DALTON

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• DALTON (noun)
  The noun DALTON has 1 sense:

1. English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)

  Familiarity information: DALTON used as a noun is very rare.

• DALTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dalton; John Dalton

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

Masses and the root mean square radius or a measure of geometric size can be determined using this technique on a mega Dalton scale.

(Multi-Angle Laser Light Scattering, NCI Thesaurus)

A human immunoglobulin M class monoclonal antibody that recognizes a 30- to 45-kilo dalton intracellular antigen expressed in colorectal cancer cells and is being developed for applications in Antibody-Targeted Immunotherapy of cancer.

(Monoclonal Antibody 16.88, NCI Thesaurus)

A mass unit equal to one thousand daltons.

(Kilodalton, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A unit of atomic mass equal to one thousand daltons.

(Kilodalton, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived, after depolymerisation and fractionation, from medical-grade porcine unfractionated heparin (UFH), bemiparin has an average molecular weight of 3,600 daltons and has a higher anti-factor Xa/anti-factor IIa ratio (8:1) than first-generation LMWHs.

(Bemiparin Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Mature EGF is a single-chain polypeptide consisting of 53 amino acids and having a molecular mass of about 6,000 daltons.

(Epidermal growth factor, NCI Thesaurus)

Substances comprised of fragmented heparin molecules derived from unfractionated heparin that bind to antithrombin III with a molecular weight ranging from 1000 to 10,000 daltons, which causes changes in property from unfractionated heparin, including decreased protein binding, enhanced bioavailability, decreased platelet interaction, and decreased binding to thrombin.

(Low Molecular Weight Heparin, NCI Thesaurus)