What's the difference between ferruginous and rust?

Ferruginous


Definition:

  • (a.) Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
  • (a.) Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In some connective-tissue cells ferruginous micelles were found in the mitochondrial matrix.
  • (2) As the number of ferruginous bodies increased, neutrophils and T lymphocytes decreased, but B lymphocytes increased.
  • (3) Simultaneously with iron uptake, mitochondria differentiate to lamellated bodies and, successively, expansions rise for ferruginous compounds and G polypeptides gathering, followed by prehemosome vesicles formation, which condense and change to prohemosomes that afterwards evolve to hemosomes.
  • (4) A new method of preparing ferruginous (asbestos) bodies for electron-optical examination is described.
  • (5) Ferruginous bodies and microliths were also associated in this case.
  • (6) Histological slides from the lungs of 89 dead asbestos cement workers have been examined with respect to ferruginous bodies and fibrosis.
  • (7) These included microcephaly, white matter atrophy with patchy loss of myelinated fibers, calcifications of the basal ganglia, occasional ferrugination of cerebral and cerebellar neurons, and severe cerebellar degeneration.
  • (8) Lesions obtained in human beings could be reproduced in rats subjected to intratracheal injection of arsenic containing ore dust, which was prepared in order to study the deposition, dissociation and release of inhaled less-soluble arsenic containing ors dust in the lungs and the process of development of different ferruginous bodies.
  • (9) Ferruginous bodies have been found in the sputa of 187 (33%) workers.
  • (10) There was no apparent difference in the incidence or quantity of ferruginous bodies between the group with pulmonary neoplasms and the randomly selected group.
  • (11) Clear dose-response relations between exposure (duration of exposure and cumulative asbestos dose) and level of ferruginous bodies were found.
  • (12) The lungs of 100 consecutive patients at autopsy and of 24 patients with various pulmonary neoplasms were analyzed for the presence of ferruginous (asbestos) bodies.
  • (13) Combined studies in tissue sections as well as on digested specimens revealed that the core of a majority of the ferruginous bodies was an iron-rich fiber.
  • (14) No significant association is found between the occurrence of ferruginous bodies and the worker's age, smoking history, degree of cellular epithelial atypia, or time since last exposure.
  • (15) Examination of sputum from 76 current employees showed that only two specimens contained typical ferruginous bodies, confirming low cumulative fibre exposure.
  • (16) All cases had occupational histories of asbestos exposure, but ferruginous bodies in BAL fluid were only detected in 21 of 31 cases.
  • (17) The digested samples from lungs of 2 workers yielded no ferruginous bodies by light microscopy, even though these samples by electron microscopy contained respective loads of 780,000 and 1.2 million uncoated amphibole fibers per gram.
  • (18) The occurrence of ferruginous bodies in sputa is found to increase as a logarithmic function of the length of occupational exposure to asbestos in workdays.
  • (19) More than 90% of both population groups had ferruginous bodies in their lungs.
  • (20) Therefore, the primary site of lung cancer is not dependent on the number of ferruginous bodies.

Rust


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
  • (n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.
  • (n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.
  • (n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
  • (n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
  • (n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
  • (n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
  • (v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
  • (v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
  • (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
  • (v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reasoning in Rust v Sullivan allows government to limit freedom of speech in federally funded programs.
  • (2) Here, abandoned cars don’t just sit and rust, they are swallowed by the jungle.
  • (3) The cause, they claimed, was emissions from the mine's sulphuric acid factory as well as outflow from mountains of rust-red waste, dumped over 15 years with little concern for the environment.
  • (4) The bean rust fungus, Uromyces appendiculatus, undergoes thigmotropic differentiation to produce infection structures.
  • (5) Pain relief is more rapid after electric drill removal; this is probably related to the complete removal of the rust.
  • (6) And no wonder: unemployment in the Garden State is at a 35-year high of 9.8% – the fourth-worst in the nation – and unlike in the Rust Belt states or other hard-hit regions, in Jersey unemployment is still climbing .
  • (7) Hill, who cut an unusual touchline figure in green jacket and rust cords, preferred to praise Wednesday for the quality of their set plays rather than blast his defenders for their inability to defend them.
  • (8) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
  • (9) The rusted bike was found in a large white container where its owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, had kept it.
  • (10) Mr X invested money into buying old equipment from other abandoned coal mines – this was not difficult because abandoned mines with rusting equipment are not in short supply in North Korea today.
  • (11) This week a beachcomber in British Columbia found a moving crate containing a rusting Harley-Davidson motorcycle registered to Japan's Miyagi prefecture, which absorbed the brunt of the tsunami.
  • (12) One white lump sits beside the rusted-out remains of a bucket.
  • (13) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
  • (14) The Trump vote contained rednecks and inhabitants of the rust belt, just as south Wales and Sunderland turned out for Brexit – but in neither case was that the whole story.
  • (15) The best actress award Last year Marion Cotillard's turn in Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone , as a waterpark trainer who loses her legs, was beaten to the best actress award by two troubled nuns in Romanian drama Beyond the Hills.
  • (16) Basidiomycetes, a complex and common group of fungi, which include mushrooms, rusts, smuts, brackets, and puffballs, have not been well studied.
  • (17) Naturally, insider accounts suggest electoral calculation : Trump reckoned that the people who put him in the White House, especially blue collar workers in the rust-belt states, have long seen global warming as a con.
  • (18) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
  • (19) Where other politicians might be accused of dog-whistle politics, Trump was broadcasting at a frequency accessible to all, exploiting the nation’s three biggest weaknesses: rust, race and ignorance.
  • (20) Steel surfaces can be treated with zinc and chromates to prevent the steel from rusting.

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