(n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
(n.) To smoke; to perfume.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples of raw cereals imported in Italy and of other foodstuffs that can be treated with bromine-containing fumigants were analysed for the total bromide content.
(2) The third one concern post-operation days: cubicle initial fumigation, high efficiency filtration and positive pressure air, strict protective insulation, single-use things, controlled food, specific anti viral prevention, catheters and tubes removal or replacement.
(3) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(4) Methyl bromide is commonly used as a soil fumigant in greenhouses.
(5) The recent trends in the possible use of irradiation as an alternative treatment to chemical fumigants for disinfestation of citrus and avocados and the prospects for the future application of irradiation for preservation of some of these fruits are outlined.
(6) Methyl bromide is a nearly odorless, volatile hydrocarbon used as a fumigant in the food industry.
(7) A field trial was conducted near Kelowna, British Columbia, to determine the effect of biological treatments alone and in combination with formalin fumigation in apple replant disease soil.
(8) Mononuclear lymphocytes were isolated from the blood of 12 individuals, who had been exposed to the vapour of the soil fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene (DCP).
(9) To examine whether long term occupational exposure to ethylene dibromide (EDB) affects semen quality a cross sectional study of semen quality was conducted among 46 men employed in the papaya fumigation industry in Hawaii, with an average duration of exposure of five years and a geometric mean breathing zone exposure to airborne EDB of 88 ppb (eight hour time weighted average) and peak exposures of up to 262 ppb.
(10) Methyl bromide and bromide ion concentrations were estimated in pasta manufactured before and after fumigation with methyl bromide.
(11) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.
(12) Guidelines are offered along with a procedural checklist for the investigation of tent fumigation deaths.
(13) The fumigator used 15 kg of methyl bromide (2 cylinders), a quantity far greater than usual.
(14) Various measures for controlling it in the tissue culture laboratory are briefly discussed, such as use of antifungal antibiotics, fumigation with formaldehyde and heat sterilisation of the incubator.
(15) A procedure based on extraction, column chromatography and precipitation is described for the separation of ethylene oxide-1,2-14C fumigated coca-powder derivatives in 9 different groups.
(16) Following removal of polyethylene sheets covering soil fumigated with methyl bromide, four field-workers developed fatigue and light-headedness and 3 workers noted progressive respiratory, gastrointestinal (GI), and neurologic symptoms.
(17) The cases described provide a model for the investigation of tent fumigation deaths.
(18) Analysis of methyl bromide was carried out directly on the food products without preliminary extraction of fumigant.
(19) Preliminary experiments with other fumigants were carried out as well.
(20) Bacteria and virus used in the experiments, as well as air-borne organisms in the house, were perfectly inactivated by fumigation for 24 hours at the level of formalin mentioned above.
Smudge
Definition:
(n.) A suffocating smoke.
(n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
(n.) That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
(v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
(v. t.) To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common microscopic features included dense marrow fibrosis or "scar" formation, a sprinkling of lymphocytes in a relative absence of other inflammatory cells (especially histiocytes), and smudged, nonresorbing necrotic bone flakes.
(2) Peripheral blood smears from old NZB mice show an increase in circulating lymphocytes and "smudged" or ruptured cells, often seen in human CLL.
(3) On light microscopy, "rosette" and "smudge" cells were seen in these cases, and two patterns of virus particle distribution in infected cells were seen ultrastructurally.
(4) With Kitade sporting teased hair, dark, smudged makeup, ropes and an arm piercing, it's safe to assume her music will also take a turn for the darker.
(5) Smudging of Z-bands and diffuse dilatation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, although occasionally diffuse and massive, were often found in otherwise normal muscle fibres and were rarely observed in severely atrophic ones.
(6) Renal tubular cells exhibit eccentric nuclei, with smudged chromatine, and round, refringent cytoplasmic vacuoles.
(7) The occurrence of smudge, as it is often called, is not very common, but is brought to the attention of most jewelers from time to time.
(8) Inkjet tends to be cheaper than laser, but the ink can smudge.
(9) There are dark smudges under her eyes, and she looks both wound up with adrenaline, and exhausted.
(10) Four distinct but aspecific patterns of omental pathology were identified with CT: omental caking; finely infiltrated fat with a "smudged" appearance; discrete nodules; cystic masses.
(11) Autopsy revealed an extensive necrotizing bronchiolitis and alveolitis with frequent "smudge cells."
(12) The sharp stick is now there and a little while ago I found myself high up it, wondering at a 60-mile-wide sweep in which I could see Southend-on-Sea in one direction and Ascot in the other, or, rather, smudges I was told were these pleasure grounds of poor and rich.
(13) It was the first of the khamseen , a dust-filled wind that sweeps in from the Sahara each spring, blurring the streets and skies into a single ochre smudge.
(14) A sheet of paper filled with statistics, A certificate with smudged footprints, A tiny bracelet engraved "Girl, Smith."
(15) We conclude that in the presence of smudge cells, leukocyte counts can be made as reliably by automated methods as by pipette and chamber technics.
(16) The overheating of the instruments is considered to be the main cause and the plastic materials smudges and unstable fixing of the diamond grains--as accompanying causes.
(17) It was histopathologically demonstrated that necrobiotic tubular cells had inclusion-bearing cells of three types: "smudge cells," Cowdry A intranuclear inclusion cells, and full-type intranuclear-containing cells.
(18) The smears showed cells containing nuclear inclusions with radiated strands ("rosette" cells), large homogeneously-staining nuclei ("smudge" cells) and nuclei with a "honeycomb" appearance.
(19) The classic appearance is that of milk of calcium, seen as linear, curvilinear, or teacup-shaped particles on horizontal-beam lateral views and as ill-defined smudges on vertical-beam craniocaudal views.
(20) Other presentations include milk of calcium within microcysts in a unilateral, clustered distribution; milk of calcium within macrocysts; sandlike calcifications (discrete particles rather than smudges on craniocaudal view) within cysts of various sizes; and rarely, milk of calcium within the lipid cysts of either fat necrosis or galactoceles.