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
I still do it when she’s napping though, I just sit on my phone and fully dissociate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
You have to have to dissociate yourself from the character, but you also have to dissociate yourself from your work.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2024
A miracle would be useful: if I could stage a convincing rebirth, I could dissociate from everything I’d said and done in the last year.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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The oxygen dissociates from the Hb molecule, shifting the oxygen dissociation curve to the right.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
When this happens, a release factor dissociates the components and frees the new polypeptide.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
ATP dissociates and the energy released by breaking of a phosphate bond within ATP is used for phosphorylation of another molecule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The H+ ion dissociates from the hemoglobin and binds to the bicarbonate ion.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
She now believes she dissociated during the encounter and there was a "massive power imbalance", she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
"Our findings are consistent with a growing scientific perspective suggesting that psychedelic effects and serotonergic activity may be dissociated," says Andrea Mattarei, a corresponding author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
The police dissociated itself from the information and said an investigation was under way to identify those responsible.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
“Casey feels dissociated from everyone,” Cobb tells me on Zoom, calling her character a “rejectable reject,” someone who sinks into a digital abyss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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"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
Some people respond by mentally "dissociating," or disconnecting from their physical selves.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2021
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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