What's the difference between isothermal and isotropic?

Isothermal


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to equality of temperature.
  • (a.) Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
  • (2) Scatchard analysis of the binding isotherms indicated a lower Bmax of the binding sites in the hypothalamus and hippocampus of 8 and 14 weeks old SHR rats.
  • (3) Preliminary heating patterns studied in phantoms indicate the possibility of treating volumes greater than 2000 cm3 within the 50 per cent isotherm.
  • (4) By using LIGAND computerized program, the saturation isotherm binding pattern indicates a single type of binding.
  • (5) Scatchard plots of saturation isotherm data were consistently linear and the mean Kd value determined from 10 such experiments was 0.72 nM in frontal cortex and 0.82 nM in lumbar spinal cord.
  • (6) q(i) is the fractional free solute space, C(RP) (i) the RP concentration, (max)C(c) (2) (i) the concentration of binding sites, and the function f is satisfied by the Langmuir isotherm.
  • (7) For highly nonlinear isotherms, the frontal elution method is preferred.
  • (8) The model assumes that MAb permeates into tumor unidirectionally from plasma across capillaries and clears from tumor by interstitial fluid flow and that interstitial antibody-antigen interactions are characterized by the Langmuir isotherm for reversible, saturable binding.
  • (9) The shape of the binding isotherms, as well as fluorescence energy transfer measurements, suggests that some aggregation of membrane-bound peptide monomers occurs in acidic but not in zwitterionic vesicles.
  • (10) 2.5% by weight at the plateau; and (4) a vertical initial slope of the isotherm.
  • (11) A portion of the upper organic layer is chromatographed for 5 min isothermally on a packed column (3% SP2250) with nitrogen-phosphorus detection.
  • (12) The thermographs showed a pattern of ellipsoidal isotherms (major axis horizontal) approximately concentric about a temperature apex (coldest point) which was slightly inferior to the geometric center of the cornea (GCC).
  • (13) It is important, therefore, to recognize the temperature- and time-dependence of the structure of starch materials, if non-isothermal techniques are used for their characterization.
  • (14) The isothermal isorheological line and isothermal superelevation are described.
  • (15) The sequence of phase transformations during isothermal aging below the critical temperature, Tc = 825 K, was described as follows: disordered solid solution alpha 0 (FCC)----metastable AuCu I' ordered phase (FCT)----metastable alpha 2 disordered phase (FCC) equilibrium AuCu I ordered phase (FCT) + equilibrium alpha 2 disordered phase (FCC).
  • (16) This product shows an Arrhenius line fit for the stability of its activity when tested at multiple isothermal temperatures (25-80 degrees C).
  • (17) Displacement isotherms for amidephrine, benoxathian, oxymetazoline, phentolamine and WB 4101 were biphasic and were consistent with the presence of both alpha 1A- and alpha 1B-adrenoceptor subtypes as described by Morrow & Creese (1986) and Han et al.
  • (18) The real equilibrium values obtained by using the complete time-concentration model of adsorption were fitted according to the respective adsorption isotherms by non-linear regression.
  • (19) Binding isotherms were constructed for the binding of synthetic tetrapeptide and pentapeptide fragments to membranes prepared from chicken cerebellar tissue.
  • (20) The physicochemical solution properties of the galactoglucan excreted by Rhizobium meliloti strain YE-2(S1) have been investigated by capillary viscometry, potentiometric titration, isothermal mixing microcalorimetry, and circular dichroism.

Isotropic


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the same properties in all directions; specifically, equally elastic in all directions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
  • (2) Deviations from isotropic motion observed for the non-aromatic moieties are discussed.
  • (3) This systematic deviation in the motional parameters appears to be due to the use of a single-site isotropic model for the atomic fluctuations.
  • (4) A phosphate-containing spin label demonstrated strong an isotropic motion in the lipid-water system above the phase transition but not below.
  • (5) Ultracentrifugation for determination of isotropic concentrations of fatty acids is widely used.
  • (6) This exponential mixture rule is proposed for the study of the mechanical properties of isotropic dental composites.
  • (7) The human tension-area relation for isotropic loading could be described by an exponential function and was found to shift significantly to the left of the canine.
  • (8) As in the isotropic case, fundamental boundary-layer conditions are introduced containing only one transverse or normal mass or stiffness.
  • (9) In preparations stained by congo-rot and covered with arabic gumm amyloid deposits reveal intensive, positive bi refringement, collagen is isotrop, or shows a mild bi refringement.
  • (10) The changes in the integral of the extracellular action potentials (EAPs) generated by an infinite homogeneous fibre in an infinite homogeneous and isotropic volume conductor were studied at different radial distances (yo) from the fibre axis, depending on the propagation velocity (v), duration (Tin) and asymmetry of the intracellular action potential (IAP).
  • (11) A 630 nanometer wavelength of light was delivered through a quartz-optical fiber with either a regular flat end for focal illumination or a bulb-type end which produced an isotropic light pattern.
  • (12) An equation describing the isotropical dissolution of soluble nondisintegrating disks was developed.
  • (13) It was found that the correlation times of the protonated carbons were equal within experimental error, and this equality of correlation times of different sites of the molecule suggests strongly isotropic random motion of the molecule.
  • (14) The three-dimensional structure of the stalk porin has been determined to an almost isotropic resolution of 1.7 nm.
  • (15) They suggest that for a realistic situation translational diffusion should be about four times faster in relation to rotational diffusion than in the isotropic case.
  • (16) In strong contrast, the 31P-NMR spectra of the extracted lipids are characteristic for the hexagonal HII phase and an isotropic phase.
  • (17) The changes of T1 and T2 were treated based on the assumption of two types of molecular motions: (1) isotropic "slow" motions with times approximately greater than 10(-8) s (including the rotation of a molecule as a whole) and (2) anisotropic "fast" motions with times approximately less than 10(-10) s. Experimental data show an essential increase of the scale of intramolecular mobility for the majority of side groups upon transition of the protein from the native to the molten globule state.
  • (18) The photoretinoscope, which is a novel modification of an isotropic photorefractor, is also described.
  • (19) The isotropically shifted resonances in both the oxidized and reduced forms show a complex pH dependence due to the presence of three ionizable residues (Glu-44, His-20, and His-42).
  • (20) Using glass and low temperature isotropic (LTI) carbon adsorbents, i.e., a known procoagulant and a relevant biomaterial, respectively, the adsorption properties and the potential surface-induced conformational changes of high-purity native human fibrinogen (clottability greater than or equal to 92%) were studied, at 25 degrees C, by 3 independent methods.

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