initial concentration

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meaningsofinitialandconcentration

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initial
adjective[before noun]
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/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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concentration
noun
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/ˌkɒn.sənˈtreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.sənˈtreɪ.ʃən/
the ability to think carefully about something you are doing and ...
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(Definition ofinitialandconcentrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theinitialconcentrationwas 1 x 106 cells/ml.
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We also found that the shape of theinitialconcentrationprofile had no effect on the long-term pattern of desorption.
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Take, for instance, aninitialconcentrationof the reagent which is highly oscillating.
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Positive diffusion has a smoothing effect on aninitialconcentrationfield.
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Theinitialconcentrationof probe was 20 mg/ml.
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Perturbations are imposed at t = 0 by randomly varying this thickness of theinitialconcentrationprofile as a function of the vertical coordinate.
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In the case of physical modelling, theinitialconcentrationon natural sounds can be stressed even more strongly, and usually the research is focused on the sounds of acoustic instruments.
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The greater theinitialconcentrationof the parent, the greater the concentration of the radiogenic daughter isotope will be at some particular time.
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After aninitialconcentrationon romantic leads, particularly in comedy, he gradually found his metier playing rakes and villains.
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Theinitialconcentrationof seedlings also dilutes damage from pests and provided some food for the gardener or the compost in the form of thinnings.
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As theinitialconcentrationincreases further, the system settles into an ordered state in which fluctuations are again small.
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As in zoology, there was aninitialconcentrationon taxonomy until the newer systematic ideas took hold.
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After a refluxing digestion step, theinitialconcentrationof organic substances in the sample is calculated from a titrimetric or spectrophotometric determination of the oxidant still remaining in the sample.
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Biodegradation of phenol at high initial concentrations in two phase partitioning batch and fed batch bioreactors.
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This residence time is based on the inflow, outflow, volume,initialconcentrationof contaminant, the added chemical for treatment, and the rate at which the reactions take place.
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From those values the probability that a particle will enter a cell initially can be determined from knowing the initial concentrations of viral particles per photoreceptor.
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This states that after one lifetime (1/k), the ratio of final to initial concentrations is equal to about 0.37.
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For a given set of initial concentrations, the equilibrium constant can be used to determine the composition of a system at equilibrium.
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The reaction will oscillate under a fairly wide range of initial concentrations.
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