Whether you are discussing religion, nationality, race or culture, people have supposed that an identity that survives through time and space must be propelled by some potent common essence.
You end up with a concentrated, potent elixir that distills the essence of the original ingredient into just a few drops.
THE often contentious debate about whether it is one's genes or one's environment that is the more potent shaper of one's human essence was, until recently, unclouded by many facts.
Their no-nonsense approach - if a track isn't working in the studio within two hours, bin it - has seen them emerge with 10 neat songs that distil the essence of classic pop into short, potent bursts.
Essence is essentially a diluted or less potent player, but occasionally not.
Wish fulfillment gone awry is the essence of many a comedy, and there is no wish as potent and deep-seated as the yearning for an imaginary friend.
Sandalwood essence, for example, is a terpene, and the demand for its potent smell means the tree it comes from is becoming rare.
Alkaline protease hydrolysates from sardine muscle (IC50 = 48.7 mg/mL), chicken essence (IC50 = 471.4 mg/mL) or yogurt (IC50 = 519.8 mg/mL) showed potent α-glucosidase inhibitory activity (Matsui et al. 1996).
Further mining identified 15 (VU0405623), possessing a substituted phthalimide moiety with potent, dual PAM activity at both mGlu4 (EC50 = 61 nM) and mGlu1 (EC50 = 75 nM), in essence a double "molecular switch", and a lead compound from which to develop a new, selective mGlu1 PAM chemotype, distinct from Roche's 5, if mGlu4 PAM activity could be eliminated.
Most potent are the monosyllabic, bija ("seed") mantras, which constitute the main element of longer formulas and embody the essence of divine power as the eternal, indestructible prototypes from which anything phenomenal derives its existence.
