What's the difference between glassy and vitrified?
Glassy
Definition:
(a.) Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.
(a.) Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
(a.) Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(2) Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) was covalently attached to an electron-conducting support, i.e., glassy carbon.
(3) The second, with amphibole or glassy fibres, is mediated by fibronectin which first binds to the fibre.
(4) The glassy cell carcinoma is considered to be a poorly differentiated mixed adenosquamous carcinoma.
(5) From these studies, it was suggested that the inelastic behavior of bioactive glass-ceramics was produced by the plastic deformation of glassy phase on the grain boundary.
(6) They tricked us.” When Morales speaks of it his eyes turn glassy.
(7) Its mechanical behaviour when dry is that of a glassy polymer with tensile strength about 300 MPa and modulus about 20 GPa.
(8) Cell lines were established from two uterine cervical cancers, a glassy cell carcinoma (GCC) and a large cell nonkeratinizing squamous cell carcinoma (LCSC), and studied by a variety of techniques, including histology, chromosome analysis, heterotransplantation and tumor marker analyses.
(9) In KGS and A-W.GC, which had macrocrystals in the glassy phase, an intervening apatite layer about 0.5 micron thick was observed between the materials and bone.
(10) When bimodal therapy with radical surgery and radical radiotherapy was used, the survival of patients with Stage IB glassy cell carcinoma improved to 87%.
(11) No significant association between HPV status and prognosis or glassy cell features was detected.
(12) We have developed a new type of glassy carbon electrode whose smooth surface with scattered craters reduces its polarization voltage.
(13) The detection system consists of two electrochemical detector cells aligned in series: a glassy-carbon electrode for catecholamines and serotonin, and a platinum electrode for acetylcholine and choline.
(14) The cytopathologic and histopathologic findings are presented for five cases of glassy-cell carcinoma.
(15) Further, the apparent "tightly bound" state, observed at low relative humidities, appears to exist when the polymer enters into a very viscous glassy state.
(16) Photo-switchable ion and enzyme sensors were fabricated by the use of glassy carbon electrode coated with nonactindoped or enzyme modified poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) membranes.
(17) And if that sentence leaves you glassy-eyed, we'll do our best to explain it as things proceed.
(18) Eighteen cases of glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix are presented.
(19) In lesional catagen follicles, the glassy membranes showed marked convolution and thickening.
(20) A method is proposed for the determination of paracetamol in whole undiluted blood, based on the enzymatic hydrolysis of the drug to p-aminophenol, which is then measured by chronoamperometry at a glassy carbon electrode.
Vitrified
Definition:
(a.) Converted into glass.
(imp. & p. p.) of Vitrify
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that freeze-concentration induced by heating a vitrified solution can cause less perturbations of a protein than does quenching into a freeze-concentrated state.
(2) Accordingly, it may be desirable to maintain vitrified biological systems at temperatures sufficiently below Tg so that the extent of relaxation in the glass system is avoided or minimized during cryopreservation.
(3) It is based on the preparation of ultrathin frozen sections of fixed tissues, rinsing of the sections, followed by their embedding on the grid in a layer of vitrified ice, and direct observation with a cryoelectron microscope.
(4) In hydrated, vitrified cryo-sections, chromosomes exhibit a characteristic homogeneous, grainy texture, which, on optical diffraction, gives rise to a broad reflection corresponding to 11 nm.
(5) The solid states formed by vitrified and frozen aqueous solutions of some hydrophilic polymers, able to act as biological cryoprotectants, have been studied by differential scanning calorimetry and freeze fracture electron microscopy.
(6) The results obtained with vitrified thin films were interpreted in relation to the principles of thin-film formation.
(7) The survival rate of morulae vitrified after removal of the mucin coat was lower than that of mucin-intact embryos.
(8) Applications to negatively stained 50S ribosomes and to cryo-electron micrographs of thin vitrified layers of unstained and unsupported tomato bushy stunt and Semliki Forest viruses are described, and the resulting reconstructions are presented.
(9) 250000 sq.cm of vitrified skin stored for one to two years were used in 135 operations for major full thickness burns after tangential excision or excision of eschar.
(10) In the amide I spectral region of carbonyl hemoglobin (HbCO), a band at approximately 1654 cm-1 due to alpha-helical structures is the dominant band in spectra recorded at ambient temperature and in the vitrified state, but in the spectrum of HbCO quenched at similar rates into a freeze-concentrated state, a band at approximately 1650 cm-1, tentatively assigned to unordered structures, becomes the dominant feature.
(11) A high proportion of vitrified oocytes was fertilized in vitro (84-94%), 80 to 87% of which were normal.
(12) Embryos were exposed in three steps to a stock VS1 solution or a saline solution containing 90% of the cryoprotectants in the stock VS1 (90% VS1) and then the suspensions were vitrified by rapid cooling in liquid nitrogen.
(13) Materials responding to the demands of biocompatibility are certain forms of porcelain, vitrified carbon, titanium, calcium aluminate.
(14) He cites another case, in which a rabbit brain was vitrified and then thawed, appearing structurally intact – although the brain was first set in a formaldehyde-like substance, that would rule out it ever functioning as a living organ in the future.
(15) The structure of the virus was compared with cryo-electron microscopic data of vitrified suspensions observed to a resolution of 1.15 nm.
(16) The interaction of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase with supercoiled DNA was visualized by cryo-electron microscopy of vitrified samples and by classical electron microscopy methods.
(17) A system has been developed that ensures that a liquid or partially liquid specimen is maintained in its original state while it is being prepared before vitrification and, once prepared, is vitrified with little alteration of its microstructure.
(18) The structure of these crystals was examined by electron crystallography, using three different media to preserve high-resolution detail: vitrified water, glucose and tannin.
(19) In principle, good preservation of native structure may be achieved with fast freezing, followed by low-dose electron imaging of unstained vitrified cryosections.
(20) From these suspensions thin films were prepared at various temperatures, and vitrified for low temperature observation.