(v. i.) An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
(v. i.) A mine.
(v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
(a.) Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
(a.) Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(2) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(3) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(4) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(5) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
(6) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(8) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
(9) These data indicate improved bone mineralization as compared with previously reported data from very-low-birth-weight neonates.
(10) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(11) Artificially produced mineral waters which are identical to natural ones are also applied.
(12) The method of mineral estimation using phalanges is described and its reproducibility was tested on 17 parameters.
(13) Secondary structural features of bovine amelogenin, a hydrophobic protein of developing enamel implicated in ename mineralization, are derived using 2D NMR spectroscopy in solution and molecular mechanics-dynamics studies.
(14) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
(15) Microbiological analyses of sediments located near a point source for petrogenic chemicals resulted in the isolation of a pyrene-mineralizing bacterium.
(16) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
(17) Unsupplemented human breast milk may not provide sufficient calcium and phosphorus for the rapidly growing preterm infant to match the accumulation that should have taken place in utero and to permit normal bone mineralization.
(18) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
(19) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(20) These diets were: diet C consisting of commercial Rat Chow: diet CG, the same diet diluted with 70% glucose calories, diet A, a simulated "American" diet made up of 25 widely used foods, diet AS, the same diet supplemented with small amounts of 25 vitamins and minerals.
Sepiolite
Definition:
(n.) Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sepiolite from Franklin is of moderate crystallinity and consists of soft, flexible mass-fiber.
(2) The results obtained allow the conclusion that the collagen-sepiolite complexes are adhesive for cells.
(3) Asbestiform sepiolite has been found in a zinc deposit at Franklin, New Jersey.
(4) Sepiolite is manganoan, while talc contains little manganese, suggesting differences in manganese substitution in these minerals and providing evidence against solid-state replacement.
(5) To determine whether O2- was elicited in response to a variety of asbestiform fibres, AM lavaged from Fischer 344 rat lungs were exposed in vitro to equivalent non-toxic amounts of crocidolite asbestos, erionite, Code 100 fibreglass, sepiolite, and their non-fibrous analogues, riebeckite, mordenite and glass particles.
(6) F contents of tibiae from the sepiolite group (at 60 or 90 d of age) were plotted against tibia F concentrations from groups receiving additional sodium fluoride in the diet.
(7) Pseudomorphous foliated texture and cross-cutting relationships indicate replacement of talc by sepiolite.
(8) A modified fluoride (F) bioassay procedure based on the method of standard additions and using chicks was tested for the determination of F availability in sepiolite.
(9) The data presented here suggest that talc can be unstable in a low-temperature hydrothermal environment, altering under certain conditions to form sepiolite.
(10) The fact that sepiolite has been previously unrecognized and misidentified at Franklin is a case in point.
(11) Comparison with other sepiolite samples suggests that increased crystallinity among sepiolites parallels increased fiber length, while disorder appears to be associated with flexibility.
(12) On the basis of their classification are chosen standards: sepiolite, wollastonite, palygorskite, etc., and their dispersion in needle-like fine dispersive particles, is studied.
(13) According to these studies the sepiolite-collagen complexes do not modify the studied features of the fibroblasts.
(14) Compared with fluoride from NaF, the relative bioavailability of fluoride from sepiolite was found to be very weak.
(15) Sepiolite, a magnesium silicate, binds collagen resulting in a complex which has a gel-like structure when hydrated.
(16) Attapulgite (palygorskite) and sepiolite are fibrous clay minerals used commercially as components in a wide variety of products including oil and grease adsorbents, carriers for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and pesticides.
(17) chrysotile with short fibers, UICC crocidolite, amosite, and 19 non-asbestos samples such as, glass fibers, calcium silicates, sepiolites and some clay minerals.
(18) The studies reported here are part of a series of experiments designed to characterize connective tissue cell response to sepiolite (magnesium silicate)-collagen complexes.
(19) These results indicate that fluorine from sepiolite was not available.
(20) Similarities in composition and other analytical parameters may cause sepiolite to be mistaken for fibrous talc or chrysotile in environmental samples.