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monolayer - definition and meaning
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A film or layer of a compound one molecule thick.
noun A layer of cells one cell thick, grown in a culture.
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noun chemistry A layer of material that is one molecule thick
noun biology A layer of tissue that is one cell thick
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Long-term monolayer culture protocol of human stem cells using human recombinant laminin-511
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Long-term monolayer culture protocol of human stem cells using human recombinant laminin-511
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So a layer of 1 nm, not 1 m – more like it. a molecular monolayer , as one would expect on a cold vacuum chamber.
Water Ice Found on Moon's North Pole | Universe Today 2010
My guess is that it is still a monolayer , but spread out as monolayers do on the physical micro-surface area, which in the case of regolith, is much larger than the geometrical area.
Water Ice Found on Moon's North Pole | Universe Today 2010
Imaging neurons and glia in culture has traditionally been preferred over more intact preparations because of the greater transparency of monolayer cultures.
NIH Public Access - Seeing Circuits Assemble William Harryman 2009
Eli, at a pressure of 10-6 torr, you get a new monolayer in about a second.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
Not ridiculous US amounts of ice ice with a splash of beverage but just a monolayer on the top.
Archive 2007-06-01 C N Heidelberg 2007
Pap Controversy: Here in the United States, the standard of care when screening for cervical cancer is to use a “monolayer ” method.
Archive 2003-04-01 2003
That means that far fewer cells were placed in suspension for the monolayer method than were placed on the slides for conventional evaluation.
Archive 2003-04-01 2003
That means that far fewer cells were placed in suspension for the monolayer method than were placed on the slides for conventional evaluation.
Medpundit 2003
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