(n.) An instrument designed to mark the presence of water, especially in air.
(n.) A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube.
Example Sentences:
(1) Initially its physicochemical principles as hydroscopic action, pH, gas absorption, ionism energy, etc., are described.
(2) A metal constrictor is partially filled with ameroid, a hydroscopic material.
(3) However, pre-dried fuel oil had a mildly hydroscopic phenomenon at relatively high humidity condition.
Hygroscope
Definition:
(n.) An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount.
Example Sentences:
(1) We chronically implanted hygroscopic occluders around the left circumflex coronary artery in 49 anesthetized young male domestic pigs and we studied the development of a collateral circulation at 4, 8, 12, and 26 weeks after implantation.
(2) We studied relaxation by hygroscopic expansion of the interfacial polymerization shear stress of bonded resin composites.
(3) These experiments are the first to verify that the classical particle growth theory is applicable to the particle sizes and environmental conditions present in the human airways during hygroscopic aerosol therapy.
(4) TBZ-Ph was shown to possess slight photosensitivity; it was not hygroscopic.
(5) The present UNICEF ORS mixture compacted easily by direct compression but gave fragile tablets, which were hygroscopic.
(6) The organism is characterized by its gray aerial mycelium color, hygroscopic spore mass and spiral spore chains with warty or spiny spore surfaces.
(7) The affected skin of pityriasis alba showed functional defects in both hygroscopicity and water-holding capacity detectable by water sorption-desorption test.
(8) Despite the biochemical keratin changes in psoriatic plaque, the latter is highly hygroscopic, in particular in the first minute after bathing.
(9) After the hygroscopicity of types I and II had been tested at various levels of relative humidity (RH) at 35 degrees C, type I was stable at less than 82% RH, but transformed into the monohydrate at more than 88% RH.
(10) Progredient stenosis of the circumflex coronary artery was induced by implanting a hygroscopic ameroid constrictor ring around it and occlusion was verified by in vivo angiography.
(11) Whisker-like crystals appeared on the surface of tablets that contained lactose or mannitol, a hygroscopic material such as docusate sodium, magnesium chloride, or potassium acetate, and other ingredients stored in an atmosphere of high relative humidity.
(12) Therefore conventional type suppositories containing VPA or S-VPA were not of practical use, whereas III and VI prevented volatility of VPA and minimized the hygroscopic property of S-VPA.
(13) Laminaria, a hygroscopic seaweed, was used to induce pressure within the rat tympanic cavity.
(14) The physicochemical properties of amorphous forms of frusemide, prepared by spray-drying at 50 or 150 degrees C, and their hygroscopic stability at temperatures of 25 and 40 degrees C, and at 0 and 75% relative humidity were investigated.
(15) The hydration, the hygroscopicity and the water-holding capacity as well as the rate of water loss were measured in 1) dry non-eczematous skin in 13 patients (mean age 32 years) with atophic dermatitis (AD), 2) dry, xerotic skin of old patients (mean age 75 years) and 3) 17 controls (mean age 36 years) with normal skin and no history of AD.
(16) We have developed a method (hygroscopic desorption) for measuring the binding of small molecules to membranes.
(17) It would appear that in terms of contamination control and air flow resistance the pleated membrane filter provides a wider margin of safety than either the hygroscopic or composite devices.
(18) The relationship between the pseudopolymorphic crystal forms of this compound and water content was studied by X-ray diffractometry, coulometric moisture analysis, thermal analysis, and hygroscopic and vacuum-freeze-drying experiments.
(19) After the hygroscopicity test, the final expansion ratio of type I tablets was more than that of type II tablets.
(20) It was found that highly hygroscopic wool fabrics were perceived as being dryer and maintained a higher temperature at the skin surface than polyester, a less hygroscopic fabric, during fabric-skin contact.