(n.) Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sample processing, isolation of fat from milk, meat, organs, fat tissue and eggs, and separation of PCB from fats using the sorbents Florisil or Ekosorb (a new Czechoslovak sorbent based on modified silica gel, Kavalier Glassworks, Votice) are described in detail.
(2) Only a small and insignificant excess of brain cancer death was found among glassworkers when compared with the rest of the population in the area.
(3) Excess lung cancer risks furthermore were seen for Finish miners, for Finnish males in excavation work, and for Danish glassworkers.
(4) So high a vegetable contamination is due to objectionable location of the "Podzamcze" employees' plots of gardens in Szczytna, related to the close vicinity of the "Sudety" Glassworks, wind rose and traffic arteries.
(5) Because of discharges, mainly of lead, from glassworks in an otherwise rural and unpolluted area in southeast Sweden the population became concerned about the potential risks of cancer and an epidemiological study was requested.
(6) The grouping of glassworks employees according to type of metal consumption at the glassworks showed the excess risks of stomach cancer, colon cancer, and cardiovascular deaths to relate to glassworks with a high consumption of lead, arsenic, antimony, and manganese.
(7) The total and the specific cancer mortality in the three parishes around the glassworks were found to be approximately normal, both by comparison with national death rates and the death rates of another, similarly rural, area.
(8) At the Other Voices festival in February, Gallagher played a hurricane of a homecoming concert in a long-disused church that's now a venue called the Glassworks, then another to inaugurate Ebrington Square beside the barracks from which the killers of the British Parachute Regiment launched the Bloody Sunday massacre, and to which they returned afterwards.
(9) The highly raised urinary arsenic concentrations for the chemical workers, in particular, and some glassworkers are shown to correspond to possible atmospheric concentrations in the workplace and intakes in excess of, or close to, recommended and statutory limits and those associated with inorganic arsenic related diseases.
(10) The objective of these studies was to examine the lead and flurorine contents in vegetables and apples exposed to emission of these elements by the "Sudety" Glassworks in Szczytna (Wałbrzych voivodeship).
(11) Indications of an increased risk of brain cancer in some, but not all, epidemiologic studies on glassworkers inspired further investigations in a geographically restricted region where the Swedish glass industry is located.
(12) Besides glassworkers, especially farmers, but also other occupational groups had an increased risk of brain cancer that suggested the possibility of an environmental factor affecting the whole population in the region.
(13) Glassworks producing heavy crystal glass usually had higher concentrations of lead in the air than the semi-crystal glassworks.
(14) An earlier, relatively small case-referent study has shown an increased risk for glassworks employees to die from stomach cancer, lung cancer, and cardiovascular disorders.
(15) More interesting results, however, were obtained in several case-referent studies also undertaken to study mortality from specific cancer sites and cardiovascular disease with regard to employment in the glassworks.
(16) A cohort of 625 male, art glassworkers with employment of more than one month for some time between 1964 and 1985 was studied with regard to causes of death and cancer incidence.
(17) There was no significant effect on B-Pb and U-As related to parents working at the glassworks or consumption of domestically grown vegetables.
(18) Fluorine and lead were determined by spectroscopic methods in some vegetables harvested in 1988 in two groups of Employees' Gardens in Inowrocław ("Transportowiec" and "Irena", distant from the Household Glassworks "Irena" by ca.
(19) However, when the brain cancer mortality of the glassworkers was compared with that of the whole Swedish population, a rather high risk was found, but an equally high risk was also seen for the rest of the population in this region when compared with national figures.
(20) Metallic compounds and other agents used in the manufacturing of glass are probably responsible for the cancer risks observed for glassworkers, especially glassblowers.
Glasswort
Definition:
(n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
Example Sentences:
(1) As was shown using the acetylene technique, the nitrogenase activity of Rhizobium meliloti and Rhizobium vigna increased when they were cultivated with the root tissue cultures of legumes (lucerne, sweetclover) and non-legumes (tobacco, glasswort, carrot), particularly in the case of the former.