(n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
(n.) An instrument or implement made of steel
(n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
(n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
(n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
(n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
(n.) A chalybeate medicine.
(n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
(n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
(n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
(n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that there is a significant difference in bond strengths between enamel and stainless steel with strength to enamel the greater.
(2) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(3) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
(4) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(5) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(6) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(7) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
(8) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(9) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
(10) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(11) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
(12) Glycaemia, glucosuria, plasma insulin, and the rates of appearance Ra and disappearance Rd of glucose (kinetics of double-labelled glucose, evaluated according to Steele's equation in its non-steady-state version) were observed under the following conditions, starting from normoglycaemia during glucose-controlled insulin infusion (GCII): (I) insulin withdrawal, (II) insulin withdrawal and glucose infusion, (III) constant i.v.
(13) Forty-five percutaneous trephine lung biopsies using the Steel apparatus were performed on 38 patients.
(14) It remains an open question whether the syndrom of Richardson-Steele-Olszewski is a syndrome of its own or whether it is just a variety of parkinsonism.
(15) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
(16) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
(17) Since the heart of the MRI is a large magnet, certain metals such as stainless steel can cause artifacts in the images.
(18) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
(19) Bipolar stainless steel wire electrodes were placed unilaterally into the costal and crural portions of the diaphragm and into the parasternal intercostal muscle in the second or third intercostal space.
(20) The recovery of haemopoiesis in Steel mutant mice following 1 Gy sublethal irradiation is described.
Titanium
Definition:
(n.) An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
(3) Since the introduction of osseointegrated titanium implants for bone-anchored facial and dental prostheses, an increasing number of irradiated patients are being treated with this technique.
(4) A knee simulator was used to study the wear of carbon fiber reinforced UHMWPE (Poly Two) (Poly Two is a registered trademark of Zimmer, USA) tibial and patellar components against Ti-6A1-4V, titanium nitride (TiN)-coated Ti-6A1-4V, and cobalt-chromium-molybdenum femoral components.
(5) Using the osseointegration method, a prospective study was conducted involving seven adult patients who were treated with titanium implants used as rigid anchorage units.
(6) Titanium-nickel alloy composed of 50% by weight of each metal has unique thermal shape-memory properties, with a transition temperature of 20 degrees C. Each stent consists of one wire with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
(7) New light-curable adhesive opaque resins were prepared using 4-methacryloxyethyl trimellitate anhydride (4-META), triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA), di (methacryloxyethyl) trimethylhexamethylene diurethane (UDMA) and titanium dioxide.
(8) X-ray microprobe analysis identified particles which related to the known exposures, superimposed on a background of other particles related to smoking (kaolinite and mica) or to the general environment (silicon, titanium, and iron).
(9) The nickel-titanium wires, however, showed a clear deviation form the linearity with a curviform course.
(10) We present eight cases of chemical burns of the eyes from titanium tetrachloride, an acidic corrosive liquid.
(11) The difficulties encountered in casting titanium and its alloys have until recently hindered any widespread use of titanium in restorative dentistry.
(12) A prospective controlled study was undertaken in which in 100 children a titanium ventilation tube was inserted in one ear, and a Paparella silicone tube was inserted in the contralateral ear as a control.
(13) Results demonstrated excellent bone adaptation to both titanium and ceramic implants.
(14) A new process of plasma-spraying hydroxyapatite--an entirely biocompatible, bioceramic material--onto porous, titanium alloy components promotes bone ingrowth into the components resulting in implant fixation, which is superior to current methods of cemented or cementless fixation.
(15) The titanium alloy strips were treated with citric acid, stannous fluoride, tetracycline HCl, chlorhexidine gluconate, hydrogen peroxide, chloramine T, sterile water, a plastic sonic scaler tip, and an air-powder abrasive unit.
(16) In vitro tests demonstrated approximately sevenfold greater filter length shortening (a measure of filter splaying) for the titanium GF in response to a given applied load.
(17) It was found that Ti(IV) inhibited oxidation when the substrate, procarbazine, was coordinated to titanium.
(18) In the case of titanium there were no cells in the interface which consisted instead of a proteoglycan layer of about 200-400 A width.
(19) An uncommon complication of percutaneous insertion of the titanium Greenfield filter is angulation at discharge with clustering of the limbs to one side of the vena cava.
(20) Plasma protein exchange reactions were also studied on hydrophilic titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), and silver (Ag) surfaces.