Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A lustrous white crystalline compound, CH4N2S, the sulfur analog of urea, used as a developer in photography and photocopying and in various organic syntheses.

Etymologies

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From New Latin, 1890–95, thio- + urea.

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Examples

  • THIOUREA LEACHING chemical solution as complex, adsorption, stripping leaching tanks, adsorbers thiourea, pH-reagents, Al or Fe powder SO2

    Chapter 20 1993

  • The plant contains isothiocyanates and thiourea; differences in composition correspond with the cultivated form and wild form and a division into two subspecies, Tropaeolum tuberosum ssp. tuberosum and T. tuberosum ssp. silvestre, has been proposed.

    Chapter 7 1987

  • Effects of chlorethanol and thiourea on the germination and relative yield of the yam (Dioscorea alata L.).

    Chapter 37 1987

  • The recovered membrane pellets were resuspended further in 2 ml buffer (7 M urea, 2 M thiourea, 1% SDS and 10% glycerol) for 2 hr and were concentrated/dialyzed against buffer containing 50 mM Tris pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl and 10% glycerol using 10 KDa Amicon centrifugal filters (Millipore).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gunjan Arora et al. 2010

  • Last year, Wego bought Degussa's thiourea dioxide business and is now making that product in China for international distribution.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • (0.01 M Tris, 0.25 M sucrose, pH7. 2), and then suspended in lysis buffer (8 M urea, 2 M thiourea, 4% CHAPS, 1% DTT, 0. 8% ampholine pH3-10) followed by sonication for 5 min using a Ultraschallprozessor UP200S (Hielscher).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010

  • Several tests have been conducted in the Deer Trail metallurgical facility to determine the economics of the use of thiourea and thiosulfate lixiatives, both of which can be used as leaching agents for gold leaching and silver.

    StreetInsider.com News Articles 2009

  • Several tests have been conducted in the Deer Trail metallurgical facility to determine the economics of the use of thiourea and thiosulfate lixiatives, both of which can be used as leaching agents for gold leaching and silver.

    unknown title 2009

  • Repairing of low-temperature injury in rice seedlings by thiourea, cystine and potassium thiocyanate

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Action chemosterilants - thiourea hempa haemolymph protein house-fly

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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