denature
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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
“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
When they are exposed to extreme heat, acids, bases, and certain other substances, proteins will denature.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The substances ordinarily used to denature alcohol are wood alcohol and pyridine, the latter compound having a very offensive odor.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
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
They’re punchlines designed to be clipped and denatured of meaning.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Hundreds of pounds of denatured iron that alchemists would have fought over The mayor nodded eagerly and singsonged, “Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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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
It’s as if he is deliberately denaturing himself to appeal to as many people as possible; going not with his gut, but with his market research.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
This emotional complacency—a kind of saccharine self-satisfaction at his own sensitivity—is all the more disheartening for its denaturing of the movie’s evident substance, for the banalization of its meditative, nearly collage-like sense of memory.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2017
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
In refining our sugar a similar denaturing process 'is carried on.
From Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden