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How to use selenium in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Selenium means a nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor. Example: “The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.”

Examples of selenium by meaning

nounA nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as...

  • Pluck almost any cell from your body and it will have a million or more selenium atoms in it.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 4

More sentences with selenium

  • The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.From the entry inoculate
  • No selenium, no photo-cell banks. No photobanks – well, death by slow broiling is one of the more unpleasant ways of being done in.From the entry photobank
  • Selenocarbonyl compounds are the selenium analogs of carbonyl compounds having a carbon-selenium double bond.2007, D. M. P. Mingos, Robert H. Crabtree, Paul Knochel, Comprehensive organometallic chemistry III: Applications I. From the entry selenocarbonyl
  • The poisonvetches are obligate selenophiles and the selenium content accounts for their chief toxic effects.1998 March 23, Robert Alan Lewis, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology, CRC-Press, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry selenophile
  • In some cases, soil concentrations are such that selenophilic plants can accumulate selenium to toxic concentrations.1998 March 23, Robert Alan Lewis, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology, CRC-Press, →ISBN, page 931. From the entry selenophilic
  • By protecting DNA, selenium reduces the missynthesizing of proteins.2003, Sujoy Deyasi, Uniphase, page 88. From the entry missynthesize
  • Thalasso is based on the curative effects of seawater and its derivatives: mud, sand, algae, iodine, selenium, other elements.1999, Leaders, volume 22, page 225. From the entry thalasso
  • They were accused of containing cadmium and selenium, two minerals which might be poisonoous or deleterious to lipstickers.1940 May 15, “America's Makeup”, in Consumers' Guide, volume 6, number 16, page 2. From the entry lipsticker
  • Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt.1994, John M. C. Gutteridge, Barry Halliwell, “Antioxidant vitamins and nutrients”, in Antioxidants in Nutrition, Health, and Disease…. From the entry Keshan disease
  • Health disorders that are treated with adequate selenium include white muscle muscle disease, retained placenta in cattle, reproductive failure, unthriftness and dead or weak offspring.1981, Spooner Sheep Day. From the entry unthriftness

Meaning of selenium

  1. noun A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.
  2. noun An atom of this element.

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Questions about selenium in a sentence

How do you use selenium in a sentence?
Selenium is used as a noun. For example: “The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.”
What is a short sentence with selenium?
“By protecting DNA, selenium reduces the missynthesizing of proteins.”
What does selenium mean?
Selenium means a nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.

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