(n.) Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
(2) This is a report on a male patient of 71 years of age who had been a graphite mill worker for about 14 years.
(3) The concentration of gold in whole blood was determined using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
(4) As subcritical crack velocities under cyclic loading were found to be many orders of magnitude faster than those measured under equivalent monotonic loads and to occur at typically 45% lower stress-intensity levels, cyclic fatigue in pyrolytic carbon-coated graphite is reasoned to be a vital consideration in the design and life-prediction procedures of prosthetic devices manufactured from this material.
(5) A 5-year-old boy had an excisional biopsy of a pigmented scleral lesion thought clinically to be a foreign body, probably graphite from a pencil.
(6) A membrane-free glucose sensor was made by covalent immobilization of glucose oxidase on graphite followed by adsorption of N-methyl-phenazinium ion (PMS+).
(7) Stearate-modified graphite paste recording electrodes were acutely or chronically implanted into the nucleus accumbens along with bipolar stimulating electrodes in the ipsilateral ventral tegmental area (VTA).
(8) I describe a micro-scale method for determining lead in whole blood by utilizing a graphite furnace.
(9) The reconstituted acid mixture is injected into the graphite tube atomizer for analysis of Cu and Cd and aspirated into the air--acetylene flame for measurement of Zn.
(10) A spokesman said Graphite had “received no income or interest payments, or proceeds of any kind, from its investment in City & County”.
(11) Tissue reactivity to carbon cloth, graphite cloth and vitreous carbon in the solid was studied in dogs.
(12) The mercury-graphite electrode was also checked in respect of both the plating time and the amount of analyses performed.
(13) Tritium retention noted in graphite tiles underscores the significance of material selection in present and future 3H-fueled fusion devices.
(14) The resolution of the enantiomers of three closely related benzodiazepines, temazepam, oxazepam and lorazepam, is attempted on three new column systems: cellulose triacetate, beta-cyclodextrin and the reversed-phase column porous graphitic carbon with beta-cyclodextrin as a mobile phase additive.
(15) For some metals the analysis can be directly achieved by means of atomisation of the biological liquid in a flame or in a graphite furnace; for other metals it is necessary a treatment of the sample to separate the metal from the rest of the matrix, which can be: calcination, microcalcination, mining.
(16) A new grade of graphite-isotropic, fine-grained, and of superior strength-has been produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
(17) We believe that the introduction of high-performance background correction such as Smith-Hieftje, delayed atomization techniques, and aerosol deposition have taken graphite furnace AAS into its third phase.
(18) Zinc was analyzed by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry, and the other elements by graphite furnace atomic absorption.
(19) An analysis of the product of interaction of a sample of native DNA with a large pyrolytic graphite electrode in the presence of formaldehyde at approximately neutral pH did not prove changes in the secondary structure of native DNA due to its interaction with the graphite electrode.
(20) Alternatively, a 50-mu-l sample of blood or erythrocytes is treated with 50 mu-l of concentrated nitric acid and a 1.5-mu-l aliquot is analyzed with use of the graphite tube.
Kish
Definition:
(n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1956, Kish found "dense granules" in the atrial walls of guinea pigs.
(2) "The beautiful seaside in Kish [Island]," the younger woman wrote.
(3) A first experiment found no lexical shifts between the categorization functions of word-final fricatives in pairs such as fish-fiss and kish-kiss.
(4) We also discuss the possibility that chromatin protein kinase occurs in stable complexes with its phosphate-accepting substrates, as has been suggested by the findings of other [Kish, V.M.
(5) The larger protein is the same size as that previously reported to be associated with poly(A)-rich sequences in HeLa heterogeneous nuclear RNA (Kish, V.M., and Pederson, T. (1975), J. Mol.
(6) This pattern of depletion parallels the previously reported loss of dopamine in these brain regions (Kish, Shannak, and Hornykiewicz, New Engl.
(7) In 1982, Kish reported that CF-therapy, the combination of cisplatin and 5-FU, had a high curative rate (about 82%).
(8) That the use of continuous-infusion drug delivery can enhance antitumor activity and limit toxicity for patients with recurrent or metastatic SCCHN was convincingly demonstrated by Kish and co-workers132 in a randomized trial of cisplatin with either bolus or continous-infusion 5-fluourouracil.
(9) Kish, who is from Benghazi, blamed the attack on hardline jihadists.
(10) Epidemiological studies were carried out among 180 randomly chosen settler and 180 non-settler households in the three resettlement schemes of Kishe, Gera and Didessa located in river valleys and highland areas of Illubabor Administrative Region in western Ethiopia.
(11) The place [consulate] is totally destroyed, the whole building is on fire," said Mohammed El Kish, a former press officer with the National Transitional Council, which handed power to an elected parliament last month.
(12) No human trypanosomiasis cases were found but high livestock mortality was reported by local populations in the lowland schemes of Kishe and Didessa.
(13) The absence of an age-related ordering in the regenerated optic nerve was demonstrated by labelling a few axon bundles intraorbitally with HRP (Easter, Rusoff & Kish, 1981) caudal to the previous cut.
(14) Using the approximate variance of the ratio mean (Kish, 1965), shown here to be a good estimator of the sample variance of the humerofemoral index, the analysis of this modern sample extrapolated to other living hominoids gives quite acceptable results.
(15) This required an extension of the approach described by Kish (Survey Sampling.