Materials and Methods: Dried galls of Quercus infectoria were crushed into small pieces and powdered in an electric grinder.
Purification of mined platinum, phosphorus and uranium involve similar techniques: the rock is crushed into small particles, which are then subjected to varying solutions to sort out extraneous elements by solubility (Long, n.d.) ("Most sophisticated industrial inorganic chemistry", n.d.).
Firstly, the bones were crushed into small chips.
For traditional decoction, the 102 g of mixed crude herbs DG, CX, BS, SD, TR and HH at the weight ratio of 3 3 3 3 3 2 were crushed into small pieces, and then extracted twice in 1 and 0.8 L of water, with refluxing times of 2 and 1.5 h, respectively.
Fresh-frozen tumor samples were crushed into small pieces in liquid nitrogen and homogenized in 2 ml of M-PER lysis buffer containing protease inhibitors and iodoacetamide (all Pierce Biotechnology, Rockford, IL).
Briefly, propolis (10 g) was crushed into small pieces in a mortar and mixed vigorously with 34.85 ml 80% (V/V) ethanol during 48 h at 37 ± 1°C.
The rehydrated acrylamide was crushed into small pieces and allowed to digest overnight with 30 μg of TPCK-treated trypsin (Worthington) at 37ºC.
After the battery is crushed into small pieces and washed, Pb compounds are manually or mechanically detached from the plastic and sulfuric acid solution.
One to twenty four hours after the heat shock treatment, regenerative callus, leaves and stems were crushed into small pieces by using a Waring blender (pieces as small as possible but without destroying individual cells).
