(n.) A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples of alloy were cut from each group, and together with a piece from an original ingot, were mounted, polished, etched, and examined under a metallurgical microscope.
(2) The best processing schedule is casting small ingots while avoiding oxidation, followed by swaging, drawing, and homogenization.
(3) What do you take me for?’” Nanni must have been quite pissed off to spend hours carving this in clay, and I can only hope he got his ingot upgrade.
(4) The smoking adjusted odds ratios in relation to length of exposure showed that the risk was significantly higher among the workers exposed for over 10 years compared to those who worked for less than 10 years in the grinding, soldering and brass ingot making operations.
(5) Under near-equilibrium conditions, an alloy ingot containing approximately 64% Ag, 26% Sn, and 10% Au was found by X-ray diffraction to consist of large grains demonstrating the gamma (Ag-Sn) structure.
(6) Following results were obtained: 1) Ingot specimen of these alloys showed cytotoxicity, Silver-tin-zinc alloy, silver-tin-zinc-cadmium alloy and silver-copper alloy containing 10% or less of copper showed intense cytotoxicity initially, with diminishing cytotoxic action with time.
(7) They were not ones to build monuments; instead, they took weighing scales with them and ingot moulds to melt down spare ecclesiastical treasures.
(8) Samples of alloy were cut from each group and, together with a piece from an original ingot, were mounted, polished, etched, and examined under a metallurgical microscope in order to determine the nature and extent of the metallographic changes resulting from fusion and casting of the alloy.
(9) The most continuous results were achieved with a Ni-Cr-alloy whose melting temperature can be recognized since the ingots flow together when this point is reached.
(10) Melted ingots were lathe-comminuted to a particle size distribution of 1-45 microns.
(11) 2) Cast specimen of these alloys showed increasing cytotoxicity with time campared to their ingot specimen.
(12) Ingots of approximately 1.5 cm in diameter were sectioned to 0.2 cm in thickness and polished through standard metallographic polishing procedures.
(13) For the first series an average weight metal ingot was used and cast at the temperature determined by the sensing head of the casting machine.
(14) Evans said lower value goods had been recovered but many loose precious stones were still missing, as were “gold, platinum and other precious metal bars, ingots and coins”.
(15) It was written in cuneiform script in 1750BC by a bloke called Nanni who is unhappy with some copper ingots he ordered.
(16) He wrote: “You put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said ‘If you want to take them, take them, if you do not want to take them, go away.
(17) For example, Sharps Pixley sells a 1g Degussa gold bar for £40.60, or a 100g ingot for £3,290.
(18) Subsequently, a method was perfected for incorporating nickel or tungsten powder into the Ag3 Sn ingot.
(19) For the second series a larger ingot was used, whilst for the third an elevated casting temperature was employed.
(20) Using these efficiencies, amounts of U in some Al and Fe ingots were determined.
Sow
Definition:
(v. i.) To sew. See Sew.
(n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
(n.) A sow bug.
(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
(n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(2) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(3) Serum from piglets of vaccinated sows had no more bactericidal activity than did sera from non-vaccinated sows.
(4) The results indicate that additional feed in late gestation improves reproductive performance in sows.
(5) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(6) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
(7) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
(10) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
(11) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(12) Patterns of estradiol and LH secretion around estrus were similar in normal sows and those treated with GnRH.
(13) The adrenocortical response and open field behavior of a random sample of 37 individually confined gestating sows in different parities were tested around day 85 of pregnancy.
(14) The possibility of transplacental transmission of PRCV was investigated in two litters born to sows that had been inoculated with this virus in late pregnancy.
(15) Isolations were made from the kidney and genital tract of each sow.
(16) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(17) Add to this the fact that sows in China are almost certain to be kept in stalls.
(18) Despite hypocalcaemia and hypophosphataemia of the homozygote sows at term, fetal Ca and Pi concentrations were normal.
(19) Number of pigs born alive was lower for sows treated with P.G.
(20) Sera from adult sows showed a higher rate (73.1%) of positive titers than those from 3-6 month-old pigs (40.7%).