(v. t.) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
(v. t.) The material for glaze of pottery.
(v. t.) To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
(v. t.) To fritter; -- with away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The electrode consisted of a glass column in which the polymer was packed and where the end frits constituted the electrodes.
(2) Two means are described for achieving hydrodynamic relaxation and thus avoiding the stopflow injection procedure in field-flow fractionation (FFF): split flow injection and frit inlet injection.
(3) A Millipore filter was used in place of the ordinary fritted disc to facilitate rapid achievement of steady state in the diaphragm.
(4) He knew that if he backed away from calling an election, he'd be accused of turning 'frit' - to use that quaint old Lincolnshire word of Margaret Thatcher's - in the face of the opinion polls and a resurgent Conservative party.
(5) The generator column is a borosilicate glass tube with 30 microns fused glass frit containing 0.75 ml AG1X8 anion exchange resin.
(6) The pressurized gas exited through the pores of the glass frit and shattered the thin liquid film flowing on the surface of the thimble-shaped device to form small droplets.
(7) was inserted against the end-frit of the column and brought through a mixing tee, in which the solutions of TCPO and hydrogen peroxide were added.
(8) It’s not for one party to grandly tell everybody else what’s going to happen.” He offered to stand in for the prime minister in a head-to-head with Miliband: “If David Cameron is too busy and too important to defend he record of this government, then I offer myself.” The former Liberal Democrat leader and chair of the party’s election campaign, Paddy Ashdown, accused Cameron of being “frit” and pointed out that the debate proposed by Downing Street would be held before the Conservative party had published its election manifesto.
(9) The apparatus, designed for solid-phase peptide synthesis, consists of a round-bottom flask, rocked on a wrist-shaker, and fitted with a special dropping funnel and a fritted filter disc embedded within the flask.
(10) A spokesman for Community said: “The delegation from Community led by Roy Rickhuss, general secretary, along with Stephen Kinnock, MP for Aberavon, and Frits van Wieringen, chairman of the Tata Steel European Works Council, met in Mumbai with senior representatives of Tata Steel in advance of the board meeting.
(11) Atmospheric air samples are collected in fritted midget bubblers containing aqueous sodium carbonate solution; wastewater samples are treated directly with sodium carbonate.
(12) In addition, the frits have specifically been found to be a significant contributor to irreversible protein loss--particularly when protein sample sizes are on the order of 1 microgram or less.
(13) Varley, who handed the top job to Bob Diamond in January 2011, had an executive committee of six colleagues which did "not develop a cohesive team at the top", putting Diamond in charge of the investment bank and Frits Seegers – who left in 2009 – in charge of the retail bank where he instilled a "culture of fear".
(14) Four types of hydrosol filters, two reusable (diatomaceous cylinder and fritted-glass funnel) and two disposable (asbestos pad and membrane filter) were challenged with a heavy bacterial suspension to assess their ability to produce sterile filtrates.
(15) A resolution of this dilemma may possibly be found in the recent observations of Dr. Frits Orskov [20] and others discussed elsewhere at this meeting that the K and O serotypes appear to be interrelated.
(16) A thimble-shaped glass frit nebulizer has been developed for atomic spectrometry.
(17) In order to separate and identify microcystins, a new analytical method was developed using a frit probe as an interface for fast atom bombardment mass spectral analysis of high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) effluents.
(18) Use of an on-column frit structure, constructed by sintering a mixture of glass powders, makes it possible to ground a fused-silica capillary on its side prior to its outlet.
(19) Several miniaturized glass-frit nebulizers are investigated as interfaces between the output of the microbore column and the ICP torch.
(20) Sequence-specific ions observed in the Frit-FAB mass spectra of these tryptic peptides were identical with those commonly observed in high-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) spectra and included side-chain fragment ions that differentiated leucine from isoleucine.
Friz
Definition:
(v. t.) To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.
(v. t.) To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
(v. t.) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
(n.) That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle.
Example Sentences:
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