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Taglichtfilm
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Daylight film
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Photographic color film to be used in
daylight
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Taumeltrockner
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Tumbler drier
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TCC
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TCA
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Tricarboxylic acid cycle
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Teilentkeimung
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Pasteurization
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Generally used to mean killing of harmful
bacteria, but not necessarily all bacteria, by heating a liquid
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Tellerseparator
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Separator
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A centrifugal separator with numerous
internal (conical) plates to improve separation
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Thermophil
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Thermophile
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Microorganisms growing at high
temperature (> 40°C)
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thermophil
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adj
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Thermophilic
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Grow at > 40 °C
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Tiefenfilter
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Depth filter
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A filter in which the depth is enough
that all particles (above a limiting size) in the fluid being filtered will
strike an element of the filter before they can pass through.
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Tiefenschärfe
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Depth of field
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In an imaging system (e. g., microscope),
the distance through the object being examined which is in sharp focus. Often
incorrectly called ‘depth of focus’, which properly relates to the distance
through the image which is in sharp focus.
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Titer
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n
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Titer
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This term indicates, generally, a
concentration; but the specific meaning depends on the process. Titer is not
usually determined by titration.
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Toluidinblau
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Toluidine blue
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Tonfilter
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m
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Ceramic filter
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Torf
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Peat
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TPP
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TPP
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Thiamin diphosphate (pyrophosphate)
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Trägernetz
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Grid
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Sample holder for transmission electron
microscopy
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Tränenflüssigkeit
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Tears
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Transduction
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Transduction
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Transfer of bacterial genes from a donor
to an acceptor by bacteriophage
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Transformation
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Transformation
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Transfer of bacterial genes from a donor
to an acceptor by DNA in solution in the culture.
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Treibstrahl
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Water jet
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Medium jet (usually recirculating fermentation
medium)
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Tricarbonsäure-Cyclus
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Tricarboxylic acid cycle
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‘Krebs cycle’ which oxidizes acetyl
fragments to carbon dioxide and water
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Trockenmasse
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Dry weight
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‘Mass’ is technically more correct than
‘weight’, but is rarely used in this context in US English
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Trockenofen
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m
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Drying oven
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Trockenschale
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f
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Drying tray
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Drying pan
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Trockensystem
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Dry system
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In microscopy, not an immersion system.
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Trombe
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f; -; -n
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Vortex
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Also a waterspout, whirlwind, etc.
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Trommelzentrifuge
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f
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Basket centrifuge
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Tropfpipette
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f
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Dropper
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Dropping pipet; usually not graduated;
medicine dropper
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Trophophase
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Trophophase
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Log phase of growth
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Trübung
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Turbidity
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Cloudiness of a cell suspension; can be
measured optically as an indication of the cell count.
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Turbidostat
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Turbidostat
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Continuous fermentor in which the
turbidity of the medium (cell concentration) is held constant by varying the
rate of medium input.
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Turbinenrührer
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Turbine
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Has curved paddles attached on one side
of the disc; the paddles do not extend beyond the disc
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Turbinenrührer
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Turbine stirrer
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Like a disc stirrer, but with curved
blades
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Tween
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Tween
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Tradename (Atlas Chemical Industries) for
polyoxyethylene derivatives of fatty acid partial esters of sorbitol
anhydrides; used as emulsifiers and surfactants.
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Tyndallisation
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Tyndallization
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Fractional sterilization
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Typhus
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Typhus
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Pathogen: Rickettsia prowazekii, carried by lice.
Note:
There is much confusion in German literature between typhus and typhoid fever!!
Accurate translation may require knowledge of the situation, symptoms
and pathogen! Ca. 7 days incubation; headache, chill, fever. On 5th
day of fever, rash appears; various severe features; up to 60% fatalities
if untreated (e. g., tetracyclines).
Note:
There are also murine typhus (R. typhi) and scrub typhus (R. tsutsugamushi).
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