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
The baking not only anneals the wire, but reduces the shellac to a hard and highly insulating mass.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
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 Webster, Noah
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
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
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
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
Barron’s previously reported that the deal appeared to be a way for D-Wave to deepen its exposure to gate-based quantum computing, an architecture with broader applications than D-Wave’s signature annealing quantum systems.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
While the technology is still in development, gate-based systems have proven capable of tackling a broader range of scientific and cryptographic problems than annealing computers, which are limited to optimization tasks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
On the bench beside the apprentice lay a coil of wire, finished and ready for its last annealing.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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