(a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.
(a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
(a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.
(a.) Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.
(a.) Clear; definite in terms or amount.
(n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.
(n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(2) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(3) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
(4) Glycosyl ceramide concentration was determined by gas-liquid chromatography of the trimethylsilyl ethers of the methyl glycosides.
(5) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(7) To further characterize the molecular forms of GnRH in each species, the extracts were injected into a high pressure liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
(8) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(9) High pressure liquid chromatography combined with radioimmunoassay showed marked heterogeneity of SPLI and SLI.
(10) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
(11) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(12) A rapid method is described for the purification and analysis of synthetic oligonucleotides, based on reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.
(13) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(14) These analyses were carried out on unfractionated culture fluids and on fractions obtained by fast protein liquid chromatography separation using Superose 6 gels.
(15) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(16) Between-lot variation exceeded that of within-lot variation in 10 of the 14 liquid antacids for which this variation could be tested.
(17) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
(18) The rats were then sacrificed at either one or four hours after the injections and their brains analyzed for monoamine and metabolite content using High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection.
(19) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(20) [8(-14)C]Inosine monophosphate formed was separated by high-voltage electrophoresis and radioactivity was measured by liquid-scintillation counting.
Nitromethane
Definition:
(n.) A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nitromethane (NM) and 2-nitropropane (2-NP) and versatile compounds employed in a wide variety of industrial applications, thus providing ample opportunity for occupational exposure.
(2) The bound FAD and Fe3+ are reduced by the addition of nitromethane, which is not a substrate, under anaerobic conditions.
(3) Subsequent O-methylation, O-deacetylation, and condensation with nitromethane afforded the appropriate beta-glycoside of 3-methoxy-4-(2-nitrovinyl)phenol.
(4) The best yield of beta-linked disaccharide was obtained upon glycosylation by benzobromogalactose in the presence of silver triflate and tetramethylurea in nitromethane.
(5) However, treatment of 2',3'-di-O-acetyl-5'-O-tritylribavirin (11) with 4 under the Bredereck modification of the Koenigs-Knorr reaction (i.e., silver perchlorate and Drierite in nitromethane) and subsequent deacetylation furnished the desired 1-(5-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)-1,2,4-triazole-3-carb oxamide (13).
(6) The hepatotoxic and mutagenic potentials of 2-nitropropane, nitromethane, and nitroethane were compared.
(7) Trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate in nitromethane, however, gave predominantly the alpha anomer.
(8) Metabolic effects of in vivo administration of nitromethane, a histidase inhibitor, were studied in the rat.
(9) Liver histidase activity was decreased about 78 percent after nitromethane administration, and the rate of in vivo CO2 production from histidine was also depressed.
(10) In addition to 2-nitropropane, 1-nitropropane and nitroethane are oxidatively dentrified by the enzyme, but nitromethane is inert to the enzyme.
(11) They are low-spin hexacoordinated myoglobin or hemoglobin complexes, as shown by the resonance Raman spectrum of the nitromethane-derived human hemoglobin complex which is similar to those of the known hemoglobin complexes with O2, CO, NO and nitrosobenzene.
(12) The quenching of the etheno group by nitromethane was, however, unaffected by the binding of S-1 to actin.
(13) The condensation of no-carrier-added or carrier-added [11C]nitromethane with D-arabinose to form the intermediate epimeric [1-11C]D-nitro alcohols (I and II) was investigated under various conditions.
(14) The cocktails showed higher backgrounds, lower unquenched efficiencies, and greater quench resistance to nitromethane than a reference toluene based preparation.
(15) When nitromethane was added to plasma, the apparent creatinine measured was linearly related to the amount of nitromethane added.
(16) We have observed that high SOD-like function (decomposition of superoxide anion) was observed for several iron(III) compounds with tripodal ligands and several oxovanadium(IV) compounds, and also that these compounds exhibit high catalytic activity for oxidative cleavage of 3,5-di-tert-butylcatechol in non-donating solvents such as dichloromethane or nitromethane.
(17) Different doses of benzo(a)pyrene, cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) and its nitromethane fraction (NMF), in wax pellets, were directly implanted into the lungs of Syrian golden hamsters.
(18) Condensation of methyl 3-O-(2-acetamido-4,6-O-benzylidene-2-deoxy-beta-D- glucopyranosyl)-2,4,6-tri-O-benzyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside with 3-O-(2-acetamido-3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-2,4,6 -tri-O-acetyl-alpha-D-galactopyranosyl bromide in 1:1 benzene-nitromethane in the presence of powdered mercuric cyanide gave a fully-protected tetrasaccharide derivative, which was O-deacetylated and then subjected to catalytic hydrogenation to furnish methyl O-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-(1----3)-O-beta- D-galactopyranosyl-(1----3)-O-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranosyl )- (1----3)-beta-D-galactopyranoside (15).
(19) Rates of enzyme degradation in the two strains, measured by recovery of activity after irreversible inhibition with nitromethane, were the same.
(20) The on-line synthesis of 1-11C-labelled nitroalkanes [nitromethane (I), nitroethane (II) and nitropropane (III)], from their corresponding 1-11C-labelled alkyl iodides, by use of a heated silver nitrite column is described.