Sentence examples for compounds less than from inspiring English sources

The simultaneous strikes against two Taliban leadership compounds less than 10 miles apart shortly after midnight suggested that American forces hoped to use the element of surprise to seize high-ranking militia leaders as well as their computer hard drives and phone books, which have proved valuable in tracking down other terrorist cells.

Thus, they induce both degradation of organic pollutants and recovery of metals in one-pot systems, operable at traces of the target compounds (less than ppm).

In this study, 13 bioassays were eliminated considering their relatively small number of tested compounds (less than 16 000).

Such cellular biological effects are observed at doses of hit compounds less than the in vitro biochemical IC50 detected for EZH2.

Furthermore, hydrophilic compounds (less than 600 700 Da, e.g., for E. coli) can diffuse only through the outer membrane via porins which act as a very effective permeability barrier, making Gram bacteria less susceptible as Gram [ 56].

The detection limit (LOD), estimated as 3 r (three times the background noise) (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry IUPACcriterionion), was similar for all the analyzed compounds (less than 9 μg/kg for all compounds).

Another turning point came last July when Pakistani forces stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad, where militants had armed themselves in a compound less than a mile from ISI headquarters and demanded the imposition of Islamic law.

After the day's final photo, they held hands and ambled together out a side door, stepping up into one of the two Secret Service SUVs waiting to take them back to their compound less than two miles away.

Shells smaller than C60 have been discovered, but some of their constituent pentagons must share edges; this makes the smaller network compounds less stable than C60.

Caustic alkalis or alkali compounds whose anions can react with Ca2+ to form compounds less soluble than calcium hydroxide can act as activators for slag.

The hydrophobic contact of candidate compounds was less than control compound, but all of them formed hydrophobic contact with amino acid residue Thr160.