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anneal

[uh-neel] / əˈnil /


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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 used MAPS, or microporous annealed particle scaffolds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

A child of wartime Italy annealed by harsh experience — he starved and was temporarily blinded in boyhood by unexploded ordnance — Mr. Armani possesses plenty of backbone.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2021

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

Riddick hoped that the conflict would produce an annealed group capable of directing the charrette once it got started.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

After reaching the desired orientation, the team used an annealing process designed specifically for the material.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

D-Wave has cornered the market for annealing quantum systems, which are tailored to optimization problems.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 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

Then there’s the matter of D-Wave’s proprietary annealing technology and its limited applications.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Johnny’s eyes flew about the shop, taking in the fine anvils, the hood upon the annealing furnace, the neat nests of crucibles.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes


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