What's the difference between fluor and fluorspar?

Fluor


Definition:

  • (n.) A fluid state.
  • (n.) Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses.
  • (n.) See Fluorite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fluor preparations are effective agents to remove dentinal hypersensitivity.
  • (2) Of 10 age groups ten times a lower percental frequency of fractures in combination with an increased presence of fluor was found.
  • (3) Dexamethasone (1,4-pregnadiene-9-fluor-16alpha-methyl-11beta,17alpha,21-triol-3,20-dione), a potent synthetic glucocorticoid, stimulates mouse mammary tumor virus expression 10- to 20-fold in tissue culture cells.
  • (4) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
  • (5) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
  • (6) The amounts of Fon acquired by the enamel surface (one application) rank as APF gel approximately Duraphat much less than Fluor Protector.
  • (7) The Fiax procedure is less time consuming than is the Immuno-Fluor and gives IgG and IgA concentrations that are in close agreement with those found by radial immunodiffusion and IgM values that are significantly lower than the radial immunodiffusion values.
  • (8) Moderate losses of peripheral microvilli, with mild superficial cellular desquamation was noted with 0.25 per cent phospholine iodide, 2 per cent pilocarpine, 2 per cent fluorescein, and Fluor-I-Strip.
  • (9) In pure subcultured colonies and in isolated colonies from primary culture plates, the Strep-A-Fluor system had 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity compared with the results of Streptex latex agglutination (Wellcome Research Laboratories, Research Triangle Park, NC).
  • (10) The mixed-phase assay is based on the inability of the polar [3H]-acetyl-Coenzyme A (CoA) substrate to partition out of a urea containing aqueous phase into the nonpolar scintillation fluor, while the [3H]chloramphenicol reaction products partition into the toluene scintillation fluor and are quantitated by scintillation counting.
  • (11) With empty professional anamnesis as cause was found the presence of a chronic renal insufficiency with simultaneously increased fluor content of drinking water.
  • (12) Above all, they document the necessity of the simultaneous prescription of at least 500 mg of calcium in the treatment of osteoporosis with estrogens, fluor, calcitonin and bisphosphonates.
  • (13) The present study constitutes a demonstration that the glomerular capillary epithelial cell bears this receptor, detectable with either EAC complexes (EAC1423b) or fluores ceinated zymosan-C3 (ZC3b) complexes, Fresh, unfixed frozen sections of normal or diseased human kidneys, mechanically isolated human glomeruli, dissociated glomerular cells, and glomeruli and golmerular cells maintained in tissue culture were examined with various EAC complexes or ZC3b and examined by phase light microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, or transmission and scanning electron microscopy.
  • (14) The technique uses liquid scintillation counting to record 14CO2 accumulation on a fluor-impregnated filter paper within a double-chambered scintillation vial that also houses the bacterial growth medium.
  • (15) Nevertheless reduction in caries incidence were reported in regions with regular administration of fluoride either via fluoridated salts' or fluoride tablets or by means of topical application of fluor.
  • (16) In 12 fasting volunteers, the pharmacokinetics of ciprofloxacin (Bay o 9867; 1-cyclopropyl-6-fluor-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-7-(1-piperazinyl)-3-quinoline carbonic acid) were determined after the administration of 50, 100, and 750 mg orally as well as 50 and 100 mg intravenously over 15 min.
  • (17) This investigation was performed to evaluate, comparatively, the effect of topical application of Duraphat, Flulak, Fluor-Protector, Bifluorid 12, Profilac, Fluoro-gel-P and Fluocal-gel.
  • (18) Smears merely withdrawn from the urethra are, therefore, the least appropriate ones for fluor or for identification of a urogenital mycoplasmosis of the female genitals.
  • (19) In the present study the general pharmacological properties of ethyl-N-[2-amino-6-(4-fluor-phenylmethylamino)pyridin-3-yl]carbama te (flupirtine, D 9998), a structural new analgesic, are described.
  • (20) This filling was found to have great advantages over both classical fillings and the composite materials alone, because it chemically binds to dentin, exerts a marked caries-protective effect through a continuous release of fluor ions, and provides the best esthetic effect in combination with composite materials (when necessary).

Fluorspar


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The urinary fluoride concentrations of workers exposed to calcium fluoride (CaF2) during fluorspar processing were measured.
  • (2) These results indicate that the low aqueous solubility of fluorspar reduced the biologic availability of the fluoride ion but that this did not prevent excessive fluoride absorption in some workers.
  • (3) The rate in one census division was higher (63 vs 53) most probably because of the higher risk of men who worked in the St. Lawrence fluorspar mines.
  • (4) The filtration efficiencies of respirator filters and filtering facepieces have been tested against radon daughters in a fluorspar mine.
  • (5) This paper reviews the problem of radiation-induced carcinoma of the lung in the fluorspar mines of Newfoundland.
  • (6) A cohort study of the mortality experience (1950-1984) of 1,772 Newfoundland underground fluorspar miners occupationally exposed to high levels of radon daughters (mean dose = 382.8 working levels months) has been conducted.
  • (7) Although all studies have some deficiencies, those of major importance include uranium miners in Saskatchewan, Canada, Swedish iron miners, and Newfoundland fluorspar miners.
  • (8) A study was conducted in a fluorspar milling plant to assess the effectiveness of tracer gases as a reliable supplement to conventional air-monitoring and ventilation measurements.
  • (9) A combined epidemiological and clinical study of vibration-induced white finger (VWF) was carried out involving 115 men in four fluorspar mines.
  • (10) There was poor correlation between intensity of environmental exposure to fluorspar and postshift fluoride concentration in the urine.

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