What's the difference between loam and mould?

Loam


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
  • (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.
  • (v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
  • (2) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
  • (3) Only a few Oncomelania snails and patients were observed in areas covered with red loam.
  • (4) Touch the soil, as Dughan did, and as his daughter did too at the sight of him, and it felt greasy, heavy, as if someone had poured cream onto loam.
  • (5) Auxotrophic recipient cells (thr- leu- thi- rpsL) were incubated in a sandy and a silty clay loam soil, and the transducing phage lysates from prototrophic strains carrying transposon 10(Tn10) in either purE or aroL regions were added.
  • (6) The two soil specimens are similar in that they differ from a typical clay loam in high content of carbon, hydrogen, and organic nitrogen and low levels of sodium, potassium, and titanium.
  • (7) on nodulation, growth, and grain yield was undertaken in red sandy loam of Bangalore, having a pH of 4.0.
  • (8) The rate of oxidation increased with the clay content of the soils from sandy loam to clay loam.
  • (9) To determine whether aflatoxin was bound to the silty clay loam soil, aflatoxin B1 was added to this soil and incubated for 20 days.
  • (10) Vertical soil microcosms flushed with groundwater were used to study the influence of water movement on survival and transport of a genetically engineered Pseudomonas fluorescens C5t strain through a loamy sand and a loam soil.
  • (11) An enzyme which catalyzed the hydrolysis of crotoxyphos ((E)-1-phenylethyl 3-[(dimethoxyphosphinyl)oxy]-2-butenoate) was isolated from nonsterile and radiation-sterilized Chehalis clay loam with 1.5M Tris (2-(hydroxymethyl)-2-nitro-1,3-propanediol) and partially purified with lead acetate treatment.
  • (12) Equilibrium adsorption coefficient (K) values measured using a batch-slurry technique follows the order clay loam greater than silt loam soil.
  • (13) Parathion mixed with 100-mesh sieved dust resulted in increasing "ppm" levels with decreasing particle size; extent of parathion conversion to paraoxon was independent of particle size for the sandy loam dust used.
  • (14) Aflatoxin decomposition proceeded most slowly in the silty clay loam soil.
  • (15) When applied to autoclayed Chehalis clay loam, purified enzyme lost 75% of its activity after one week and the remainder within two weeks.
  • (16) The enrichment procedures often lead to a falsely positive determination of the factors; Testing of ABO groups was most unfavourably influenced by loam, that of Gm by clay and chalk soils.
  • (17) Both methods utilized beef extract solutions to achieve desorption and recovery of viruses from representative soils: a fine sand soil, an organic muck soil, a sandy loam soil, and a clay loam soil.
  • (18) The experiments were confined to the effects of the addition of different sources of carbon (glucose, wheat straw, and sawdust) on the microbial activities in soils: loamy sand, loam and saline clay were used.
  • (19) The influence of composted peat on the effectiveness of different doses of mineral fertilizers was studied in model greenhouse experiments with barley of the Pirkka variety cultivated in sand and poorly cultivated sandy-loam soil.
  • (20) Leaching through silt clay loam (0-18 cm) columns from Ullensaker was very fast.

Mould


Definition:

  • (v.) Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.
  • (v.) Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.
  • (v. t.) To cover with mold or soil.
  • (n.) A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
  • (v. i.) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
  • (n.) The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold.
  • (n.) That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason.
  • (n.) Cast; form; shape; character.
  • (n.) A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.
  • (n.) A fontanel.
  • (n.) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.
  • (v. t.) To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion.
  • (v. t.) To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.
  • (v. t.) To knead; as, to mold dough or bread.
  • (v. t.) To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.
  • () Alt. of Mouldy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most intriguing of all is the potential for the mould to "expect" changes in its environment.
  • (2) The median exposure of total dust was well below the Swedish threshold value, and the exposure of mould and bacteria was also low.
  • (3) We therefore used two different tRNA genes from the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum which are efficiently transcribed and processed in vivo in yeast.
  • (4) A mould which was isolated from a solution of paracetamol was identified as a Penicillium species and was found to possess the ability to utilise a series of substituted acetanilides, including paracetamol (4-hydroxyacetanilide), phenacetin (4-ethoxyacetanilide) and metacetamol (3-hydroxyacetanilide) as sole carbon sources for growth.
  • (5) Studies of substrate and cosubstrate specificities of mould alpha-glucosidases suggest that the binding site of the active center of mould alpha-glucosidase consits of two subsites--glucone and aglucone ones.
  • (6) Patients are instructed to wear the mould for 6 months, removing it only to clean or for a change of size.
  • (7) In all patients except one, specific IgE-antibodies to the respective mould were demonstrated by immunoblotting.
  • (8) In addition to mesophilic species, xerophilic moulds appear to be common, often developing together with mites.
  • (9) These antisera were characterized by immunofluorescence and by indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for their reactivity with 44 strains of moulds.
  • (10) It is recommended to apply cast fillings with a replacement of the occlusive area as quickly after the wax mould as possible because of the diminished gap due to the motion of the teeth.
  • (11) Agreement between RAST and provocation tests was 79% for the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, 71.5% for cat and dog epithelium, 70% for the Penicillium mould, 63% for Alternaria, 55% for Hormodendron and Aspergillus and only 53% for house dust.
  • (12) An isotope dilution technique has been used to analyze the synthesis of metabolically stable nucleic acids during the mitotic cycle in surface plasmodia of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum.
  • (13) Reactions to moulds were observed in 9% of the patients.
  • (14) The analyses of more than 200 samples of various foods of plant origin showed that patulin was contained in 36% of the fresh and canned fruits infested with mould, and in 7% of the vegetables.
  • (15) Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
  • (16) This carnival of camera phones, caressing and even groping (the waxen men do have "moulds" where their private parts would be so that their trousers hang properly, but no, nothing too realistic down there) is the celebrity world were we in control.
  • (17) A soluble cytochrome was isolated and purified from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and identified as cytochrome c by room-temperature and low-temperature (77 degrees K) difference spectroscopy.
  • (18) The use of fibrin as a resorbable biological adhesive permits moulding of HA granules into individually shaped implants.
  • (19) Under improvement of technology of the cobalt-base-alloy "Gisadent KCM 83", the influence of different mould temperatures to the alloy surface was inquired with help of comparism.
  • (20) As related to the control lot, the addition of these acid results, in the first two doses, in a decrease and slowing-down of the growth of the mould and the production of its two mycotoxins (patulin and byssochlamic acid).