(n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.
(n.) A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
(n.) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.
(n.) A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hyacinth Bucket finagling her way into the company of mass murderers."
(2) It’s unfortunate, but you have to destroy some areas to save the city Victor Coenen Ahok deployed squadrons of workers to clean the rivers of their choking surface carpets of rubbish and water hyacinths.
(3) Anyone caught exporting or possessing invasive species such as grey squirrels, ruddy ducks and water hyacinth in the EU will soon face heavy fines and confiscations, under a new blacklist filed at the WTO, which the Guardian has seen.
(4) Diagnosis of Escherichia coli septicemia and enteritis in a hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) was based on lesions such as generalized hyperemia and hemorrhages in visceral organs, fibrinonecrotic lesions in the intestine, and isolation of E coli in pure culture from the heart blood, liver, and intestine.
(5) Both species are most abundant in the presence of aquatic vegetation, but they differ in their respective associations with the water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes.
(6) Dermatophilosis was diagnosed in the area of Saint-Hyacinthe in October 1978.
(7) Birch twig and marguerite most frequently induced symptoms, followed by strongly smelling flowers such as hyacinth, lilac, and lily of the valley.
(8) Sam-samping had 4.79% total oligosaccharides and hyacinth bean or batao, 3.66%.
(9) René Théophile Hyacinthe Lënnec is famous chiefly for the invention of the stethoscope.
(10) The effect of electroplating factory effluent in different concentrations (viz., 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0%) on the germination and growth of hyacinth beans (Dolichos lablab) and mustard seeds (Brassica compestris) was studied.
(11) The aquatic weed--water hyacinth [Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms] showed a remarkable capacity to withstand the effects of pH changes ranging from 5 to 8 in the aquatic environment.
(12) The water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) may be used as a sensitive biological indicator for continuously monitoring trace quantities of toxic heavy metals in aquatic systems.
(13) The metal content in the hyacinth bean plants increased with increasing effluent concentration but after 1.0% effluent concentration, the concentration of all the metals (Ca, Mg, Na, K, Cu, Zn, Fe) decreased in the plants except Cr, which increased throughout.
(14) But someone who lives or works here has put a couple of drooping geraniums on a first-floor windowsill, a touchingly modest, personal attempt at home-making, more human in scale than all the tulips, hyacinths and pansies planted in vast quantities in the gardens along the road, which have been landscaped into luxury-hotel-style anonymity.
(15) It is a sandy patch of land surrounded by water in which bare-chested boys in dugout canoes paddle among the hyacinths.
(16) A total of 30 isolates of Treponema hyodysenteriae collected in the Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec, Canada) area were serotyped by agar gel double immunodiffusion by using extracted lipopolysaccharide and hyperimmune rabbit antisera.
(17) Harvested hyacinths represent a useful product which could be converted into compost, or used directly as a soil amendment.
(18) "It's disgusting," said Hyacinth Rattray, who featured in episode two in a subplot that followed the street's unsuccessful attempt to win a prize in the Britain in Bloom competition.
(19) Stabilization ponds followed by hyacinth culture constitute an economical, low energy treatment system which reduces significantly those potential health hazards associated with wastewaters.
(20) For example, gay culture holds a special place for those who put on an extravagantly brave front (think Hyacinth Bucket); or for those who maintain strength against the odds, or who face rejection or adversity (or their own demons) with style.
Zirconium
Definition:
(n.) A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sodium (Na) zinc (Zn) and zirconium (Zr) derivatives of PT were studied and the effects of duration of contact and concentration of the NaPT and ZnPT in test solutions were examined.
(2) The elements added to increase radiopacity in the composite materials are barium, strontium, zinc, zirconium, and ytterbium.
(3) The energy was coupled into a 250-microns core diameter zirconium-fluoride fiber.
(4) The residue was taken up with 2 M perchloric acid and zirconium in the solution was extracted with 0.1 M thenoyltrifluoroacetone (TTA) in benzene.
(5) Porous microparticulate zirconium oxide shows very different selectivities and pH dependencies for the separation of benzoic acid derivatives than do conventional bonded-phase anion-exchange supports.
(6) Cellulose was converted into a more reactive form by chelation with the transition metals titanium(III), iron(III), tin(IV), vanadium(III), and zirconium(IV).
(7) A high in vitro stability of the zirconium-desferal complex was observed; less than 0.2% zirconium was lost within 24 h in plasma-solutions.
(8) All processes are based mainly on ion-exchange separations using amorphous zirconium phosphate.
(9) After administration at low doses of soluble salt of hafnium, this element was similarly concentrated in nodular lymphatic cells and was as zirconium uniquely localized in the lysosomes of macrophages where it is associated with phosphorus.
(10) The 99Mo is present as a zirconium molybdate gel, the high molybdate content of which allows the use of (n, gamma) 99Mo.
(11) The cause of this impaired calcemic response was investigated by reinfusing rats with their own urine that had been pretreated with either activated charcoal or zirconium oxide in two different anionic forms, or urine that had been ultrafiltrated through an Amicon membrane of which the stated molecular-weight cut-off of the smallest pore-size membrane was 500 daltons.
(12) Although zirconium fluoride fibers have high through-put efficiencies that facilitate study of laser tissue interactions at 2.94 microns, problems encountered with fragility and solubility of the bare tip in aqueous media limit its usefulness.
(13) An automated method, based on the chelating reaction of calcium disodium edetate with zirconium and the subsequent determination of excess zirconium reacted with xylenol orange, was developed.
(14) In this work we have studied intracellular concentration sites of zirconium after injection of low doses of zirconium sulphate.
(15) Other components registered in quantities of 5-10 wt-% were barium, aluminum, zinc, and zirconium.
(16) Laser energy was delivered as a single pulse (250 microseconds) by tissue fiber optic contact with low hydroxyl-fused silica (200 and 500 microns), zirconium fluoride (250 microns), or sapphire (250 microns) fiber optics.
(17) Despite suspicion that inhalation of zirconium should be capable of causing human pulmonary disease, documentation of zirconium pneumoconiosis in humans has been lacking.
(18) The elements antimony, ruthenium, lead, and cesium were enriched on the smallest particles, indicating that they were in a volatile chemical form, while cerium, zirconium, and radium were nonvolatile at the combustion temperatures.
(19) Alveolar macrophages from the rabbit were exposed in the culture medium to zirconium and aluminum salts.
(20) In subjects exposed to a hot environment, short-term topical pretreatment with aluminium zirconium tetrachlorhydrate delayed the onset of visible sweating although it failed to prevent the response.