(n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.
(n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.
(n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
(n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
(n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.
(n.) Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.
(n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
(n.) Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
(n.) Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
(v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
(v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
(v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
(n.) The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
(2) Ursodeoxycholate was the only dihydroxy bile salt which was able to solubilize phospholipid (although not cholesterol) below the critical micellar concentration.
(3) Furthermore, recent investigations into the pharmacokinetics of lithium salts are dealt with.
(4) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
(5) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(6) An investigation of the constitutive ions of salts revealed that their effects were additive only in the case of salts that have no specific binding capability.
(7) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(8) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
(9) In contrast to this, adrenalectomy decreased ANP levels markedly in the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis and preoptic periventricular nucleus, which are reportedly involved in the central regulation of salt and water homeostasis.
(10) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(11) Transcription studies in vitro on repression of the tryptophan operon of Escherichia coli show that partially purified trp repressor binds specifically to DNA containing the trp operator with a repressor-operator dissociation constant of about 0.2 nM in 0.12 M salt at 37 degrees , a value consistent with the extent of trp operon regulation in vivo.
(12) Mixed micelles of bile salt and phospholipids inhibit the lipase-colipase-catalysed hydrolysis of triacylglycerols.
(13) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
(14) One cellulase is buffer-soluble, the other buffer-insoluble but extractable with high salt concentrations.
(15) If salt fluoridation could also be generalized, caries levels could be reduced to a fraction of their initial values.
(16) The major lipase in human milk is dependent on bile salts for activity and probably participates in intestinal digestion of milk lipids in the newborn.
(17) The strain was resistant to bile salts in TCBS medium and demonstrated several properties from a borderline of two Vibrio and Aeromonas species.
(18) Sodium taurolithocholate, a monohydroxy bile salt, does not affect the CD spectrum of CEase, and neither the di- or the monohydroxy bile salt activates the enzyme.
(19) It is therefore suggested that salt water adaptation triggers a cellular reorganization of the epithelium in such a way that leaky junctions (a low resistance pathway) appear at the apex of the chloride cells.
(20) Depending on the differential sensitivity of nuclear T-ag to extraction by salt and detergent, nuclear T-ag could be separated into nucleoplasmic T-ag, salt-sensitive T-ag and matrix-bound T-ag subclasses.
Zirconate
Definition:
(n.) A salt of zirconic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modern ultrasonic transducers mainly employ lead zirconate titanate (PZT) but vinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene copolymer (P (VDF-TrPE)) is becoming more competitive.
(2) The application of zircon (ZrSiO4) that has high refractoriness, high thermal conductivity and a low coefficient of thermal expansion, to quick casting investment was studied.
(3) Disk-shaped implants of spinel, alumina, mullite, zircon, a cast Co-Cr-Mo alloy, and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), were implanted in the paraspinalis muscle of 12 adult, male, white New Zealand rabbits.
(4) Some samples of red mud, phosphogypsum, zircon products and fly ash did show higher levels of radioactivity than would be acceptable on the basis of a criterion formula for gamma-ray activity suggested for use in some OECD countries.
(5) An Ontario plant with 101 workers, producing and using the ceramic compound lead titanate zirconate (LTZ), was investigated.
(6) The acoustic emission from cavitation in the field of an extracorporeal shock wave lithotripter has been studied using a lead zirconate titanate piezoceramic (PC4) hydrophone in the form of a 100-mm diameter focused bowl of 120-mm focal length.
(7) Further heating changed surface structure and led to zircon production in the zirconia fibres.
(8) 2) Dainainvest (Ohara) mainly containing zircon indicated the reduction in surface roughness due to coating.
(9) Small casting of pure titanium and K-metal could be done successfully by the quick casting method using the zircon-phosphoric acid investments.
(10) Results were as follows: 1) The refractory compositions of seven commercialized coating materials were composed of alpha-quartz (SiO2), zircon (ZrSiO4) and zirconium oxide (ZrO2).
(11) The transducer usually consists of a piezoelectric crystal composed of such ceramic materials as barium titanate, lead titanate, zirconate, or lead metaniobate.
(12) Working processes using zircon sand in a factory producing refractory material were studied from the point of view of radiation protection.
(13) Zircon sand contains high concentrations of natural radionuclides and is a typical example of an enhanced source.
(14) Although zircon was slightly observed on the cast surface, the product of reaction was not detected.
(15) Formulation of zircon slurry for coating was zircon flower #600 30%, zircon flower #350 10%, and zircon sand CP 60%, and that for sanding was zircon flower #200.
(16) Immediately after coating with zircon slurry, the coating layer was dried, sintered and dewaxed by thermal shock.
(17) A new family of materials consisting of lead lanthanium zirconate titanate (PLZT) has evolved from recent advances in ferroelectric ceramics.
(18) We used a flat or focused, 10 mm diameter transducer made of lead zirconate-titanate with a resonant frequency of 2 or 3 MHz at a repetition rate of 3.6 kHz.
(19) 3) Liquid investment (Nobilium) and Paint investment (Shofu) having about equal amounts of alpha-quartz and zircon showed as reduction in surface roughness as Dainainvest.
(20) Various zircon powders and phosphoric acid solutions were tested with respect to the higher thermal shock resistance.