When two distinct elements are chemically combined, with the atoms held together by chemical bonds, the result is termed a chemical compound.

When the axon is damaged, on the other hand, this results in a reduced compound muscle action potential ( CMAP ).

When processing signals, such as audio, radio waves, light waves, seismic waves, and even images, Fourier analysis can isolate individual components of a compound waveform, concentrating them for easier detection and / or removal.

When hemoglobin combines with CO, it forms a very bright red compound called carboxyhemoglobin, which may cause the skin of CO poisoning victims to appear pink in death, instead of white or blue.

When studying inorganic compounds, one often encounters parts of the different classes of inorganic chemistry ( an organometallic compound is characterized by its coordination chemistry, and may show interesting solid state properties ).

When a metal ore is an ionic compound of that metal and a non-metal, the ore must usually be smelted — heated with a reducing agent — to extract the pure metal.

When two or more elements combined to form a compound, their masses are always in a fixed and definite ratio.

When interacting with a free radical, some antioxidants produce a different free radical compound that is less dangerous or more dangerous than the previous compound.

When the two R groups are not identical, the compound is said to be an unsymmetric or mixed disulfide.

When disease occurs because of two unrelated mutations, the patient is said to be a compound heterozygote.

When H. pylori infection is present, the most effective treatments are combinations of 2 antibiotics ( e. g. Clarithromycin, Amoxicillin, Tetracycline, Metronidazole ) and 1 proton pump inhibitor ( PPI ), sometimes together with a bismuth compound.

* When a compound bow is drawn, the limbs are pulled in toward each other, by the buss cables, unlike a longbow or recurve where the limbs flex in the direction of the bow string.

: When " secret police " is part of a longer noun compound: for example, " secret police operations " may mean " police operations which are secret ".

When it was used, the two pieces of tape to be joined were painted with a solution of extremely fine iron filings suspended in carbon tetrachloride, a toxic and carcinogenic compound.

When an apology is delayed, for instance if a friend has been wronged and the offending party does not apologize, the perception of the offense can compound over time.

When Rudolph was 18, he spent time with his mother at a Christian Identity compound in Missouri known as the Church of Israel.

When consumed, the false morel's principal active agent, gyromitrin, is hydrolyzed into the toxic compound monomethylhydrazine ( MMH ).

When the time for prayer arrived, however, he left the church and prayed outside the compound, in order to avoid having future generations of Muslims use his prayer there as a pretext for converting the church into a mosque.

When a classroom of children began using the wallpaper cleaner as a modeling compound, the product was reworked and marketed to Cincinnati schools in the mid-1950s.

When surfactants are present above the CMC ( Critical micelle concentration ), they can act as emulsifiers that will allow a compound that is normally insoluble ( in the solvent being used ) to dissolve.

When Puyi was crowned Emperor, his father as the Prince Regent lived for a short time in the compound.

When the Republic of China government moved its capital to Nanjing, the Zhongnanhai compound was opened to the public as a park.

When the family was leaving the compound, Abdurahman and Abdullah fought over seating in the car, and the fight ended with the older Khadr chasing his brother around the car with an AK-47 screaming.

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

When such a reference is found, an actual address is assigned and the availability table is changed so that the assigned index word or switch is no longer available for later assignment.

When an actual index word or a symbolic address is specified, Autocoder will equate the name IOCSIXF to it.

When an actual index word or a symbolic address is specified, Autocoder will equate IOCSIXG to it.

When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.

When the cowboy used the word `` tailin's '', he meant stragglers.

When Missouri's Clarence Cannon got the word, he turned purple.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

When the word for onion, chung, is used, it is understood that one is referring to " green onions " ( otherwise known to English-speakers as scallions or spring onions, green onions ).

When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

When word of the plot percolated through Black Hand leadership and the Serbian government, Apis was told not to proceed.

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

When a doctrine undergoes this procedure, the LDS Church treats it as the word of God, and it is used as a standard to compare other doctrines.

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").

When the word kusari is used in conjunction with an armoured item it usually means that the kusari makes up the majority of the armour defence.

* When strings contain spaces or other word dividers, the decision must be taken whether to ignore these dividers or to treat them as " letters " preceding all other letters of the alphabet.

When capitalized and without modifiers ( that is, simply the Diaspora ), the term refers specifically to the Jewish diaspora ; when uncapitalized the word diaspora may be used to refer to refugee populations of other origins or ethnicities.

When word comes that Naboth is dead, Jezebel tells Ahab to take possession of the vineyard.

When trying to recall some words, he would frequently substitute a synonym of a similar-sounding word, such as trying to say " char " but instead saying " burn " ( a synonym of " char ") and " friend " ( a synonym of " chum ").

When the word " estimator " is used without a qualifier, it usually refers to point estimation.

When someone hit a scram switch the clock stopped and the display was replaced with the word " FOO "; at TMRC the scram switches are therefore called " Foo switches ".