(a.) Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.
(a.) Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty.
(a.) Strong.
Example Sentences:
(1) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
(2) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
(3) One cellulase is buffer-soluble, the other buffer-insoluble but extractable with high salt concentrations.
(4) Evidence is presented which suggests that these plasmid-mediated, temperature-inducible surface fibrillae are responsible for autoagglutination and are related to production of one prominent, Sarkosyl-insoluble polypeptide of ca.
(5) During the growth of Azotobacter vinelandii in batch culture in Burk's 2% glucose medium supplemented with 50 mg EDTA per litre, water-insoluble capsular polysaccaride material accumulated in cultures prior to the appearance of water-soluble polysaccharide in the culture medium.
(6) A Nonidet P 40 insoluble fraction was isolated from Trypanosoma brucei and was used to raise a monoclonal antibody (5E9).
(7) Insoluble collagen was found to bind electrostatically to chondromucoprotein.
(8) After 6 weeks irradiation, the insoluble collagen and elastin were both substantially elevated, as were the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and superoxide dismutase (SOD).
(9) However, since the Krafft point of lincomycin palmitate is approximately 43 degrees, it does not form micelles below that temperature and appears to be quite insoluble until heated above 43 degrees.
(10) Average remnant diameters were 400-600 A and remnants were enriched in cholesteryl esters and in protein insoluble in tetramethylurea.
(11) Ultrastructural studies of detergent-insoluble cytoskeletons from infected cells and immunofluorescence microscopy of phalloidin-labeled cells showed alterations in the structure of the cytoskeleton during the internalization process including the accumulation of polymerized actin around entering bacteria.
(12) Cells obtained from 12-day tissue remained monolayers for 4 to 8 days, after which time portions of the culture contracted into matrix containing chemically definable insoluble elastin and forming desmosine cross-links.
(13) Micrococcal nuclease-digested testis and erythrocyte chromatin was separated into soluble and insoluble fractions.
(14) Five other patients with water-insoluble paraproteins were tested; two were clot-inhibitory.
(15) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
(16) The protein component was relatively insoluble and contained an excess of acidic over basic amino acids and little cystine.
(17) Biochemical analysis of the kinetics of assembly of two cytoplasmic plaque proteins of the desmosome, desmoplakins I (250,000 Mr) and II (215,000 Mr), in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells, demonstrated that these proteins exist in a soluble and insoluble pool, as defined by their extract ability in a Triton X-100 high salt buffer (CSK buffer).
(18) The ratio of soluble to insoluble beta-galactosidase decreased during the course of cell growth.
(19) GP Ib was sedimented with the Triton-insoluble actin filaments in trace amounts only, and only after high speed centrifugation (100,000 x g, 3 h).
(20) Elastic fibers have been shown to contain two proteins, insoluble elastin and the elastic fiber microfibril, a glycoprotein.
Laterite
Definition:
(n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.
Example Sentences:
(1) The businesses that bring clay and laterite for landfill.
(2) From there they were driven north towards the village of La Macarena, a spine-crunching six-hour drive along unpaved laterite roads, where Farc has a string of training camps, some of them big enough to host 600 rebel fighters.
(3) Over 5 day incubation under flooded conditions, greater volatile loss of lindane occurred in sandy soil than in alluvial soil apparanetly due to greater adsorption to the soil colloids decreasing the insecticide concentration in the standing water on the laterite soil.
(4) Three species of snails were commonly found: Bulinus guernei was the most common, occurring in permanent habitats, Bulinus senegalensis occurring in laterite pools in the eastern part of the Middle Valley, and also in the ricefields of Guédé Chantier and Lampsar; B. forskalii was found in small numbers in Lac de Guier and Richard Toll.
(5) The intensity and prevalence of Schistosoma haematobium infection has been measured in a community in the laterite plateau area of the McCarthy Island Division, The Gambia.
(6) Some are only heaps of laterite blocks, but many are still astonishing: the towering lotus buds of Angkor Wat, the haunting Ta Prohm, in the clutches of time and strangler figs.
(7) In a search for geochemical factors that could play a role in the pathogenesis of tropical endomyocardial fibrosis, endomyocardial tissue samples obtained from patients at necropsy or operation were analysed for major elements present in laterite and monazite, which are important soil constituents of Kerala State of India.