The phrase "amounts of a second" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a quantity of time, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The experiment required amounts of a second to measure the reaction time accurately."
Alternatives: "quantities of time" or "time intervals".
As with other corals, the symbiotic algae in millepora colonies are largely of one type, with very small amounts of a second type.
The simultaneous measurement of these two transcripts in embryos of both sexes presents, therefore, a challenging situation, because it requires that one amplicon (Oct4) is reliably generated with equal efficiency and sensitivity in the absence as well as in the presence of high amounts of a second amplicon (Xist).
The ZrN film has a fine fibrous structure composed of the desirable stable ZrN phase together with a small amount of a second ZrO2 phase.
Of course, the economic policies that caused Gingrich's staff members to leave can be summed up in two numbers that have emerged in the last day: his campaign is about a million dollars in debt, and, by coincidence, a million dollars was also the amount of a second line of credit Gingrich had at Tiffany.
Now, a paper in the 25 January issue of Cell shows that the onset of tolerance in rats can be slowed by giving the animals a small amount of a second painkiller.
A minute amount of a second morpholino blocking rbpj translation, which drove Rbpj protein abundance back to its initial level, restored segmentation, strongly supporting the specificity of the target protector morpholino (Cibois et al., 2010b).
Most calcium carbonate comes in one of two crystalline structures, calcite and aragonite, with a small amount of a third, vaterite.
Furthermore, in most cases an immiscible binary blend cannot be made homogeneous by introducing a small amount of a third polymer ('compatibilizer').
Besides, Congress stripped away the deductibility of personal travel for executives in 2004 by allowing companies to deduct from taxes only the rough amount of a first-class ticket, far less than private jet travel costs.
Another approach included the addition of a small amount of a third metal, such as Pt, and the utilisation of supported trimetallic Au Pd-Pt nAu Pd-Ptcles [30].
TLC and proton NMR data also indicated that island root samples all contained the same two alkaloids in similar proportions with a small amount of a third compound in one sample.
