The word "aliquot" is a correct and usable word in written English.
Aliquot is an adjective used to describe an amount that is equal to some other amount when divided. For example, you could say "I took an aliquot sample of the soil for testing."
Modern genetic techniques can obtain DNA sequences from these viruses, but that cannot tie a particular virus to a particular host.To do so, Dr Giovannoni (pictured) borrowed a technique from homeopathy: he diluted some seawater to such an extent that, statistically speaking, he expected a 100-microlitre-sized aliquot to contain only one or two viruses.
In the wind they vibrate in aliquot parts (i.e., in halves, thirds, fourths…), so that the strings produce the natural overtones (harmonics) of the fundamental note: octave, 12th, second octave, and so on.
I cannot eat more than two or three ounces at a time, but an aliquot of gefilte fish every waking hour nourishes me with much needed protein.
This makes it unlikely that one aliquot contains an uncontrolled chemical that the other does not contain.
In our antibiotics example, this could be some chemical that was put into just one aliquot inadvertently or without knowledge of the experimenter.
In November 1641, however, Regius initiated a new series of disputations, De illustribus aliquot quaestionibus physiologicis (Regius 1641b), in which he challenged Aristotelian theses that were taught by his colleagues in philosophy and theology at the University.
So he mixed each of several hundred aliquots into tubes of water containing P. ubique.
"Neither is it humane or defensible for GPs to be forced to manage patients with complex multiple problems in a pressure-cooker intensity of 10-minute aliquots," he said.
Then, we add to one group of aliquots the suspected antibiotic that is dissolved in phosphate buffer ("treatment").
We start by dividing a bacterial cell culture into several aliquots (samples of same size derived from a homogeneous solution).
This experimental setup makes sure that the treatment and control samples differ only in the presence or absence of the antibiotic, thus ruling out that any observed difference in growth between the treatment and control aliquots is caused not by the suspected antibiotic but by the buffer solution.
