"compound" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Organic or carbon-based compounds called super plasticizers have cut down on concrete's water content without reducing its fluid nature when wet.
- Naturally occurring bacteria in organic matter emit chemicals, called enzymes, that enable them to feed on carbon-based compounds by oxidizing them.
- With that much carbon-based compound suddenly transmuted into silicon, there might be a hellish lot of loose radiation in the air, and he wasn't taking any chances.
- That means it is not a carbon-based compound.
- We could indeed extend our theme of symbiosis, to suggest that modern life at its most fundamental is a co-operation between organic, carbon-based compounds, and water.
- The carbon-based compounds causing the smog suggests a possible landscape dotted with ethane lakes and tarlike hydrocarbon deposits.
- This instrument, when set to kill, coagulates proteins, which are carbon-based compounds.
- Streaks across the flat terrain may be dunes of windblown carbon-based compounds, what passes for topsoil on Titan.
- The contaminants that pollute the indoor environment are almost entirely based upon organic or carbon-based compounds.
- Total organic carbon is an indirect measure of pollution and refers to all carbon-based organic compounds, which can range from harmless carbohydrates to toxic petrochemicals.
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