What's the difference between firestone and pyrite?
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.
Pyrite
Definition:
(n.) A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ultrastructure of rabbit tracheal epithelium was studied 2, 8 and 26 hours after termination of 8-hour inhalation of ground pyrite dust.
(2) Evidence for the direct utilization of the sulphur moiety of pyrite by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans was derived from the following observations: a.
(3) An aerobic facultative thermophilic bacterium was isolated from the ore of the Nikolaev copper-zinc-pyrite deposit in the Eastern Kazakhstan.
(4) A research study was carried out at a pyrite mine in Niccioleta, southern Tuscany, during the period 1980-1983 to investigate the possible effects of gaseous and particulate pollutants on the respiratory function of mine workers.
(5) Wistar rats were injected intratracheally with pyrite particles and after 6 and 12 mo, lungs were evaluated for histological changes.
(6) Pyrite particles persist in the cytoplasm of ciliated cells throughout the interval followed up.
(7) It is proposed that the energy-transducing system of the first cellular organism and its precursor was fueled by the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and ferric sulfide to iron pyrites and two [H+] on the outside surface of a vesicle (the cell membrane), with the concomitant reduction of CO or CO2 on the interior.
(8) A technique was developed for measuring (14)CO(2) uptake by chemolithotrophic bacteria directly in pyritic materials associated with coal and coal refuse.
(9) The cycle is catalytic for pyrite formation and autocatalytic for its own multiplication.
(10) The presence of high concentrations of sulfate, iron, and hydrogen (acid) ions in drainage from coal mines and other areas containing waste pyritic materials is a serious water pollution problem.
(11) The effect of pyrite added to the waste materials before the beginning of leaching has also been examined.
(12) The aforementioned importance is related to the ability of the bacterium to oxidize reduced iron and sulfur, principally found in nature as pyrite (FeS2).
(13) The morphogenesis of Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans BKM B-1269 was studied by electron microscopy at the vegetative stage of growth on a medium with pyrite as the source of energy.
(14) Three species of thermophilic archaebacteria of the genera Sulfolobus (Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and S. solfataricus) and Acidianus (Acidianus brierleyi) were tested for their ability to oxidize pyrite and to grow autotrophically on pyrite, to explore their potential for use in coal desulfurization.
(15) These include: lack of controls while mining is underway; catastrophic events, such as the collapse of a settling dam, lack of site specific understanding of pyrite oxidation processes, particularly those that are biologically enhanced; the need for adequate biological information on which to base decisions to meet biological information on which to base decisions to meet biological objectives.
(16) Ferric, sulfate, and hydrogen ions are produced from pyritic minerals associated with coal as a result of autotrophic bacterial metabolism.
(17) A cohort mortality study was conducted with regard to a pyrite mine located in central Italy.
(18) They were skillful dental surgeons and made prostheses from jade and turquoise and filled teeth with iron pyrite.
(19) Only A. brierleyi was able to oxidize and grow autotrophically on pyrite.
(20) For instance, gold mining in South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin – on which Johannesburg’s economy was founded – has left 120 mines’ worth of pyrite tailings, containing 450,000 tonnes of uranium.