(n.) The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).
(n.) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.
(n.) Metal; as, the liquid ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three long-time and two ore three respectively shorter observations of scoliotics with syringomyelia are presented and the pertinent literature is discussed including the complex etiopathogenesis.
(2) His views were backed up by a recent survey in newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore , which listed Sicily as the worst region in Italy in quality-of-life rankings, and Palermo as the worst within the region.
(3) But Zhang described $9m of that as legitimate profit from an iron-ore deal, adding: "There are plenty of reasons to argue against the rest of the amount."
(4) Forrest noted Fortescue’s rivals Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton had a break-even price of about US$30 a tonne, and the latter announced plans on Tuesday to slash costs at its WA iron ore mines to US$16 a tonne.
(5) These could include prize iron ore mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
(6) Fibrous actinolite was found in unexpanded Montana vermiculite ore at a maximum concentration of 2.0%.
(7) The main works in the mine were classified as mining, dressing of ores, refining, and clerical work.
(8) Hair arsenic analysis in people living in two locations near an ore smelter and a refinery indicated high-levels compared to those of individuals residing in nonpolluted areas.
(9) In the study area, Cu and Zn emanate from sewage and boat slips (antifouling paints), while Zn probably also originates from coolant water from an electricity power generating station and iron ore exporting facilities.
(10) Microorganisms were studied by capillary microscopy in the surface layer of ooze and in the bottom layer of water in the ore field of the lake Krasnoye.
(11) For example, a post-consumer automotive catalyst has a concentration of platinum group metals (like platinum, palladium and rhodium) more than 100 times higher than in natural ores.
(12) In addition to the financial costs due to lost output and repairs at the mine, which accounts for about 10% of Brazil’s iron ore exports, BHP and Vale are expected to face steep fines as well as lawsuits at a time when iron ore prices are at their lowest point in a decade.
(13) In order to provide drainage, the catheter should be advanced under fluoroscopic control into one of the major radicles ore preferably into the distal common duct beyond the point of obstruction.
(14) Strikes are also under way at gold and iron ore mines and production of 2,000 cars was lost after a wildcat strike at the Toyota plant in Durban.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fortescue Solomon iron ore mine in the Valley of the Kings.
(16) The hazards covered are: accidents, dust (including poisoning by certain ores), high temperature and humidity, noise and vibration, toxic gases, and miscellaneous other hazards.
(17) Forrest described the job cuts, from a workforce of about 4,500, as “personally tragic” and “heartbreaking”, but said the iron ore company was still making profits, with a break-even price of about US$39 a tonne.
(18) An elaborated model for the mining of ores, the applicability to underground workers and the comparability of loading quantities, based on the dosage measurement, are described.
(19) A ustralians are routinely being told that hefty mining taxes would hinder the country’s largest exports of coal and iron ore.
(20) While the iron ore sector went from representing 1.1% of GDP to its current share of 3.9%, the coal industry went from 1.1% of GDP to now representing about 1.4%.
Primordial
Definition:
(a.) First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
(a.) Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.
(n.) A first principle or element.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, in primordial follicles, FSH was restricted to the germ cell but was present in both the oocyte cytoplasm and germinal vesicle.
(2) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(3) This primordial role explains the wide variety of tissues, ranging from the central and peripheral nervous system to the vascular system, that are affected by FGF during the late embryonic, neonatal, and adult phases of development.
(4) Indirect immunofluorescence studies with four monoclonal antibodies raised against carp spermatozoa revealed that monoclonal antibody WCS 29 stained the outer membranes of primordial germ cells in larvae from 3 days after fertilization.
(5) After the treatment in toto of the embryos from various species of Anura by cAMP, the number of primordial germ cells (PGC) in genital ridges is strongly reduced; the most part of the PGC are found in the endoderm.
(6) Mouse lymphocytes and STO fibroblasts were negative, whereas F9 teratocarcinoma cells, intestinal epithelial cells, and rat fetal primordial germ cells were all found to be highly positive for APase activity, in agreement with published results on APase localization in these cells.
(7) This sequence of events suggests that receptor formation may be induced by innervation of primordial cells within the epidermis.
(8) Laparoscopic directed ovarian biopsies show primordial follicles in one and a corpus luteum in the other.
(9) Plastic responses in leaf form resulting from ontogenetic or external influences are initiated very early in primordial development and are brought about by effects on the rate and direction of cell division and expansion in different regions of the primordium.
(10) The primordial ratio was supposed to shift to the modern one guided by the action of primitive nucleotides.
(11) Evidence suggests that cAMP production is not a primordial step in the response to androgen since dibutyryl cAMP did not mimick the androgenic effect, theophylline did not potentiate the response and alpha,beta-methylene ATP, which competitively inhibits adenyl cyclase, failed to alter the androgenic effect.
(12) In the ooplasm the transosome takes part in the development of primordial yolk granules.
(13) Moreau de Tours's classical studies about haschisch had pointed out to a rich symptomatology: visual and auditive hallucinations preceded by the "primordial effect": "the dissociation of ideas".
(14) The resulting space is not homologous with the primordial amniotic cavity; instead, it is a transitory tropho-epiblastic cavity.
(15) In embryos with 6.5-6.7 mm NRL, a part of the primordial proper esophagus extended to the dorsal side of the primordial stomach.
(16) Besides this areas of the primordial germinogen cell generation are found among the cells lining the system of labyrinths and channels of the yolk sac tumour.
(17) It is concluded that exposure of B6 mice to a single dose of MC results in atresia of oocytes in primordial and small primary follicles.
(18) Primordial germ cells (PGCs), which formed in 78% of cases when the presumptive ventral half to the embryo was cultured, occurred in only 48% of cases when the two ventral vegetal blastomeres were cultured alone.
(19) Sympathetic neurotransmitters have been shown to be present in the ovary of the rat during early postnatal development and to affect steroidogenesis before the ovary becomes responsive to gonadotropins, and before the first primordial follicles are formed.
(20) Gonadal biopsy was done on the patients, which disclosed no evidence of primordial follicles in one and severe reduction in the other.