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Meanings of lox in English

Portuguese
oxigénio líquido

A bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants.

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oxigénio líquido
Usage of lox in English
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BITES: The crew enjoyed a breakfast of pastries, fruit, bagels and lox.
Ebony
2
Now he was an expert, spreading lox or cream cheese with abandon.
Summer of Night
3
Both vectors also had a pair of loxP sites flanking the ITRs.
Pubmed
4
Nokomis would now be destoning the lox and bagels for their breakfast.
Dayworld
5
There were bagels, cream cheese, thin-sliced tomato and onion-andreal nova lox!
Dexter’s Final Cut
6
But Edelstein didn't like lox, either, not even Nova Scotia.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
7
Abe Sapien popped a piece of lox into his mouth and started to chew.
The god machine
8
I'm not asking for lox and bagels, but the press room just doesn't offer food.
Wired
9
In this system, genes modified by loxP sites are altered first upon expression of Cre.
Pubmed
10
He peered down the flank of the Mustard, and lox vapour swirled across his vision.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
11
Can I ever go in & buy lox again?
Further adventures
12
Then he remembered: Manowitz, by some strange quirk of the taste buds, could not abide lox.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
13
The guy's shopping list maybe -lox, bagels, cream cheese, chicken livers, who the fuck knew?
City of lies
14
And Fox-lox said: "Come along with me, and I will show you the way."
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories / The Young Folks Treasu...
15
Cloning and sequencing of lox gene revealed 1230 bp CDS which is mostly conserved in C-terminal region.
Pubmed
16
I ate bagels for breakfast and lox for brunch, pizza for lunch and Chinese food for dinner.
Ebony
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