What's the difference between precipitate and supersaturate?
Precipitate
Definition:
(a.) Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.
(a.) Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.
(a.) Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong.
(a.) Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease.
(n.) An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface.
(v. t.) To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.
(v. t.) To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict.
(v. t.) To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol.
(v. i.) To dash or fall headlong.
(v. i.) To hasten without preparation.
(v. i.) To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See Precipitate, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(2) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
(3) It could be demonstrated by radioimmune precipitation of virus labeled with[35S]methionine that all three polypeptides are specific for hog cholera virions.
(4) Nine of the in vivo synthesized early polypeptides can be precipitated specifically from infected cell extracts by antisera with specificity against early adenovirus proteins.
(5) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(7) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
(8) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
(9) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
(10) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
(11) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
(12) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(13) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
(14) In this study we have compared purified C4A and C4B with regard to their ability to prevent immune complex precipitation and to enhance the binding of both preformed and nascent immune complexes to the receptor CR1 on red cells.
(15) A lesser inhibitory effect (a decrease in the rate of precipitation) was observed when gallbladder bile was diluted but was lost after 10-fold dilution.
(16) The first step is the preparation of a globulin-enriched fraction by precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 50% saturation, or of an immune-complex-enriched fraction by precipitation with 5% polyethylene glycol 6000.
(17) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
(18) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
(19) The translation of mRNA for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase was studied using a polyamine-depleted reticulocyte lysate supplemented with mRNA from rat prostate and the antiserum to precipitate the proteins corresponding to S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.
(20) Only heart rate correlated closely with the precipitation of angina.
Supersaturate
Definition:
(v. t.) To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order for a stone to form, the following conditions would seem to be necessary; transient supersaturation of the saliva in Ca++ and PO4--, a pH greater than normal, intracellular precepitation of amorphous tricalcium phosphate which is transformed into crystalline hydroxyapatite and, then, the fixation of crystals on a "matrix" such as desquamated cells, fibrils and collagens.
(2) Bounded, bulk, and perfusion-diffusion models are described in supersaturation, statistical, and thermodynamic frameworks.
(3) The degree of supersaturation with respect to fluorapatite determines the uptake of fluoride in the surface layer and its mineral content.
(4) In earlier studies, we concluded that biliary cholesterol supersaturation may be a necessary but not sufficient cause for gallstone formation.
(5) Model predictions based upon these data compare favorably with published reports of isobaric inert gas supersaturation, as well as several previously unpublished observations.
(6) The capacity for supersaturation with cholesterol is greater for bile salt-monoolein than for bile salt-oleate micelles.
(7) Bile became supersaturated with cholesterol in 7 female adult baboons with exteriorized enterohepatic circulations during 0.2 g per kg per day of cholestyramine treatment.
(8) All samples were supersaturated with calcium carbonate.
(9) The bile more frequently showed cholesterol supersaturation among the women who used oral contraceptives than among the control group.
(10) Normal subjects frequently have supersaturated bile.
(11) This maximum solubility was in excess of that predicted theoretically and may be due to supersaturation.
(12) The results of the present constant composition (CC) studies show that defect apatites may be formed under conditions of sustained supersaturation with a non-stoichiometric coefficient dependent on the pH of the growth medium.
(13) These liquid-crystalline states are likely to be transient in Ch-unsaturated biles, but may persist in Ch-supersaturated human biles because of their high Ch contents which retard or inhibit these phase transitions.
(14) After more than 12 months of PSC medication, citrate and pH tended toward the pretreatment baseline values, while hydroxyapatite supersaturation and calcium had already returned to pretreatment values.
(15) This paper is concerned with the theretical background and implications of isobaric supersaturation and bubble formation in the microcirculation following an abrupt shift from one inspired inert gas to another.
(16) Salt encrustation apparently occurred when rapid cooling of the lake resulted in supersaturation and crystallization of the dissolved salt.
(17) Boiling the hand warmers redissolves the sodium acetate in the water in the water released from the crystals, recreating the supersaturated solution, so you are ready for another chilly evening walk.
(18) In this study we have investigated the effect of this activity on the dynamics of lipid solubilization in supersaturated model bile.
(19) The measurements, conducted on freshly prepared protein solutions supersaturated more than 3-fold, indicate the simultaneous presence of two scatterer populations which can be assigned to individual protein molecules and to large particles.
(20) Although the lipid composition (4.4% cholesterol, 5.6% phospholipid, and 90% bile salt) was within the predicted range for a single phase of micellar (or vesicular) liquid in solution, it was supersaturated with cholesterol because of low absolute concentrations of bile salt and phospholipid.