What's the difference between polarizable and polarized?
Polarizable
Definition:
(a.) Susceptible of polarization.
Example Sentences:
(1) The heats of adsorption of small molecules on bone and apatite surfaces show that these materials have polarizing surfaces which form strong bonds with polar and polarizable molecules.
(2) It is a known fact that such symmetrical hydrogen bonds with a double minimum potential well are extremely polarizable.
(3) Log P can be separated into lipophilic (PL) and hydrophilic (PH) contributions that combine well with polarizability (MR) and hydrogen-bonding (HB) to describe partitioning and non-specific binding in phases that differ greatly from n-octanol.
(4) The catheter features two non-polarizable non-ferrous magnetic electrodes, arranged in such a way that, connected to an external current generator, an electromagnetic field of dipolar configuration can be generated in the heart.
(5) The active centre is treated quantum mechanically, while the environment is represented by interacting partial charges and polarizabilities.
(6) Pi-pi transition energies were analyzed in terms of the dielectric cavity models of Onsager, Block-Walker, which includes dielectric saturation, and a soft dipole model of Suppan, which accounts for PCP's polarizability.
(7) The dipole-dipole interaction was derived from the experimentally obtained cell polarizability.
(8) Correlation analysis assumes that the physicochemical factors governing the transport, metabolism and drug-receptor interaction can be factored into hydrophobic-lipophilic component, polarizability and dispersion forces, electronic and steric effects and into indeterminate factors.
(9) The theory of differential polarization imaging developed previously within the framework of the first Born approximation is extended to higher Born approximations, taking into account interactions among the polarizable groups in the object.
(10) The microenvironments of the histidines in three isoforms of Ca(II)-bound parvalbumin (carp, pI = 4.25; pike, pI = 5.00; rat, pI = 5.50) have been examined with 1H NMR techniques to probe their protonation characteristics and photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarizability (photo-CIDNP).
(11) Infrared absorption is allowed if the vibration is accompanied by a variation of electric dipole moment, however Raman scattering will only be observed if a variation of molecular polarizability appears during the vibration.
(12) Polarizational sensitivity was tested in preliminary experiments.
(13) (The observed properties of the two columns afford insight into steric and polarizability differences among isomers.)
(14) The analysis of the field strength dependence of the electric birefringence yields electric polarizability values which increase sharply with the dilution and are not significantly dependent upon the molecular weight.
(15) There were also significantly fewer casts and less dilatation of Bowman's space and a significantly greater number of polarizable crystals presumed to be oxalate in transplant ATN.
(16) The detailed charge distribution of the DNA and the different polarizabilities of the macromolecule and solvent are included explicitly in the calculations.
(17) The contribution to the susceptibility from atomic polarizabilities, associated with electronic degrees of freedom, is found to be highly uniform.
(18) A model is developed relating the decrease in f to the alignment of TMV with the electric field through its polarizability and aspect ratio.
(19) Using a simple model of linear response of polarizable centers to an electric field, function delta is defined to characterize structural organization of protein polar groups.
(20) The proposal that the acidic lactam-type functionality, common to the type IV PDE inhibitor inotropic agents such as 4-6 and 8-10, mimics the polarizable cyclic phosphate moiety of cAMP suggested that the side chain of 1 may function as an effective surrogate for selected characteristics of the adenine portion of cAMP.
Polarized
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Polarize
Example Sentences:
(1) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(2) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(3) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(4) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(5) The remainder of the radioactivity appeared chromatographically just prior to the bisantrene peak, indicating that compounds more polar than the parent were present as transformation products.
(6) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(7) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(8) These transcriptional experiments provide in vitro confirmation for the latent rho-dependent termination site model of transcriptional polarity.
(9) I evaluated use of the fluorescence polarization technique to measure neocarzinostatin, a proteinaceous antitumor antibiotic, and its antibody, in serum.
(10) During photoirradiation, both in vivo and in vitro, the serum polar (ZE)-bilirubin IX alpha concentration increased remarkably, but unbound-bilirubin values were not affected at all.
(11) Actin is present in chromosomal spindle fibres, with consistent polarity.
(12) The results are summarized in Table I, indicating that the ratio of formation of the cis product (2) increases as a solvent becomes more polar.
(13) No disorganization of the muscle structure was detected by polarized light and electron microscopic inspection.
(14) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(15) These activities define both the polarity of the anterior-posterior (AP) axis and the spatial domains of expression of the zygotic gap genes, which in turn control the subsequent steps in segmentation.
(16) It is released into the urine in large quantities and thus represents a potential candidate for a protein secreted in a polarized fashion from the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells in vivo.
(17) The anodic polarization profiles are presented, as well as scanning electron micrographs and x-ray analysis of the corroded amalgam surfaces.
(18) Descending neurons have opposite structural polarity, arising in the brain and terminating in segmental regions of the fused ventral ganglia.
(19) Immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy experiments demonstrated that while tight junctions demarcate PAS-O distribution in confluent cultures, apical polarity could be established at low culture densities when cells could not form tight junctions with neighboring cells.
(20) Halothane variably increased the current produced (and therefore the estimated oxygen tension) at all polarizing voltages in saline solution equilibrated with either N2 or air.