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gram

/gram/US // græm //UK // (ɡræm) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g

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Examples

  • Furthermore, a person with norovirus has about 70 billion viral particles per gram of stool.

  • The European formula for Fireball has even less: under one gram per kilogram of propylene glycol.

  • Wax can cost a hundred dollars a gram, while buds are as cheap as $20 these days.

  • Food business groups argue that a gram of sugar, natural or added, is a gram of sugar—so why distinguish it?

  • He was, he said, amazed that “a fraction of a gram of sugar had rendered [him] unconscious.”

  • Recognition of the pneumococcus depends upon its morphology, the fact that it is Gram-staining, and the presence of a capsule.

  • The great majority belong to the colon bacillus group, and are negative to Gram's method of staining.

  • A Gram-positive stool due to cocci is suggestive of intestinal ulceration.

  • Gram's method (p. 40) is a very useful aid in distinguishing certain bacteria.

  • This is a minute, slender rod, which lies within and between the pus-corpuscles (Fig. 125), and is negative to Gram's stain.