(v. t.) A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.
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Spalt
Definition:
(n.) Spelter.
(a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.
(a.) Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
(a.) To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.
Example Sentences:
(1) The region-specific homeotic gene spalt (sal) acts in two separate domains in the head and tail region of the Drosophila melanogaster embryo.
(2) The expression of this newly discovered gene, spalt major (salm) is strongly repressed in gain-of-function mutants that express Antp in the antennal disc.
(3) Rhabdomyolysis without renal failure was noted after suicidal ingestion of 29 tablets of Spalt N containing 7.25 g of acetaminophen, 7.25 g of phenazone and 1.45 g of caffeine by a 29 year-old weighing 73 kg.
(4) The differences in the SPALT method can be ascribed to the possibility that this assay measures not only "intact" caeruloplasmin but also paraneoplastic substances with "caeruloplasmin-like immunoactivity".
(5) The enhancer detector in this strain is located near a similarly regulated gene at the spalt (sal) locus, which encodes a homeotic function involved in embryonic head and tail development.