Sentence examples for slight fractionation from inspiring English sources

Slight fractionation was observed during the extraction.

Because certain natural processes produce a slight fractionation between water molecules containing different isotopes, scientists can use isotopic compositions to trace processes such as global atmospheric circulation.

Ratios of stable carbon isotopes (12C/13C, hereafter δ13C) vary between different basal resources, and have only slight fractionation between trophic levels [29].

Complicated biochemical processes may also induce a slight isotopic fractionation, for example in photosynthesis, during the synthesis of amino acids or lipids, and processes in bacteria [10 16].

Therefore, there is a slight but measurable fractionation between the larch tree and the nutrient reservoir (mineral or peat soil).

Significant differences in slopes of regression lines in the single-source experiments provide some evidence of slight changes in fractionation associated with shifts in environmental temperature or humidity.

In contrast, there is little isotopic fractionation of nitrogen in ammonium during sorption, ε = 1, with a slight preference for sorption of ammonium containing the heavier isotope, leaving similar or slightly lighter nitrogen in the remaining ammonium (Delwiche and Steyn 1970; Karamanos and Rennie 1978).

Weathering indices and iron fractionation data indicate slight differences in soil development between the paleosols on terminal moraines and associated terraces of two different ages in the central part of the region, suggesting that the two depositional phases were separated by an interstadial rather than an interglacial.

Nuclei fractionation was performed as described previously with slight modifications.

The method was adapted from a protocol that has already been developed for molecular size fractionation of HA (Asakawa et al. 2011), with slight modification.

Nuclear fractionation studies were conducted as previously described [28] with slight modifications.