dissociate
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By restructuring the catalyst surface and changing how reactants adsorb, dissociate, and move through the reaction pathway, the team achieved a space-time yield of 1.2 g·gcat-1·h-1 at 300 ℃ and 3 MPa.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
"Some may look at this incident as being somewhat playful, but it's hard to dissociate what could very easily be construed as animosity toward the police," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Mazin: If you make me dissociate, I’m watching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
She has no trouble watching the finished product though — she can even dissociate and just watch it as a film.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Whenever she was really scared or freaking out, the same thing always happened: she began to dissociate, reality loosening around her like a hammock deconstructing itself, spilling her out into sands of nothingness.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
The H+ dissociates from hemoglobin and combines with bicarbonate to form carbonic acid with the help of carbonic anhydrase, which further catalyzes the reaction to convert carbonic acid back into carbon dioxide and water.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
When dissolved in water, NaOH dissociates to yield Na+ and OH− ions.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
When heated, iodine vapor dissociates according to this equation:
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
You can now define a salt as a substance that, when dissolved in water, dissociates into ions other than H+ or OH–.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Every limitation of papal credit and authority which effectually dissociates it from that reproach, which breaks off its solidarity with assassins and washes away the guilt of blood, will solve most other problems.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
When people are more dissociated, “they may describe feeling numb, being on ‘autopilot,’ ” Brand says.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Suede quickly dissociated from Britpop when it curdled into something the band couldn’t recognize; something that, to the group, resembled a kind of jingoism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
In previous interviews, the musician has spoken of how she dissociated from Lady Gaga.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
In his scheme, the qubits would consist not of atoms, but those special anyon pairs, which can capture quantum information in their dissociated electrons.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
State and local affiliates dissociated from the National and formed new groups.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
"If you can trick gold into dissociating oxygen, it can actually become a very effective catalyst for certain reactions," Montemore said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
There was crying, complaining, dissociating and even laughing on those couches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
"She's created popularity by dissociating herself from the party's stagnant image," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Elizabeth tried to block out what he was saying by dissociating and praying inside her head.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2022
At its annual convention in Washington, DC, a group of women offered a resolution officially dissociating the group from Stanton and The Woman's Bible.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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