Sentence examples for k2 from inspiring English sources
proper noun
The world's second highest mountain, located in the Ladakh Himalayas.
There was a nod to civilian life in Pakistan with a series of floats, including one bearing a pair of roaring electronic dinosaurs and others for each of country's different regions – the mountainous north was represented by men dressed as mountaineers pretending to scale a model of K2.
If k2 is much larger than k3, however, the velocity-determining process is the decomposition of Z, the rate of formation of the product being represented by the expression k3[Z], in which [Z] is the concentration of the intermediate.
A second form of vitamin K known as menaquinone (vitamin K2) is synthesized by bacteria, including bacteria in the intestines of mammals.
Excessive doses of the natural vitamins K1 and K2 have no obvious effects except that resistance may develop to therapy with anticoagulant drugs; however, vitamin K3 is toxic to newborn infants if given in large doses.
In 1978 he had again climbed Nanga Parbat, reaching the summit alone by a new route, and in 1979 he had led a team of six to the top of K2 (28,251 feet [8,611 metres]), the world's second highest mountain.
As the formula implies, the effect of species 2 on species 1 (α1,2) in turn is determined by the population size and carrying capacity of species 2 (N2 and K2).
For instance, species 2 will drive species 1 to local extinction if the term α1,2N2/K2 exceeds the term r1N1(1 − N1/K1)—though the term α1,2N2/K2 will exert a decreasing influence over the growth rate of species 1 as α1,2N2/K2 diminishes.
Another early example of the preparation of a coordination compound is the use in 1760 of a sparingly soluble compound, potassium hexachloroplatinate(2−), K2[PtCl6], to refine the element platinum.
In the first equation, the change in population size of species 1 over a specific period of time (dN1/dt) is determined by its own population dynamics in the absence of species 2 (r1N1[1 – N1/K1]) as well as by its interaction with species 2 (α1,2N2/K2).
The important vanadium minerals are patronite (VS4), carnotite [K2 UO2 2 VO4 2], and vanadinite, [Pb5 VO4 3Cl].
The experimental beam contained only \ \ce{K2^0}\) mesons.
