anneal
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The foreign DNA and vector are allowed to anneal.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The tone of the letter seems, to this reader, overly filled with shame, but it works to anneal the injury.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
But in the alkaline waters of these springs, the carbonate in the water will anneal to the shell of a snail, causing snail shells to grow increasingly heavy and unwieldy.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2017
Pronk, S. & Frenkel, D. Can stacking faults in hard-sphere crystals anneal out spontaneously?
From Nature ● Nov. 7, 2017
Perhaps Rekh would now let him make leaves every day, perhaps allow him to anneal wire, spread solder just so on the boxes, and learn and become skillful.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The process of PCR anneals DNA molecules to complementary DNA strands, which maintains the same amount of DNA.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The baking not only anneals the wire, but reduces the shellac to a hard and highly insulating mass.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
They were also annealed at different temperatures and treated with different organic salt additives.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
Gonzalez-Torres and Laycock had seen and loved an earlier work by Horn — a thin, crumpled sheet of annealed gold.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
The essence of the London story is retained, with stouthearted Buck being annealed by adversity, overcoming brutality, confusion and loneliness and then responding to the kindness of Thornton to become the leader of the pack.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2020
Next, the forward and reverse oligonucleotides were annealed and cloned into the pLKO.1 lentiviral vector, which was predigested with EcoRI and AgeI.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
I would have made a better choice than Travis, now that I had been annealed in the furnace of the Scientific Method.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
After reaching the desired orientation, the team used an annealing process designed specifically for the material.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The company has pioneered annealing quantum, an architecture that’s tailored to optimization problems, but recently moved into more broadly applicable gate-model systems to capture a wider share of the market.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
D-Wave, for one, has built its reputation as a leader in annealing quantum, which is best suited for optimization tasks and less broadly applicable than gate-based quantum.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Veeco sells technologies for ion-beam deposition and laser annealing, which are essential in manufacturing semiconductors and packaging advanced chips.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 28, 2026
Fetching water, sweeping, helping in the kitchen, tending the annealing furnace in the shop were the unskilled work the boys did.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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The Golden Goblet
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