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
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