chemical equivalent

On the other hand, a unit process is the chemical equivalent of a unit operation.

"Judging by everything else around here, it should have been the chemical equivalent of that happiness conditioning.

"I've given him the chemical equivalent of a straitjacket.

Generic drugs are chemical equivalents of name-brand drugs whose patents have expired.

Binding into the body's electrical circuitry at the neuromuscular junctions, it started to effect the chemical equivalent of cutting the wires.

It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad.

"The first thing you see is that the fish's fins stiffen up," Dr. Olivera said, from the chemical equivalent of an electric shock.

Now he wondered if the substance circulating in him might be the chemical equivalent of a demon saddling his soul and digging spurs into his heart.

The chemical equivalent of this would be if the thalamus was being partially inhibited by GABA, making it more difficult to relay information to the cortex.

Confirmation of the diagnosis required specialized tests that depended on techniques such as gas chromatography and mass spectrometry that can identify the chemical equivalent of fingerprints.

Strontium-90 Is Found The radioactive contaminants include strontium-90, which is the chemical equivalent of calcium and is incorporated into human bones, where it damages the marrow.

Four hours on the hot pavement of South Boston had baked the pulverized flesh, releasing the chemical equivalent of a dinner bell, and the air was alive with buzzing flies.

In the first decades of the 19th century, Humphry Davy, the chemical equivalent of a big-game hunter, thrilled scientists and public alike by bagging potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, barium and a few other elements.

The trick, he said, is to take a class of chemicals in the oil called fatty acids, from soy oil or another crop source, and alter them so they have the chemical equivalent of a "hook" at one end.

By cooking plastic in an ordinary oven, scientists at Pennsylvania State University seem to have achieved the chemical equivalent of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear: They have made a form of diamond.

One of the tools essential to the synthesis is the chemical equivalent of a carpenter's jig, a molecule that can be used to hold raw-material components in their correct relative positions before joining them with permanent electronic bonds.

The origins of the idea of chemical equivalents might be traced back to Jabir, in whose time it was recognized that "a certain quantity of acid is necessary in order to neutralize a given amount of base.

Due to the high cost or unavailability of natural flavor extracts, most commercial flavorants are nature-identical, which means that they are the chemical equivalent of natural flavors but chemically synthesized rather than being extracted from the source materials.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration first met an astronaut's nutritional needs by assembling in a plastic bag the chemical equivalent of an entree, two side dishes, a dessert and a beverage, which the astronaut was to knead for three minutes and squeeze into his mouth.