What's the difference between opalescent and opaline?

Opalescent


Definition:

  • (a.) Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among both exposed and non-exposed aged over 45, there were no significant differences with regard to the characteristics of lens opacities--prevalence (19 in the 21 exposed; 10 in the 16 non-exposed), distribution of the location, and importance and type (opalescence or discontinuous opacities).
  • (2) The severity of nuclear opalescence (NO), cortical (C) and posterior subcapular cataract (P) was graded in a masked fashion using the LOCS II standards.
  • (3) The rate of this reaction can be estimated roughly from the initial rate (Vo) of the accompanying turbidity increase ("super-opalescence") of the acto-S-1 solution.
  • (4) This may indicate that there is considerable variation in inheritance patterns for hereditary opalescent dentine and that this trait does not always exhibit 100 percent penetrance.
  • (5) Furthermore, selenite induced the gradual development of opalescence and the oxidation of sulfhydryl in the lens protein solution.
  • (6) At pH 1-7 the alpha-particles dissociated into their constituent beta-particles with a consequent decrease in the opalescence of the solution.
  • (7) A family is described in which two females are more severely affected by hereditary opalescent dentine than the males.
  • (8) Prednisolone-induced aggregates result in an opalescence in the crystallins solution which is reversed by the addition of dithiothreitol.
  • (9) Residual Triton X-100 was removed from the opalescent vesicle suspension by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and subsequent dialysis.
  • (10) Shortcomings in previous attempts have been corrected by objectively aligning a "blind" eye with the center of a translucent opalescent screen.
  • (11) A potential of 100 V was applied for 12 hours, then raised to 200 V for another 12 hours, and finally to 300 V until opalescence appeared at the bottom of the tube.
  • (12) Colonies of C. perfringens on LLA had typical opalescent zones, a distinctive feature that can aid in presumptive identification.
  • (13) The presence of the regulatory light chain did not affect hyper-opalescence (or super-opalescence), since there were no significant differences between papain S-1 and chymotryptic S-1 with respect to these phenomena.
  • (14) We conclude that the most likely mechanism responsible for the zones is a light-scattering effect caused by antibodies attached to the viral surface and that the quality of the opalescence to some extent seems to be dependent on the Fc-fragment.
  • (15) High activity of MPO was found for retina and lens of healthy men and elderly people with lens opalescence.
  • (16) The oviposition-stimulating factor was localized in the opalescent gland of the male accessory gland and was transferred to the female via the spermatophore during copulation.
  • (17) Adjacent filaments in the bundles had a distance of approximately 180 A. Hyper-opalescence occurred at r approximately equal to 1 when KCOOCH3 was used instead of KCl.
  • (18) Impairment of catalytic efficiency can only be documented in opalescent test solutions in which the insecticides are present in excess of their solubility limit.
  • (19) We have found that after the initial rise in scattering, there is a further gradual increase in scattering (we call it "super-opalescence").
  • (20) A fraction possibly corresponding to VHDL (very high density lipoproteins, 77% protein, 23% lipid) was also detected but appeared contaminated by a protein-rich opalescent material.

Opaline


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ink and opaline are ejected by a series of coordinated pumping movements of the mantle, gill, and parapodia that closely resemble triggered 'respiratory pumping' or 'Interneuron II' episodes (Kupfermann and Kandel 1969; Byrne and Koester 1978; Hening 1982).
  • (2) Opaline silica deposits are formed by many vascular (higher) plants.
  • (3) Pastel mink were intermediate to the opalines, and dark mink indicative of strain differences in the genetic control of gonadal histamine synthesis and inactivation.
  • (4) Ink and opaline ejections are directed to the front or back of the animal by characteristic responses of the siphon, mantle, and parapodia.
  • (5) During the years 1970, 1971 and 1972, the irregular antibodies were systematically screened in Toulouse on all blood donors with a manual technique on opaline plate using enzyme treated red cell tests (papain).
  • (6) Testicular histamine content was higher in December (the time of sexual quiescence) that in March (breeding time) in opaline mink.
  • (7) The defensive secretions, ink and opaline, are directed along the anterior-posterior axis at the source of noxious stimulation.

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