What's the difference between greenish and greensand?
Greenish
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) When pouring liquid nitrogen over the spots, a very intense bluish-white fluorescence followed by a long-lasting greenish phosphorescence is observed.
(2) After incubation for 18 hours at 37 degrees C, the streptococci producing opacity factor showed greenish zones around the colonies or else no haemolysis at all on the plates containing porcine serum, in contrast to a clear betahaemolysis on the control plates.
(3) Majority of the positive cells showed yellow-greenish linear fluorescence surrounding the cell membrane while some cells manifested granular fluorescence.
(4) Mia C51 cells have a doubling time of 12 hr and maintain many of the properties of the parent tumor, including the characteristic greenish color with high myeloperoxidase activity, an an aneuploid chromosomal pattern, and intact tumorigenicity.
(5) The clinical symptoms were slinking between the 50th and 57th day of pregnancy and six-week serosanguinolent discharge or greenish gray mucoid discharge after the abortion and extensive hemorrhages and edemata under the skin of the aborted fetuses.
(6) In studying 48 strains there were revealed three types of fluorescence of the colonies: bright orange with a transition into greenish-light blue along the lower margin (the I type), bright light blue with a narrow orange or green upper margin (the II type) and greyish-light blue colonies (the III type).
(7) In this 42-year-old-man with suspected cholelithiasis the following finding of the serosal surface of the gallbladder was discovered by laparoscopic examination: Smooth serosal elevation, dark-greenish in color in a size of the small bean; No hypervascularity in the surrounding serosa.
(8) Nausea, vomiting, greenish diarrhea, and dehydration occurred shortly thereafter.
(9) S-cone stimulation also appears to be indirectly responsible for yellowish sensations at long wavelengths and, by cancellation of the M-cone blueness signal, for greenish sensations at middle wavelengths.
(10) The normal squamous epithelium includes glycogen that interacts with the iodine of Lugol's solution and the normal epithelium of the esophagus becomes a uniform greenish-brown.
(11) The corn milling industry has widely accepted the presence of bright greenish-yellow fluorescence under a black light as a presumptive indicator of aflatoxin (a poison produced by the mold Aspergillus flavus).
(12) Only two of seven patients with brownish or greenish secretions were positive for both lactose and casein although an additional six patients were positive for casein alone.
(13) They become straw coloured with ammoniacal silver and show greenish fluorescence.
(14) It appeared golden yellow with hematoxylin and eosin and sodium rhodizonate, but it stained greenish blue with Perls' method and dark brown with gallocyanin.
(15) Our study supported the use of bright greenish-yellow fluorescence as a presumptive test for aflatoxin in wheat, oats, barley, corn, and sorghum.
(16) When resting P. stutzeri cells were incubated with 2,3-dimethylphenol, the reaction mixture turned greenish yellow and showed spectral properties identical to those of the 3,4-dimethylcatechol meta ring fission product.
(17) E. coli K-12 RR1 transformants stained dark brown, whereas G6MD3 transformants stained greenish yellow, and they both were shown to contain a 5.8-kilobase-pair insert in the SalI site of pBR322, designated pPL301.
(18) Propranolol not only had a fungistatic effect, but also caused morphological changes in the organism, which were accompanied by decomposition of 4-hydroxypropranolol and formation of a greenish-brown colour in the incubation medium.
(19) The color change (yellow to greenish blue) inherent in the use of pyrophosphatase as the labeling agent is highly suitable for visual analysis.
(20) Nine months later there were greenish-yellow deposits in the deep stroma that accounted for a persistent decrease in vision.
Greensand
Definition:
(n.) A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.