What's the difference between limestone and marmorization?
Limestone
Definition:
(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.
Marmorization
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Unicompartmental replacement using the Marmor prosthesis was done in 40 knees (37 patients) with medial compartment gonarthrosis.
(2) In hyperextension, knees replaced with the ICLH, Marmor and Total Condylar prostheses failed by rupture of the posterior capsule at moments of about 60 newton-metres, compared with about 100 for natural knees.
(3) The absorption of a macular edema after creation of a "leak" by sungazing can be explained by the hypothesis (Marmor) that most "leaks" do not cause subretinal fluid but represent diffusion of fluorescein down a concentration gradient into the subretinal fluid.
(4) A follow-up of 2 years or more on 105 patients with the Modular (Marmor) knee replacement revealed that 88 per cent of the patients had a successful result.
(5) The revisions were performed with McIntosh, Marmor, Attenborough, Guepar, and various types of tricompartmental prostheses.
(6) 100 unicompartmental knee prosthesis type Marmor-Cartier with 86 replacements of the medial compartment have been followed for a period of 5 to 15 years.
(7) Twenty-one osteoarthritic knees with an average varus angulation of 13 degrees were followed up for 7-10 years after resurfacing with the Marmor compartmental knee arthroplasty.
(8) Molecular weight determination by gel permeation chromatography and analysis of crystallinity using Fourier transformation infra-red spectroscopy demonstrated that St George polyethylene had higher molecular weight and crystallinity than Marmor polyethylene.
(9) Guépar hinges were used in 21 knees and Marmor modular knees in 4.
(10) When compared with our earlier Marmor series, the PCA unicompartmental arthroplasties were better.
(11) The patient had marmorated skin, hypoplastic penis and undescended testes.
(12) After Marmor arthroplasty lateral patellar dislocation was found in seven knees, in six causing pain.
(13) 41 cases were of the unconstrained type (Marmor, Bechtol, and Oxford), while 101 cases were of the constrained type (St. Georg hinge and Endo-Model).
(14) With the Marmor prosthesis the anterior cruciate ligament was avulsed at about 20 newton-metres compared with about 75 in natural knees, suggesting that in this respect the retention of the cruciate ligaments contributes little.
(15) Thirty-seven patients with unicompartmental osteoarthritis were treated by replacement arthroplasty using the Marmor modular prosthesis and each patient was followed for at least two years.
(16) Unicompartmental replacement with a Marmor knee prosthesis was performed in 53 patients with unicompartmental osteoarthritis (OA).
(17) Fifty-six consecutive knees were operated on for single compartment disease using the Marmor modular knee with a minimum follow-up of four years.
(18) The Marmor designs showed the least wear, with shiny depressions and surface pitting; no delamination was observed in the Marmor prosthesis.
(19) Marmor sees the lesion of the pigmentary epithelium as a disturbance of a cyclic action of the AMP neeth the neurosensory layer of the retina.
(20) One-half of the McIntosh and Marmor arthroplasties and one-third of the Attenborough and Guepar arthroplasties, altogether 17 cases, showed signs of potential roentgenographic failure.