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dissociate

[dih-soh-shee-eyt, -see-] / dɪˈsoʊ ʃiˌeɪt, -si- /


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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

Although the actor felt tethered to the character while on set, she could easily dissociate at the end of the day.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2026

"You have to dissociate yourself. More or less, you are robotic. This is the way you have to behave, but inside, you are deeply injured. You are seeing the nation injured."

From BBC Sep. 19, 2024

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

She said that she would understand if Anthony wanted to dissociate herself from her opinions, that she was “ready to stand alone.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

When a nonsense codon is encountered, a release factor binds and dissociates the components and frees the new protein.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

When heated, iodine vapor dissociates according to this equation:

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

Because only 1.1% of the dissociates into Ag+ and NH3, the assumption that x is small is justified.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

An electrolyte is a compound that dissociates into ions when dissolved in water.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

It dissociates the desired factors and does not relate them.

From Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn by

She now believes she dissociated during the encounter and there was a "massive power imbalance", she said.

From BBC Jun. 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

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

Locked away for life, he’s picked up his old coping mechanism, dissociating by escaping into books, and he’s seething inside.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2025

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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