What's the difference between montant and mountant?
Montant
Definition:
(n.) An upward thrust or blow.
(n.) An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile.
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Mountant
Definition:
(a.) Raised; high.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unexpectedly, it was found that glycerol, normally used as an inert and optically ideal mountant, caused profound change in myosin birefringence.
(2) We conclude that avoiding of xylene, and mounting of the preparates in Histoclear (a xylene substitute) and Canada balsam (instead of synthetic resin mountants) yields a sharp and stable indigo precipitate.
(3) Significant fading was detected with all six mountants, although rates varied.
(4) This apparently invalidates results obtained with this mountant.
(5) A simple cytophotometric technique is used to quantitate stain fading of basic aniline dye-stained epoxy-embedded tissues mounted in six different commonly used mountants.
(6) This estimate was made using two different media in contact with the retinal preparation, a miscible mountant tissue culture medium believed to be compatible with the rat retina, and an encapsulating nonmiscible silicone oil which allows only ocular media from the same eye in contact with the outer segments.
(7) The antioxidant beta-mercaptoethanol (BME) used in conjunction with the permanent mountant DPX (DPX-BME) retarded fluorescent fading of mithramycin, acridine orange and Hoechst 33258 stained chicken erythrocytes, each to a varying degree.
(8) The aceto-lacto orcein stain was found to be unsuitable for use with polystyrene because of the solvents and mountant used.
(9) All preparations showed some fading, at rates which varied with different mountants, were greater in the light than in the dark, and were greater in the monochromatic illumination of the microspectrophotometer under working conditions than in normal laboratory light conditions.
(10) A convenient method for double-label autoradiography is described that uses an aqueous mountant, Gelutol (polyvinyl alcohol), which keeps the gelatin spacer in the final autoradiograph permanently swollen to a thickness of around 18 microns in contrast to its 5 microns thickness during exposure of the autoradiograph.
(11) The phloroglucinol-HCl test for lignin can also be made permanent with this acidic mountant.