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One compound that does this is cocaine, whose painkilling effects were discovered by accident when an ophthalmology intern got some on his tongue.
The lab is a four by four compound of 16 rooms with an entrance on the northwest corner and an exit at the southeast.
When a mosquito bites you, it releases a compound into your body called an anticoagulant that prevents your blood from clotting.
That compound, which we're mildly allergic to, triggers the release of histamine, a chemical that makes our capillaries swell.
These green pigments were made from a compound called cupric hydrogen arsenic.
The compound produced brilliant reds and oranges, which were appealing attributes, if not for the radiation they emitted.
We carefully, over that month, constructed an articulated suit of aluminum armor with compound curves.
Many scientists are betting big on the simplest solution: keep amyloid plaques from reaching that tipping point, which means that drug discovery is largely focused on developing a compound that will prevent, eliminate, or reduce amyloid plaque accumulation.
A molecule is the smallest unit of any chemical compound.
To keep it alive in the laboratory they use a compound called tetracycline.
Over the course of many thousands of years, random compound combinations have given some orchid species precisely the same signature scent as particular insect species.
Interestingly, it accepted to feed on beef from our school kitchen, and we hunted termites around the compound for its dinner every day.
Do they actually produce some kind of amazing compound in their tiny body as well?
And once we have it, we freeze it, and we then pass it in a machine that will separate and purify every chemical compound that is in that venom.
We're actually speaking about a tenth of a millionth of a liter of compound, but we can dilute that compound several thousand times in its own volume of water and then test it against a whole range of nasty stuff, like cancer cells or bacteria.
Conversely, there is no concentration at which the sulfur compound will smell like vodka.
And I said, first of all, let me do the calculation on that compound, bottom right, which is related to coumarin, but has an extra pentagon inserted into the molecule.
Multiple perspectives only compound the horror on display– sending the eyes hurtling around the frame in a futile hunt for peace.
It's a compound curve interior.
Cocaine and heroin are each dangerous, and those dangers compound when the two drugs are combined— even though their behavioral effects may feel like they cancel each other out.
And here is the other interesting thing: when a human being ingests Tamiflu, only 20 percent is metabolized appropriately to be an active compound in the human being.
The rest turns into a stable compound, which survives filtration into the water systems, thereby exposing the very aquatic birds that would carry flu and providing them a chance to breed resistant strains.
As the yeasts feed on the fruit sugars they produce a compound called ethanol— the type of alcohol in alcoholic beverages.
In studying this mysterious phenomenon, Fleming came to realize that the mold was secreting some kind of compound that was killing the bacteria.
The mold was a species in the Penicillium genus, so Fleming dubbed the antibacterial compound “penicillin.”
But during World War II, researchers figured out how to isolate the active compound and grow the mold in larger quantities.
Well, we're creating a compound training library and with collaborators applying these molecules to SARS-CoV-2-infected cells to see which of them exhibit effective activity.
High import duties often compound the problem, sometimes doubling the price of a car.
After many failed attempts, Lemma discovered a compound that, when ingested, made people motivated, happy, creative, loving… in short, their best selves.
Soon, the entire nation’s food supply came from Huxenborg, with the compound mixed in.
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