(n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
(n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(2) Asked whether they should resign, Robin Geffen, chief investment officer of the fund manager Neptune and a leading critic of the deal, said it would be up to their "individual consciences", but noted the aborted transaction had been "an absurdly ambitious attempt by the Pru to buy a large Asian company, at a very high price, with a very unclear strategy".
(3) Other declared runners include Join Together, who is trained by Paul Nicholls and will be ridden by Daryl Jacob, who teamed up to win this year's National with Neptune Collonges.
(4) In this battle of the gods, Neptune defeated Cibeles, 2-1 after extra time .
(5) Robin Geffen, chief investment officer of the fund manager Neptune, has been leading the rebellion against the deal.
(6) "Although we do not know where the exact transition is between rocky planets and gas planets, Kepler-22 b is likely closer to Neptune," said Fressin.
(7) "Each time I see a close-up of Victorino, I think that he has got the funkiest beard that I have seen in this World Cup (Rigobert Song's blonde dreads and beard were a bit too 'Neptune' - Copyright 'Lawro' - for me)," strums Khalid Majid.
(8) Grab the dog, stroll to the beach, pint at the Neptune - perfect."
(9) The 165-hectare (408-acre) Dunsbury farm is the third major coastal acquisition of the year as the trust celebrates 50 years of its Neptune coastline campaign , launched to safeguard some of the UK’s most iconic seaside landscapes.
(10) She was picked up by a chauffeur and driven in a white Land Rover to her home near Cannes where she switched cars to a grey Land Rover at 2.30am and drove to the six-bed Villa Neptune in Miramar on the coast between Nice and Marseille.
(11) Facebook is facing renewed criticism after its software appears to have blocked a photograph of a 16th-century statue of Neptune that stands in the Piazza del Nettuno in the Italian city of Bologna, claiming it is “sexually explicit”.
(12) They've been there quite a lot recently – two Europa League titles and a European Super Cup have ensured that – and Neptune was ready too, but few truly expected this: Atlético won the Copa del Rey.
(13) But Holst's approach was astrological, not astronomical, reflecting not scientific knowledge but the alleged effects of the planets on the human psyche: Jupiter the bringer of joy, Neptune the mystic and Mars the bringer of war.
(14) Played by Kristen Bell , she existed for three seasons on US television, plying her trade in the corruption-ridden west-coast town of Neptune, where her dad was the former sheriff who had been hounded out of office – and her classmates treated her as a pariah.
(15) Back in the 1950s, during celebrations for schoolchildren graduating, they used to cover up Neptune,” Barbari added.
(16) Then, in the season’s second half, the dean is murdered, leaving Veronica to solve it since Neptune’s police force are absolutely useless.
(17) Local writer Elisa Barbari had chosen the statue, which shows Neptune naked and holding a trident, to illustrate her Facebook page “Stories, curiosities and views of Bologna.” But the Nettuno picture fell foul of the social media giant’s privacy policies, the Daily Telegraph reported .
(18) At the very least it can be shown for the 6...10 MeV electron radiation of the linear accelerator Neptun 10p that all required distributions can be calculated from each separately measured depth dose and cross-distribution.
(19) For 105 patients with healthy lungs (76 breast carcinomas, 29 testicular tumors) irradiated from 1981 to 1983 with the linear accelerator Neptune 10p.
(20) Vinnie Van Lowe is still a creep Before he was the keystone of Thomas’ workplace comedy Party Down, actor Ken Marino swaggered about Neptune interfering with, occasionally assisting, and providing a sleazier alternative to Mars Investigations.
Neptunium
Definition:
(n.) A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.
Example Sentences:
(1) No homology could be detected between prosthecate bacteria of the genera Rhodomicrobium, Prosthecomicrobium, Ancalomicrobium, or Caulobacter, and Hyphomicrobium strain EA-617 or H. neptunium LE-670.
(2) Diets depleted of or enriched with hydroxy acids did not modify retention of neptunium but increased urinary excretion with increasing hydroxy acid content.
(3) These results indicate that bud formation is coupled to chromosome replication in H. neptunium.
(4) Absorption and retention of neptunium were determined in baboons after intragastric administration of neptunium nitrate solutions at pH 1.
(5) Iodine-131, ruthenium-103, and neptunium-239 are present as contaminants in the eluate of 99Mo-99mTc generators loaded with 99Mo prepared by thermal-neutron irradiation of enriched 98Mo.
(6) Very little or no homology was detected between the amino acid-utilizing strain Hyphomicrobium neptunium and other Hyphomicrobium strains, although significant homology was observed with the two Hyphomonas strains examined.
(7) The relationship between chromosome replication and morphogenesis in the budding bacterium Hyphomicrobium neptunium has been investigated.
(8) On chronic supply to the body of a mixture of nuclear division products lanthanum-140, barium-140, tellurium-132, neodymium-147, neptunium-239, zirconium-95, niobium-95, iodine-131, cerium-141, -144, cesium-134, -137, and ruthenium-103 are detectable in liver tissue within the first months.
(9) Data obtained in baboons when low masses of neptunium were administered suggest that the f1 factor used by ICRP should be decreased.
(10) The technique, which utilizes calculated neutron fluence-to-kerma conversion factors, is based upon the combination of measurements with calibrated neptunium-237 and uranium-238 pulse fission chambers to obtain a response which matches the variation of kerma with neutron energy.
(11) But in bone there are indications that, due to microscopic differences in the distribution of the alpha-particle radiation dose, the efficiency of bone cancer induction may increase in the order americium-241 less than plutonium-239 less than neptunium-237.
(12) Neptunium-237 absorption, however, was not increased by citrate; probably because its oxidation state was reduced from 237Np(V) to 237Np(IV) by the medium and by the GI content.
(13) The binding capacity of transferrin for neptunium in vivo was found to decline when the iron level in blood serum was increased.
(14) After injection in the rat of soluble neptunium salt, the distribution of this element was studied at the subcellular level by electron microscopy and electron probe microanalysis.
(15) Isolation of the mucopeptide by use of sodium dodecyl sulfate was successful only with cell walls of H. neptunium, thus revealing a difference between the walls of the two strains.
(16) The available data indicate that as for plutonium, thorium, americium and curium, the iron transport protein, transferrin, may be the main carrier protein for neptunium in mammalian blood serum.
(17) Electron probe X-ray analysis of this cluster have shown that they contain neptunium associated with phosphorus.
(18) In the nuclear fuel cycle the transuranic radionuclides plutonium-239, americium-241 and neptunium-237 would probably present the most serious hazard to human health if released into the environment.
(19) Chemical analysis of cell walls obtained from Hyphomicrobium B-522 and from a morphologically and nutritionally distinct organism, Hyphomicrobium neptunium (ATCC 15444), showed that the organisms have a similar cell wall composition, which is typical of gram-negative bacteria.
(20) These results suggest that H2S was oxidized to sulfur and sulfite ion by two types of sulfide oxidase and sulfur oxidase in H. neptunium ATCC 15444, and that the sulfite ion changed rapidly to thiosulfate through a non-enzymatic reaction with sulfur.