What's the difference between mineral and undersaturated?
Mineral
Definition:
(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.
Undersaturated
Definition:
(a.) Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the F solution was undersaturated with respect to CaF2, the F incorporated into the enamel was believed to be in apatitic form and not as CaF2.
(2) The renal stone samples dissolved more slowly at all undersaturations, exhibited increased kinetic orders of reaction, and showed reduced sensitivity to solution hydrodynamics.
(3) The kinetics of dissolution of powdered bovine enamel and of human enamel, both untreated and extracted with either hypochlorite or chloroform, has been studied using a constant solution composition technique in undersaturated solutions of calcium phosphate (total molar calcium concentration, TCa = 0.3 to 13.1 X 10(-3) mol L-1, total molar phosphate, Tp = 0.18 to 7.9 X 10(-3) mol L-1) at an ionic strength of 0.15 mol L-1, and pH = 4.5.
(4) Detection of bubbles by Doppler ultrasound confirms the potential importance of the phenomenon to shallow saturation diving and holds promise for better quantitification of its effects as well as those of its counterpart, isobaric undersaturation, which can confer a decompression advantage.
(5) A constant composition method has been used to examine the dissolution kinetics of calcium oxalate renal stones over a wide range of undersaturation in vitro.
(6) 56 supersaturated urine specimens and 44 undersaturated specimens were incubated with collagen (Sigma collagen).
(7) However, gallbladder bile from patients with stones composed of 97-100% crystalline cholesterol was on average just saturated with cholesterol when the gallbladder was functioning and undersaturated when it was not.
(8) As a result, pigment-stone patients produced bile undersaturated with cholesterol at a lower bile salt output than cholesterol-stone patients, and thus they would be less likely to produce supersaturated bile during low bile salt output such as that occurring during an overnight fast.
(9) During reabsorption of the bile salt pool from the intestines (stimulated flow), hepatic bile is characteristically undersaturated with cholesterol.
(10) When the liquid phase is undersaturated with respect to fluorapatite no redeposition of mineral lost can occur.
(11) The investigations reported herein demonstrate complete dissolution of human struvite urinary stones during 6 weeks of perfusion in vitro with undersaturated human urine.
(12) Furthermore, instead of being supersaturated, brushite in many urine specimens of GIII was undersaturated and its mean CPR was even significantly less than that of GI (P less than 0.01).
(13) Because the F solution was undersaturated with respect to calcium fluoride (CaF2), the F incorporated into the root is apparently apatitic and not CaF2.
(14) This did not appear to change for 1 cm or 4 cm chamber lengths, but it did change to about 2.2 ms and about 44 ms for over- and undersaturated gas conditions, respectively.
(15) Further stirring changed the composition so that it became undersaturated with both DCPD and OCP and shifted toward, but did not reach, a value so low as to be saturated with hydroxyapatite (OHAp, (Ca5(PO4)3OH).
(16) Supersaturation of the urine with brushite, which was present in 19 of the 22 patients, was reduced significantly (P < 0.001) in all during thiazide therapy, and to the undersaturated range in 16.
(17) Struvite and apatite crystals dissolved in Proteus-infected urine in which undersaturation was maintained by urease inhibition.
(18) In vivo undersaturation of the receptors was observed in all tumors.
(19) During long-term treatment with alpha-mercaptopropionylglycine (average dose 1,193 mg. per day) urinary cystine levels were maintained at 350 to 560 mg. per day and urinary cystine was kept at undersaturated levels.
(20) It was concluded that any dissolution of enamel is caused by an undersaturation with respect to enamel apatite.