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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 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

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

Many of the more compelling editorial voices were annealed by their time in the alternative weekly world.

From New York Times Aug. 20, 2012

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

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

The company was exploring gate-based models early on, but abandoned those efforts in favor of differentiating itself through its focus on annealing, which has since become its bread and butter.

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

Another coil of wire lay ready for annealing.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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