Although Kroto, Curl, and Smalley discovered this fundamental new form of carbon as a synthetic product in the course of attempting to simulate the chemistry in the atmosphere of giant stars, fullerenes were later found to occur naturally in tiny amounts on Earth and in meteorites.
7 In vitro binding assays, attempting to simulate intestinal milieu, as well as extensive pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies in man, have suggested somewhat greater specificity for the second-generation BAS colesevelam.
Die-hard fans of America's brand of football revel in every opportunity to mock the dives taken by soccer players attempting to simulate a foul in order to get a call from the referee.
The experimental design of this study was carefully chosen to target adaptive genes, in tolerant and susceptible genotypes, by attempting to simulate natural conditions.
Computational studies attempting to simulate alterations in heart rate using as a basis the biophysical findings used here used an SA node/atrial model established and implemented on previous occasions (Lei et al. 2005).
With its rapped verses, Patton said he was attempting to simulate the same vibe as Blondie's Rapture, though the lyrics are about simulating something else.
Mars500, conducted at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow, attempted to simulate some of the psychological and physiological challenges of a 520-day manned mission to Mars by isolating a crew in a hermetically sealed, confined, spacecraft-like environment.
In one of the strangest safety drills ever seen, a zoo in Japan has attempted to simulate the escape of one of its animals by dressing up a staff member in a novelty snow leopard costume.
Thus, the 1.5-hchlorhexidine exposure in this study attempted to simulate 3-month accumulation of 1-min daily chlorhexidine mouthrinse applications.
