What's the difference between impure and regulus?

Impure


Definition:

  • (a.) Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
  • (a.) Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
  • (a.) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
  • (a.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
  • (a.) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.
  • (v. t.) To defile; to pollute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two other impurities are pyrene derivatives but their acyl chains probably are not decanoic acid.
  • (2) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
  • (3) The UV and IR absorption spectra of compounds present in the eluate were compared with those of model compounds that were assumed to exist in the gel as impurities after the polymerization (monomers and oligomers of hydroxyethyl methacrylate, decomposition products of initiators).
  • (4) Chloramphenicol, dinitrophenol, and impurities present in some brands of agar all appear to inhibit the growth-medium-dependent branch of excision-repair.
  • (5) The combined results describe the depth of segregation of DMS blocks in Avcothane, the presence of DMS within the topmost 20 A in Biomer, and similar impurities in the model polymers.
  • (6) An impure sample of PLC inhibited sperm penetration, while a more purified preparation did not.
  • (7) A liquid chromatographic (LC) method was adapted for the determination of epinephrine and related impurities in intravenous and cardiac injections; ultraviolet (UV) and electrochemical detectors (EC) were used in series.
  • (8) The determination of potency or shelf life, impurity limit testing, and study of reaction mechanisms are considered as different aspects of drug stability.
  • (9) Isolated cytochrome c oxidase was fractionated by native-gel electrophoresis in Triton X-100, and a preparation of enzyme almost completely free of the usual impurities was recovered.
  • (10) Although these are worst case calculations, a consistent approach should be reconsidered to limit the additional effective dose equivalent from impurities to e.g.
  • (11) As little as 50 nmol of a protein may be quantified and an impurity peak of molecular weight ca.
  • (12) Not all impurities were found in every lot of drug investigated, and none of the impurities exceeded a concentration of 1% of the meperidine present.
  • (13) Skin impurities and fatty hair associated with acne were side effects in 22.5% of 378 patients during the first evaluation and in 10.8% of 369 patients at the second evaluation.
  • (14) The organic solvent soluble impurities exhibited strong mutagenic activity for TA98 and slight activity for TA100.
  • (15) Following this order the absorbents can be used for purification of human albumin from non-specific impurities taking into account stronger adsorption of albumin or impurities.
  • (16) Trace amounts of an impurity commonly produced in the synthesis of 1,2-distearoyl-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine, 1,3-distearoyl-2-sn-phosphatidylcholine, are found to dramatically reduce the rate of loss of small vesicles at 21 degrees C.
  • (17) It is shown on the basis of calculations of energy sublevels of the hyperfine structure that the effect of the geomagnetic field upon the impurity atoms in the volume of living cells should be considered in relation to the value of geomagnetic field induction pulses delta B.
  • (18) Contamination of cells by impurity atoms that may leach from electrodes was measured by atomic-absorption spectrophotometry and found to be negligible.
  • (19) Results presented here indicate that N-nitroso compound impurities are absent from the majority of the products tested.
  • (20) Eight of the proteins (L9, L11, L13, L21, L22, L35', L37 and L39) had no detectable contamination; the impurities in the others were no greater than 9%.

Regulus


Definition:

  • (n.) A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.
  • (n.) The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores.
  • (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) British bookmakers remain among the favourites to triumph in the World Cup – they'll take up to £600m online according to a new report by Regulus Insights and Sporting Index – and one of our teams, Betfair , will limber up for the big event this week by unveiling its annual results.
  • (2) On the morning of the 15th it lies just 1.1° above-left of Mars which, in turn, is 1.0° above-left of Regulus in Leo.
  • (3) In summer 1988, two cases were diagnosed, in a house sparrow (Passer domesticus) and in a goldcrest (Regulus regulus), which led us to a description of this unusual parasitic disease, whose cycle still remains unknown, and to a review of the prior known appearances in Switzerland.

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