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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

“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

Moreover, extreme changes in pH can denature proteins.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

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 Guy L. Steele

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

The title and Ma’s name are ruffled too, as if the author herself were shrink-wrapping delicious pleasure into a denatured product.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 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

As Ms. Selldorf removes the pergolas, she eliminates the complexity and contradiction Venturi Scott Brown layered into the ensemble, denaturing their eclectic addition.

From New York Times Nov. 30, 2018

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

In refining our sugar a similar denaturing process 'is carried on.

From Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden




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