trace amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftraceandamount
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trace
noun
uk/treɪs/us/treɪs/
a sign that something has happened ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition oftraceandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftrace amount
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Reducing sugars, such as fructose, glucose and galactose, were present intraceamountand were not quantified.
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Copper sweetening introducestraceamountof copper into the resulting products, which tends to have detrimental effects as it leads to formation of gummy residues.
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In inorganic phosphors, these inhomogeneities in the crystal structure are created usually by addition of atraceamountof dopants, impurities called activators.
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The major source of thallium for practical purposes is thetraceamountthat is found in copper, lead, zinc, and other heavy-metal-sulfide ores.
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In human blood atraceamountof methemoglobin is normally produced spontaneously.
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Metals such as lead and copper and zinc are found in atraceamountin all sediments.
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A typical mix is 75% copper, 25% nickel, and atraceamountof manganese.
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Reducing sugars declined to trace amounts, and only small amounts of raffinose and stachyose were detected in mature dry embryos.
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Shallow electron traps are created by sulfur sensitization, introduction of a crystalline defect (edge dislocation), and incorporating atraceamountof non-silver salt as a dopant.
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Only trace amounts of bile acids escape absorption and are subsequently lost in the faeces.
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Some samples contain trace amounts of pyrite and chalcopyrite.
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To ensure that such elements were genuinely present, we started by selecting the lowest negative p/b value for each element present in trace amounts.
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The empty aluminum planchettes were examined and trace amounts of biological material were found stuck to the metal surface (data not shown).
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Although the former only produce trace amounts, the latter secrete sufficient amounts to allow quantitative analysis.
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These are called simple sea salt solutions because they only contain five major salts whereas natural seawater contains trace amounts of many other components.!
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Other maleimide components are present only in trace amounts.
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Only trace amounts of stachyose and verbascose were detected (data not shown).
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Electron microscopy analysis identified high concentrations of silicon and iron, low concentrations of aluminum and potassium, and trace amounts of chromium in the fossil body.
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The amino group of serine was readily removed by the worms and the only metabolite formed in more than trace amounts in which the amino group remained intact was alanine.
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