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Etymology 1 n. (context organic compound English) THAM Etymology 2

n. (plural of tri English)

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Tris or Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane or THAM is an organic compound with the formula (HOCH)CNH. Tris is extensively used in biochemistry and molecular biology. In biochemistry, Tris is widely used as a component of buffer solutions, such as in TAE and TBE buffer, especially for solutions of nucleic acids. It contains a primary amine and thus undergoes the reactions associated with typical amines, e.g. condensations with aldehydes.

Tris (disambiguation)

Tris may refer to:

  • Tris tris(hydroxymethyl) aminomethane, a biochemical buffer
  • Tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate, a flame retardant
  • Tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate, a flame retardant
  • TRIS online, U.S. Dept. of Transportation Research Information Services online
  • Tris Speaker, a baseball player

Usage examples of "tris".

She, Sandry, Tris, and Briar had agreed not to show it until they were eighteen unless they had to prove they were accredited mages.

As long as I have it, Briar and Tris and even you will have a home nobody can make us leave.

In the two years of study she had put into it, Tris had only improved the clarity and duration of the images slightly, averaging one or two images per trial.

Over the long weeks of her voyage north, constant practice and fewer images to sort through had left Tris open.

Now Tris walked behind the luggage cart, using it as a wind and image barrier, to keep her unhappy stomach from rebelling anymore.

A short, plump redhead, Tris wore a variety of braids coiled in a heavy silk net pinned at the back of her head.

Daja walked in as Tris laid out plates of olives and warm, fresh bread.

He had long known that the younger Tris had admired him, as a young girl would admire a polished older man who talked of books with her.

Apparently, thought Vedris, Tris had not shared her plans with her housemates.

Since Tris had gone to do the marketing and Daja was at Winding Circle, the maid fetched Briar.

Sandry, and Daja soon found something they could agree on in that first week: Tris had grown very odd.

Briar did, it was almost as if by trying to be quiet and disturb no one, Tris disturbed everyone.

Daja was about to enter the water when she saw that Tris had halted her mare in midstream.

They, Sandry, and Briar fled across the river with Tris behind them, just in back of the last wagons.

He winked and rode back to Tris, getting her attention by poking her in the arm.