What's the difference between firestone and furnace?
Firestone
Definition:
(n.) Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
(n.) A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their name, National City Lines, sounded innocuous enough, but the list of their investors included General Motors, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and other companies who stood to benefit much more from a future running on gasoline and rubber than on electricity and rails.
(2) At one point I try to relate something she just said to her latest movie, The East , which we are meant to be discussing, and she does a double-take as if to say: "Why do you want me to do movie promotion stuff when we can talk about radical feminist Shulamith Firestone instead?"
(3) Maybe Firestone's ideas need to be taken less literally and more in terms of what they reveal about how society arranges itself around women's fertility.
(4) trans-4-Ethoxycarbonyl-3-ethyl-1-(4-nitrophenyl-sulfonyl)-azetidin -3-one described by Firestone et al.
(5) The conviction came in 1949, with GM, Firestone, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks found guilty and subsequently slapped on the wrists.
(6) After NYT Editorial board editor David Firestone posted the NYT's editorial on Twitter and heralded the speech as "a momentous turning point, making clear an unending state of war is unsustainable," I asked him : "Will it be 'momentous' if it's not followed up with decisive and prompt action?"
(7) Robert Firestone, a resident of Las Vegas, said Clinton had a “stellar” history of backing LGBT rights and income inequality.
(8) Human-biting adults and late instar larvae of the Simulium damnosum complex from four ecologically different simuliid breeding habitats in the Firestone Rubber Plantation at Harbel, Liberia, were identified morphologically and the monthly species composition of each site was recorded.
(9) GR binds selectively to discrete regions of DNA in mouse mammary tumor virus (Payvar, F., DeFranco, D., Firestone, G.L., Edgar, B., Wrange, O., Okret, S., Gustafsson, J.-A., and Yamamoto, K. R. (1983) Cell 35, 381-392).
(10) Plenty of brilliant writers have written about how infighting destroyed feminism's powerful second wave in the 70s, including Nora Ephron in her painful and funny essay Miami about the fight between Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, and, at the more radical end of the spectrum, Susan Faludi's beautiful essay about Shulamith Firestone , published in the New Yorker last year.
(11) There is nothing in today’s outcome that addresses, let alone validates, plain packaging in Australia or anywhere else,” said Marc Firestone, Philip Morris International senior vice president and general counsel.
(12) We have used complement-mediated cytolysis to recover variants of M1.54 that fail to express MTV cell surface glycoproteins in a hormone-regulated manner (Firestone, G.L., and K.R.
(13) Black fly vectors of onchocerciasis from three ecologically different Simuliid breeding habitats in the Firestone Rubber Plantation at Harbel, Liberia, were surveyed by human-biting collections conducted at weekly intervals over a 13-month period.
(14) But on major policy statements or on endorsements of candidates, he knows what the paper is going to say and is frequently consulted – that’s how it should be.” Firestone added: “I don’t know of any publisher who pays no attention to the editorial board on the papers they own.
(15) I'm worried about the terrifying dystopian futures that this will create (or utopian, if you're a fan of Shulamith Firestone, who thought that cybernetics could emancipate women from the oppression of their own biology through creating artificial wombs ).
(16) Lowry carded a flawless final round of 66 at Firestone Country Club to finish 11 under par, two shots ahead of the double Masters champion Bubba Watson , with Justin Rose and Jim Furyk another two shots back after disappointing rounds of 72.
(17) And there were others, such as Renee Firestone, who described the death of the Ovitz dwarves: "The Germans found a community of midgets, transported them to Auschwitz, shot them en masse and then were forced to let them sit in a pile for three days until the crematoria could take them."
(18) A., Patel, R. G., Wong, K. Y., Manula, P. W., Firestone, G. L., Brunetti, A., Verspohl, E., and Goldfine, I. D. (1989) J. Biol.
(19) The women are influenced by the underground American Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990s that addressed issues such as domestic violence, rape and patriarchy; punk bands including Bikini Kill; and feminists, among them Simone de Beauvoir and Shulamith Firestone.
(20) Arthur doesn’t come to every meeting or get involved in every editorial,” said David Firestone, a former member of the Times’s editorial board.
Furnace
Definition:
(n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
(n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
(n.) To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analytically, the major products formed initially from pTFE at 700 degrees C under either condition (flame or cup furnace) are similar but they disappear rapidly in the presence of continuous heat.
(2) The unions said the government can bypass EU state-aid rules by updating Port Talbot’s blast furnaces and claiming it is investment into research and development, skills, and lowering carbon emissions.
(3) The concentration of gold in whole blood was determined using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
(4) Three-dimensional wavelength-absorbance-furnace temperature spectra can be obtained by using ramped heating steps to provide a rough separation of elements in a mixture.
(5) This technique chemically removes organic material from thin sections of tissues with reactive, excited oxygen instead of heat as used in a furnace.
(6) However, where sample size is not a limitation, wet ash digestion prior to determination in the furnace is probably the preferred procedure.
(7) Any hint of Charlotte as a sexual being is tossed on to the historical furnace.
(8) I describe a micro-scale method for determining lead in whole blood by utilizing a graphite furnace.
(9) The value of a procedure for polishing porcelain restorations that would avoid the necessity of glazing in a furnace following minor chairside adjustments is discussed.
(10) Variations in skeletal lead content suggested that the white owners of the Catoctin iron furnace shared little of their food and beverage with their black, male, industrial slaves, but that some of these workers' women had access to the owners' food sources--probably via domestic duty assignments.
(11) The aerosol, with or without water in the furnace, consists of a mixture of copper(I) oxide and copper(II) hydroxide.
(12) In the Netherlands both Portland cement and blast furnace cement (slags from blast furnaces with about 30% Portland cement) are used for concrete.
(13) For some metals the analysis can be directly achieved by means of atomisation of the biological liquid in a flame or in a graphite furnace; for other metals it is necessary a treatment of the sample to separate the metal from the rest of the matrix, which can be: calcination, microcalcination, mining.
(14) When the cup furnace is removed 1 min after pTFE is added (a procedure temporally similar to the use of the flame) the toxicity of the products is again low.
(15) We believe that the introduction of high-performance background correction such as Smith-Hieftje, delayed atomization techniques, and aerosol deposition have taken graphite furnace AAS into its third phase.
(16) Zinc was analyzed by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry, and the other elements by graphite furnace atomic absorption.
(17) Apple has entered into a joint venture in the US with GT Advanced to build plants and furnaces able to produce sapphire in industrial quantities for a “critical component” that it said in trade documents would be shipped abroad for assembly.
(18) The specimen is placed in furnace of microscope, and rised temperature by W heater.
(19) Detector response and conductivity phenomena are discussed in terms of gas-phase furnace chemistry reactions, post-furnace reaction or abstraction processes, and solution-phase ionization and neutralization processes occurring in the conductivity cell.
(20) The best way of sterilization is to make a gypsum model from the hydrocolloid impression and place it in the furnace for 30 min in 60 degrees C.