(n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of behavioral treatment with milk of magnesia eliminated soiling accidents and increased the frequency of appropriate bowel movements.
(2) Composites containing ceria and magnesia as substitutes for yttria behave similarly.
(3) This phenomenon is observed with solids having a dominant basic character (asbestos, magnesia) but is not detected with acidic solids (alumina, silica-alumina).
(4) Detection of aluminum, silicon, magnesium, zirconium and oxygen provided a basis to reason the presence of alumina (Al2O3), silica (SiO2), magnesia (MgO), and zirconia (ZrO2).
(5) Low walls around the site are studded with blue milk of magnesia bottles in wave formations and more than 25,000 seashells.
(6) The intent of this project was to evaluate the susceptibility of a magnesia alumina spinel (Cerestore) to stress corrosion and degradation.
(7) Binding of Carafate (sucralfate; Marion Laboratories, Inc., Kansas City, MO) and Maalox (magnesia-alumina oral suspension; Wm.
(8) Ninety-five mass% magnesia clinker and 5 mass% dental stone were selected for the main constituents.
(9) A detailed 91Zr NMR investigation is presented of the five component (cubic, monoclinic, tetragonal, orthorhombic and delta) phase mixture in the transformation toughened engineering ceramic, magnesia-partially-stabilised zirconia (MgPSZ).
(10) This study indicates that distilled water has a significant degradative effect on a magnesia alumina spinel, more likely affecting the mode of fracture rather than the stress corrosion characteristics.
(11) The screening test was used for samples from Magnesia, an area on the east coast of Greece, and Ningxia, a rural area in northeast China.
(12) This paper reports: (i) the first characterisation of the magnesia-fully-stabilised cubic phase at the eutectic composition (13.5 mol% MgO); (ii) the observation of a poorly ordered tetragonal phase on fast cooling ZrO2 (9.3 mol% MgO) from the cubic phase field at 1720 degrees C, and the subsequent growth and ordering of the tetragonal phase precipitates due to further annealing; (iii) the observation of the (partial) transformation of the cubic phase to the ordered delta-phase (Mg2Zr5O12) on annealing MgPSZ at 1100 degrees C for 8 h; and (iv) the observation of the transformation of the tetragonal phase into the orthorhombic phase after cooling in liquid nitrogen, and the reverse transformation after heating to 600 degrees C.
(13) The sequence included: (1) positive reinforcement of bowel movements and the non-occurrence of soiling accidents; (2) self-evaluation; (3) positive practice; (4) milk of magnesia; (5) diet modifications; and (6) a numbered underwear strategy.
(14) We treated them with milk of magnesia, high fibre diet, and bowel training techniques and evaluated outcome at one year when 43% had recovered.
(15) Prior to LC, esters are saponified, and interfering pigments are removed from ester-free extracts by adsorption on magnesia.
(16) The method consists of (a) acetylation of total lipids with pyridine and acetic anhydride, (b) separation of acetylated glycolipids from nonglycolipids on a magnesia-silica gel (Florisil) column, and (c) deacetylation of glycolipid in chloroform-methanol-sodium methoxide.
(17) During washout periods, which lasted two weeks each, patients were stabilized with neomycin plus milk of magnesia.
(18) The purpose of this research was to study fracture initiation in a glaze-strengthened magnesia ceramic substance used as a core material for all-ceramic crowns.
(19) The magnesia investment itself was scarcely affected by induction heating, so the addition of metal powders such as Fe, Ni, Co were investigated.
(20) Alumina, magnesia, titania, and a zirconia-coated silica were chosen for comparison with silica.
Magnesian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.
Example Sentences:
(1) This cavity contains organic material which ensheaths the growing spicule but does not appear to determine the nature of the mineral morph (magnesian calcite) or the crystallographic orientation of the spicule.