What's the difference between ligure and zirconium?

Ligure


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of precious stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper is a compressed version of a tutorial which was presented during the 1986 training course of the International Pharmaco-EEG Group, in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy.
  • (2) This tutorial was presented during the 1986 training course of the International Pharmaco-EEG Group (IPEG) in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy.
  • (3) A survey of literature data on male breast cancer is reported: on this basis the authors report their experience of five cases observed between 1980 and 1989 at Ospedale "S. Corona" Pietra Ligure, out of 500 female breast cancers treated in the same period.

Zirconium


Definition:

  • (n.) A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sodium (Na) zinc (Zn) and zirconium (Zr) derivatives of PT were studied and the effects of duration of contact and concentration of the NaPT and ZnPT in test solutions were examined.
  • (2) The elements added to increase radiopacity in the composite materials are barium, strontium, zinc, zirconium, and ytterbium.
  • (3) The energy was coupled into a 250-microns core diameter zirconium-fluoride fiber.
  • (4) The residue was taken up with 2 M perchloric acid and zirconium in the solution was extracted with 0.1 M thenoyltrifluoroacetone (TTA) in benzene.
  • (5) Porous microparticulate zirconium oxide shows very different selectivities and pH dependencies for the separation of benzoic acid derivatives than do conventional bonded-phase anion-exchange supports.
  • (6) Cellulose was converted into a more reactive form by chelation with the transition metals titanium(III), iron(III), tin(IV), vanadium(III), and zirconium(IV).
  • (7) A high in vitro stability of the zirconium-desferal complex was observed; less than 0.2% zirconium was lost within 24 h in plasma-solutions.
  • (8) All processes are based mainly on ion-exchange separations using amorphous zirconium phosphate.
  • (9) After administration at low doses of soluble salt of hafnium, this element was similarly concentrated in nodular lymphatic cells and was as zirconium uniquely localized in the lysosomes of macrophages where it is associated with phosphorus.
  • (10) The 99Mo is present as a zirconium molybdate gel, the high molybdate content of which allows the use of (n, gamma) 99Mo.
  • (11) The cause of this impaired calcemic response was investigated by reinfusing rats with their own urine that had been pretreated with either activated charcoal or zirconium oxide in two different anionic forms, or urine that had been ultrafiltrated through an Amicon membrane of which the stated molecular-weight cut-off of the smallest pore-size membrane was 500 daltons.
  • (12) Although zirconium fluoride fibers have high through-put efficiencies that facilitate study of laser tissue interactions at 2.94 microns, problems encountered with fragility and solubility of the bare tip in aqueous media limit its usefulness.
  • (13) An automated method, based on the chelating reaction of calcium disodium edetate with zirconium and the subsequent determination of excess zirconium reacted with xylenol orange, was developed.
  • (14) In this work we have studied intracellular concentration sites of zirconium after injection of low doses of zirconium sulphate.
  • (15) Other components registered in quantities of 5-10 wt-% were barium, aluminum, zinc, and zirconium.
  • (16) Laser energy was delivered as a single pulse (250 microseconds) by tissue fiber optic contact with low hydroxyl-fused silica (200 and 500 microns), zirconium fluoride (250 microns), or sapphire (250 microns) fiber optics.
  • (17) Despite suspicion that inhalation of zirconium should be capable of causing human pulmonary disease, documentation of zirconium pneumoconiosis in humans has been lacking.
  • (18) The elements antimony, ruthenium, lead, and cesium were enriched on the smallest particles, indicating that they were in a volatile chemical form, while cerium, zirconium, and radium were nonvolatile at the combustion temperatures.
  • (19) Alveolar macrophages from the rabbit were exposed in the culture medium to zirconium and aluminum salts.
  • (20) In subjects exposed to a hot environment, short-term topical pretreatment with aluminium zirconium tetrachlorhydrate delayed the onset of visible sweating although it failed to prevent the response.

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