Estrogen Curbs Appetite In Same Way As The Hormone Leptin. FULL STORY. Estrogen regulates the brain's energy metabolism in the same way as the hormone leptin, leading the way to a viable approach to tackling obesity in people resistant to leptin, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the December 31 online issue of Nature Medicine.
1. smokeless powder-an explosive (trade name Ballistite) that burns with relatively little smoke; contains pyrocellulose and is used as a propellant. Ballistite. explosive-a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck.
Modern smokeless powder has to also have a couple of properties that make it useful over long periods of time: Note here that I am making a distinction between smokeless powder which is the propellant, and the device that ignites the propellant, the primer.