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
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
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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.
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
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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
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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