(n.) A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
(2) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(3) Bacterial counts did not differ between sand and crushed limestone.
(4) Earlier this year, a century-old wasteland of limestone and red dirt in south-west Nigeria was transformed into the biggest cement plant in Africa.
(5) Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers – illegal under international law – and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.
(6) Effects were evaluated of high dietary levels of magnesium oxide (MgO) or limestone on DM, OM and CP digestibility, N balance and intestinal absorption of amino acids by lambs fed a high concentrate diet.
(7) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(8) Limestone supplied supplemental Ca and treatment P levels were supplied by monosodium phosphate.
(9) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(10) Diets containing 25:75 corn silage to concentrates and .95% calcium from either coarse or fine limestone were fed to rumen-fistulated heifers.
(11) Treatments included control diet alone or control diet with the addition of 1.60% defluorinated rock phosphate-medium (DRP-M, 77% greater than 150 mu but less than 1,180 mu), 1.60% defluorinated rock phosphate-coarse (DRP-C, 85% greater than 850 mu but less than 1,700 mu), 1.28% limestone (92% greater than 150 mu but less than 850 mu) or .50% MgO, (81% greater than 250 mu but less than 1,180 mu), as an as-fed basis.
(12) The in vivo Ca solubilization in hens was determined by subtracting Ca recovered as limestone in the excreta (by repeated washing) from Ca fed as limestone.
(13) Detail from a Mayan limestone relief of a blood-letting ritual.
(14) Milk, flavor score was acceptable but tended to be lower for milk from cows fed sunflower seeds with additional limestone (8.4, 8.5, and 7.9).
(15) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
(16) A highly reactive limestone was selected for use in two digestion trials with Holstein steers.
(17) The Florida resort lies less than 10 feet above sea level; an increasing number of tropical storms are inundating the city; and it is built on a dome of porous limestone which is absorbing the rising seawater.
(18) Stand on the limestone pavement near Long Churn Cave in the Yorkshire Dales and it feels as if you are standing on top of time itself.
(19) Approximately 14 days after exploring a limestone cave in northcentral Florida in February 1973, an 18-year-old female developed a respiratory illness with pronounced shortness of breath and cyanosis.
(20) There's limestone and sandstone to the north, but Aswan's bedrock is hornblende granite.
Malm
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Malmbrick
Example Sentences:
(1) This substance stopped fetal and skin (MALME 3 line) fibroblast propagation.
(2) In maxicells, the resulting plasmid permitted tac12-promoted synthesis of two polypeptides, encoded by gene malM, with apparent molecular weights of 37 X 10(3) and 34.5 X 10(3).
(3) Smaller increases were noted with the cell lines RPMI 7951, HT 144, Malme-3M, MEL-2, and no significant increase was observed with MEL-5.
(4) Treatment of MALME-3 cells with BESPM resulted in an accumulation of N-acetylspermidine in cells and the enhanced excretion of putrescine, spermidine, and N-acetylspermidine into the medium.
(5) The malM gene, encoding a periplasmic protein of unknown function in Escherichia coli, is a highly conserved as genes encoding proteins of known function from the same region.
(6) Treatment of human MALME-3 melanoma cells with 10 microM N1,N11-bis(ethyl)norspermine (BENSPM) for 48-72 h increased SSAT activity by some 1000- to 4000-fold and enabled purification of the enzyme by established procedures--binding on immobilized spermine and elution with spermine followed by binding on Matrex Blue A and elution with coenzyme A.
(7) One malM mutation corresponding to an A.T----G.C transition showed a 10-fold-higher spontaneous reversion frequency than other such transitions in a wild-type background.
(8) From 1981, we changed a surgical procedure fro Gersony-Malm procedure to the posterior approach method, and a surgical technique from the deep hypothermia and the circulatory arrest to the moderate hypothermia and the pump perfusion.
(9) The patient was treated with repair using Gersony-Malm's method and plasty of SVC because of the stenosis of the common pulmonary vein's entrance to the SVC.
(10) In MALME-3 cells, SSAT accumulation was found to be differentially modulated by the BESPM homologues, N1,N11-bis-(ethyl)norspermine and N1,N14-bis-(ethyl)homospermine, which were 5-fold more and 9-fold less effective, respectively, than BESPM in increasing SSAT but similar in analogue uptake and effects on polyamine biosynthesis and cell growth inhibition.
(11) The intergenic region between lamB and the following gene, malM, comprises conserved segments, including one palindromic unit.
(12) They result in an increase in amount and specific activity of a MalM-LacZ hybrid protein.
(13) The complete malM open reading frame was cloned under control of the tac 12 promoter.
(14) Mutations affecting the hydrophobic core of the N-terminal extension of the MalM protein have been isolated.
(15) The calcium balance studies of Malm were re-analysed to quantify the seasonal variation he had demonstrated in one group of men.
(16) We show that the chromosomal malM gene is expressed as part of the malK-lamB operon, and that its product is periplasmic.
(17) Antiproliferative effects ranged from slowing of cell growth in the less SSAT responsive lines (LOX, SH-1) to total cessation of cell growth or overt cytotoxicity in the more potently SSAT responsive lines (MALME-3, Ebey).
(18) Finally, we demonstrate with nuclease S1 mapping experiments that the mRNA terminates at a typical rho-independent terminator located about 45 base-pairs beyond the end of gene malM, which is thus the last gene of the malK-lamB operon.
(19) We have subcloned and sequenced the genes malF and malM of Salmonella typhimurium, thereby completing the determination of the nucleotide sequence of its 'maltose B' regulon.
(20) They failed to kill autologous B cells, erythroid progenitors present in allogeneic bone marrow, and a number of cultured human tumor cells (Malme, CAKI) even after prolonged (36 h) co-culture.