biological indicator to assess exposure to soluble nickel compounds in electroplating departments at concentrations well below the current TLV-TWA.
(4) Nickel subsulfide (Ni3S2), nickel sulfate (NiSO4), nickel chloride (NiCl2), and nickel oxide (NiO), are four compounds encountered by workers in the nickel-refining and electroplating industries.
(5) The relationship between atmospheric exposure to nickel and urine and plasma nickel concentrations was studied by following four workers from an electroplating shop for one work week by daily measurements of the nickel concentration in workroom air with personal samplers and nickel concentrations in blood and urine samples collected before and after the work shift.
(6) With regard to individual occupations too, the medical staff showed the highest incidence (20.8 per cent), followed by bricklayers and concrete workers (8.6 per cent), electroplating workers (6.7 per cent) and milkers (6.4 per cent).
(7) Electroplated samples are counted in any one of 96 detectors.
(8) Finally, Ni was electroplated onto copper discs from an ammonium sulfate medium at high pH.
(9) The effect of electroplating factory effluent in different concentrations (viz., 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0%) on the germination and growth of hyacinth beans (Dolichos lablab) and mustard seeds (Brassica compestris) was studied.
(10) It was observed that the workers engaged in non-dusty occupations such as brass sheet cutting and engraving showed the lowest prevalence of the disease (5.0%) while those engaged in the dusty occupations viz., casting, soldering, electroplating and polishing showed the highest prevalence (12.0%).
(11) Nuclides of Am, Pu and U are separated from the sample matrix by anion exchange and are electroplated on a stainless steel disc (Gautier and Gladney 1986).
(12) Adhesions of 4-META resin to three other surface states--as-polished, oxidized at high temperature, and electroplated tin--were also performed for comparison with the adhesion on Adlloy-modified surfaces.
(13) The plates, made by electroplating a thin layer of copper onto flat brass shims, were gripped between the thumb and the index finger.
(14) Nickel subsulfide (Ni3S2), nickel sulfate (NiSO4), and nickel oxide (NiO) are encountered occupationally in the nickel refining and electroplating industries, with inhalation being a common route of exposure.
(15) In an attempt to obtain information about structural changes related to electrical activity in Electrophorus electroplates, we have determined the size and time course of the changes in light scattering and in bire-fringence that occur during and after the discharge of the electric organ.2.
(16) radiation in respiratory carcinogenesis, the cytotoxic and transforming potency of 5.5 Me V alpha-particles from electroplated sources of 238Pu were determined using primary cultures of rat tracheal epithelial cells.
(17) Efficacy of routine treatment and lateral electroplating was comparatively assessed in 60 females with a history of habitual abortion.
(18) The processes were open tank and enclosed tank degreasing with trichloroethylene (TCE), chromium conversion coating, and chromium electroplating.
(19) Elevated concentrations of nickel are observed in urine specimens from nickel-exposed workers, including nickel electroplating workers (mean = 27 micrograms per L, range = 3.1 to 82 micrograms per L, N = 19) and nickel battery workers (mean = 32 micrograms per L, range = 2.8 to 103 micrograms per L, N = 7).
(20) Determinations of urinary chromium on 26 workers from 6 chromium electroplating workshops are presented and discussed in relation with results of airborne chromium.
Purification
Definition:
(n.) The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.
(n.) The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.
(n.) A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.
Example Sentences:
(1) During enzyme purification two nucleases were identified.
(2) Change of steps in achieved just by varying the reaction conditions without any product purification.
(3) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(4) Stable factor-dependent B-cell hybridomas were used to monitor the purification of the growth factor from the supernatant of a clonotypically stimulated mouse helper T-cell clone.
(5) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(6) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
(7) A rapid method is described for the purification and analysis of synthetic oligonucleotides, based on reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.
(8) The influence of exogenous mitogens (RFG, TGF beta 1 and insulin) and autocrine factor (at different step of purification) on the growth of Morris hepatoma 7777 (MH) cells was estimated by both methods.
(9) In a previous publication the purification and properties of two protein kinases (KI and KII) from a soluble fraction of bovine corpus luteum and the stimulation of the latter fol.
(10) for 48 h followed by Leydig cell isolation and purification resulted in a decrease in the maxima of hCG-induced cAMP accumulation and testosterone production by approximately 70% and approximately 55%, respectively, when compared to cells of control mice.
(11) These plasmids allow expression of native or truncated forms of the enzyme and easy purification of the products.
(12) The enzyme extracted from strains containing the recombinant plasmid was identical to N. crassa catabolic dehydroquinase by the criteria of heat stability, ammonium sulfate fractionation, immunological crossreactivity, molecular weight, and purification characteristics.
(13) Three triacetinases (A, B and C) were shown to undergo reciprocal conversions under storage and during some purification procedures (effect of pH, ionic strength, ion-exchange chromatography, concentration, lyophilization, etc.).
(14) Sindbis virus nucleocapsids were isolated from mature virions by a two-step purification method.
(15) The major scrapie prion protein, designated PrP 27-30, exhibited both charge and size heterogeneity after purification from infected hamster brains.
(16) We have used this procedure successfully during the purification of epidermal glycoproteins.
(17) The purification and concentration of these viruses in their monomeric forms is hazardous when conventional "tube" rotors are used since they invariably result in dissociation and aggregation of the virus particles.
(18) These methods can be applied to the purification and characterization of the as yet undefined secretory and circulating forms of PTHrP.
(19) The possibility that mammalian DNA topoisomerase II is an intracellular target which mediates drug-induced DNA breaks is supported by the following studies using 4'-(9-acridinylamino)methane-sulfon-m-anisidide (m-AMSA): (a) a single m-AMSA-dependent DNA cleavage activity copurified with calf thymus DNA topoisomerase II activity at all chromatographic steps of the enzyme purification; (b) m-AMSA-induced DNA cleavage by this purified activity resulted in the covalent attachment of protein to the 5'-ends of the DNA via a tyrosyl phosphate bond.
(20) These experiments may provide the basis for the expanded use of immobilized lectins for purification and characterization of hydrolases and other glycoproteins.