(a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
(a.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
(n.) A substance dug from the earth.
(n.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
(n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(3) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(4) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
(5) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(6) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(7) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(8) Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers.
(9) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(10) The first report, released last September in Stockholm , found humans were the "dominant cause" of climate change, and warned that much of the world's fossil fuel reserves would have to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change.
(11) The methods described make possible the preparation of fossil samples for light nad transmission electron microscopy.
(12) This would force them to move rapidly away from fossil fuels in just a few years, something which they say is impossible to do given their limited finances and need to improve the lives of their people.
(13) That means eliminating fossil fuel subsidies as well.
(14) The branching pattern derived from the DNA comparisons is congruent with the fossil evidence and supported by comparative biochemical, chromosomal, and morphological studies.
(15) This method ensures the good preservation of spatial relations between bone elements essential for studies of fossil bones, which are sometimes very brittle.
(16) Driven by a desire to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and promote a secure supply of energy, the government of Albania has been very eager to encourage increased investment in renewable energy and in 2013 a law was passed to promote renewable energy .
(17) What the Chinese want is resources, especially fossil fuels.
(18) Each country can discover how much CO2 it emits by calculating the volume of fossil fuels it burns, usually through imports and the tax system.
(19) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(20) ('76), viz., that the fossil is "unique" among Hominoids, is essentially correct.
Pinite
Definition:
(n.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.
(n.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
(n.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Delta Pinit is thought to principally reflect the resistance of the pulmonary airways Raw.
(2) Baltic amber is a fossil resin deposited 36-7 million years ago and one source may be the extinct tree Pinites (Pinus) succinifer.
(3) Delta Pinit has been taken to equal the pressure drop across the pulmonary airways, possibly with a contribution from the tissues of the respiratory system.
(4) Despite the introduction of significant mechanical heterogeneities, delta Pinit still reflected the pressure drop as the result of the resistance of the conducting airways.
(5) Steady-state resistance calculated from the sum of delta Pinit and delta Pdiff was similar to airway resistance calculated from delta Pinit alone.
(6) 65: 408-414, 1988) that in open-chest mongrel dogs, under control conditions, the initial rapid pressure change (delta Pinit) reflects conducting airway resistance and the subsequent gradual pressure change (delta Pdif) reflects stress recovery of the tissues.
(7) The physiological interpretations of delta Pinit and delta Pdif have been somewhat unclear.
(8) The first phase is a very rapid jump, designated delta Pinit, which occurs immediately on interruption of flow.
(9) We found that, in the absence of the chest wall, delta Pinit reflects only the resistance of the airways and that delta Pdif can be ascribed almost entirely to the stress recovery properties of lung tissues.
(10) In all studies, airway pressure rose to equilibrate with alveolar pressure immediately after the interruption (delta Pinit) regardless of increases in airway resistance.
(11) A Moody plot (the Friction coefficient calculated using delta Pinit versus the Reynolds number) had a marked negative slope at Reynolds numbers up to 5 x 10(4), whereas the plot is predicted to have a slope close to zero at Reynolds numbers greater than 4 x 10(3) on the basis of purely fluid dynamic considerations.
(12) The second phase is designated delta Pdif and is a further pressure change in the same direction as delta Pinit but evolving over several seconds.
(13) In the present study we attempted to separate the contributions of airways and tissues to delta Pinit in intact dogs by performing flow interruptions with the lungs full of gas mixtures having different physical properties.
(14) If the flow of gas at the airway opening of a tracheostomized dog is suddenly interrupted during expiration, the airway pressure exhibits a sudden very rapid rise, called delta Pinit, which has been shown previously to equal the resistive pressure drop across the airways in open-chest dogs, and to have a significant additional contribution from the tissues of the chest wall in intact dogs.
(15) Since previously used methods for measuring respiratory system resistance have employed varying combinations of delta Pinit and delta Pdif as the resistive pressure drop, it is clear that measurements of resistance must be made with standard techniques under standard conditions if they are to be compared.
(16) Following airway occlusion one generally sees a rapid change in airway opening pressure, Pinit, which reflects the resistive pressure drop across the system, followed by a secondary, slower pressure change, Pdif, which reflects the tissue visco-elastic properties together with any redistribution of gases occurring between lung units at different pressure at the time of interruption.
(17) delta Pdif became larger than delta Pinit towards the end of expiration.
(18) In general, the pressure signal obtained exhibits an initial rapid change (delta Pinit) accompanied by rapid damped oscillations, followed by a further slow change to a steady-state plateau level.
(19) We used the interrupter technique to measure the resistance Rinit (equal to the initial change delta Pinit in tracheal pressure divided by flow at interruption) during expiration in six normal anaesthetized-paralyzed cats.
(20) Assuming delta Pinit to be the result of a linear dependence of airway resistance on flow and a constant tissue resistance, we were able to account for the negative slope of the Moody plot.