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denature

[dee-ney-cher] / diˈneɪ tʃər /






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This property depends heavily on both the amount of protein in the beer and how these proteins denature.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

It is thought that acids in the stomach denature the virus, said Michael Imperiale, a microbiologist and immunologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2024

At an internal body temperature of about 104, 105, something like that, your cell membranes actually begin to denature, like what an egg does when you put it in a frying pan.

From Slate Jul. 12, 2023

“We need to take a step back and decide: Are we willing to denature nature for our toys and our various games we play with her?”

From Seattle Times Oct. 31, 2022

Term for `police' nanobots intended to prevent gray goo, denature hazardous waste, destroy pollution, put ozone back into the stratosphere, prevent halitosis, and promote truth, justice, and the American way, etc.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

However, when further testing was conducted — virus isolation — they were able to show it was inactivated virus that had been denatured by heat.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 27, 2024

Now that most of the paint is gone, spray the chair with denatured alcohol and scrub with more steel wool to clean off any residue.

From Seattle Times Jun. 3, 2024

To manufacture the sponge, Mohammad Peydayesh, a senior scientist in Mezzenga's Group, and his colleagues denatured whey proteins under acidic conditions and high temperatures, so that they aggregated into protein nanofibrils in a gel.

From Science Daily Feb. 29, 2024

Along the way, he encounters other animals but, more consequently, kind and cruel people whose treatment of him reflects the denatured world that we have made.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2022

But here, in a library and in his civvies, he wasn’t so frightening, was some-how ... denatured.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Antonoff, an occasional tabloid presence thanks to his relationships with actresses Lena Dunham and Margaret Qualley, isn’t alone in his flair for slightly denaturing sounds familiar to any music fan.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2022

In denaturing the stage action from the narrative, though, the play makes it possible to admire Berry’s certified-organic artistry and Morrison’s haunting accompaniment, without feeling anything like unease.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2020

Only an appreciation of nature as a collection of specific threatened habitats, rather than as an abstract thing that is “dying,” can avert the complete denaturing of the world.

From The New Yorker Mar. 30, 2015

Denaturation is often reversible because the primary structure is preserved if the denaturing agent is removed, allowing the protein to resume its function.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

He endured the most virulent personal abuse that has ever been poured out on American public men, preferring that to using the power which his position gave him, and denaturing the President into a tyrant.

From George Washington by Thayer, William Roscoe




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