What's the difference between rowan and sorbic?

Rowan


Definition:

  • (n.) Rowan tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
  • (2) Additionally, rather than listing Davis’s name, it says “city of Morehead”, the Rowan County seat.
  • (3) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
  • (4) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
  • (5) The campaign, which wants a skyline commission to examine London's future profile, has also obtained the support of the Observer 's architecture critic, Rowan Moore.
  • (6) Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius's OSS 117 films, Mike Myers's Austin Powers movies and Rowan Atkinson's pair of Johnny English efforts are some of the more recent entries.
  • (7) The result is the £19m, 115-metre, ArcelorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, "a loop of string arrested in mid-fall", in the words of our architecture critic Rowan Moore.
  • (8) US federal judge David Bunning, who remanded Davis to US marshals during a high-profile hearing last week, ordered the Rowan County clerk released from jail on the condition she doesn’t interfere with efforts by her deputies to issue marriage licenses.
  • (9) Read more Speaking about the bill before it was voted on Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, and chair of Christian Aid argued in The Guardian that the the UK had to take a lead in protecting unaccompanied minors in Europe .
  • (10) The Rowan Learning Trust, a small academy trust that grew out of a single school in Wigan, was brought in to turn the school’s fortunes around.
  • (11) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
  • (12) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
  • (13) BBC sports editor Dan Rowan tweeted: Dan Roan (@danroan) Action of US sponsors also raises issue of whether broadcasters (who bring more £ into FIFA than corporates) should make a stand too... October 3, 2015
  • (14) In 2008, he stirred controversy when he accused the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, of being "mistaken and naive" for saying that some aspects of sharia law in Britain were unavoidable.
  • (15) The eventwill include speeches from celebrities, the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Bill Gates, as well as a flower installation designed to represent the lives that could be saved if funding for nutrition was improved.
  • (16) Welby's intervention suggests he will not be discouraged from speaking out despite criticism of his predecessor, Rowan Williams, who was accused of meddling in politics .
  • (17) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
  • (18) That goal has been achieved.” The ACLU is relying on the representations of Kentucky’s attorney general and Rowan County attorneys that marriage licenses issued henceforth are legal, Sharp said.
  • (19) Not long after, Carmen and Shannon Wampler-Collins arrived at the Rowan County clerk’s office to obtain a marriage license around 10.45am – but their efforts did not succeed without a hiccup.
  • (20) Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.

Sorbic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C/H/CO/H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on these results, we concluded that the inhibition of putrefactive anaerobe 3679 by sorbate resulted from a stringent-type regulatory response induced by the protonophoric activity of sorbic acid.
  • (2) Synergism between benzoic and sorbic acid was pH dependent.
  • (3) A significant increase in the frequency of sister chromatid exchanges was only observed with the three higher concentrations of sorbic acid when compared to a distilled water control.
  • (4) A much longer incubation period was necessary for toxin to be formed in nitrite-sorbic acid combination treatments as contrasted with controls or nitrite and sorbic acid used individually.
  • (5) Thimerosal (0.001% and 0.004%), sorbic acid (0.1%), potassium sorbate (0.13%), EDTA (0.1%), polyaminopropyl biguanide (0.00005%), and polyquaternium-1 (0.001%) were not effective as tested.
  • (6) Most inhibition of growth was obtained using sorbic acid in all cases and especially at low temperatures, followed by methyl-eugenol and essential oil.
  • (7) Dusting of food with dry sorbic acid is also possible but less recommended because sorbic acid irritates the skin and mucous membranes.
  • (8) A specific example of a naturally occurring compound with dual action, sorbic acid (2,4-hexadienoic acid), is given and its effect on both insects and fungi is discussed.
  • (9) The method assayed consisted of investigating the effect exerted on genetic recombination by the following chemical agents: Chloroacetic Acid, Iodoacetic Acid, Sorbic Acid, Potassium Metabisulfite, Sodium Nitrite, Auramine and Erythrossine.
  • (10) The recovery rate of the method ranged from 96-97% for benzoic acid and 89-92% for sorbic acid, while the variability coefficient was from 1.7-3.5% for benzoic acid and 4.5-6% for sorbic acid.
  • (11) Sorbic acid, sodium sorbate and potassium sorbate were tested for their genotoxic potential in the Syrian hamster embryo (SHE) fibroblast micronucleus assay and the SHE cell transformation test in vitro.
  • (12) The smallest amount of preservatives detectable on chromatography column is 20 ng for benzoic acid and 16 ng for sorbic acid.
  • (13) Strictly anaerobic bacteria were enriched and isolated from freshwater sediment sources in the presence and absence of sulfate with sorbic acid as sole source of carbon and energy.
  • (14) A simple differential-pulse polarographic method using a laboratory-built hanging mercury drop electrode as the working electrode was developed for the determination of sorbic acid in fruit juices and soft drinks.
  • (15) We investigated the effects of the ophthalmic preservatives thimerosal and sorbic acid on the proliferation and survival of rabbit corneal epithelial cells in tissue culture.
  • (16) The effect of three food preservatives, sorbic acid and methyl and butyl esters of p-hydroxybenzoic acid, on the protonmotive force in Escherichia coli membrane vesicles was investigated.
  • (17) Under aerobic conditions, the reaction of sorbic acid with sulphite species, S(IV), involves a pH-dependent oxidative mechanism with the loss of S(IV).
  • (18) Considerable differences in the resistance of two isolates of P. crustosum to sorbic acid were found.
  • (19) Tests were performed with preservatives (formalin, ethylenediamine and sorbic acid), drugs (penicillin G, Benzocaine and sulphathiazole) and other contactants belonging to widely different chemical classes (p-phenylenediamine, triclosan, pyrazole derivatives, nickel and chrome salts, eugenol, isoeugenol and mercaptobenzothiazole).
  • (20) The effects of sorbic and benzoic acids on viability of ascospores varied depending upon the strain and were influenced by other constituents in the heating medium.

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