denature

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

The acidity also kills much of the bacteria you ingest with food and helps to denature proteins, making them more available for enzymatic digestion.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The substances ordinarily used to denature alcohol are wood alcohol and pyridine, the latter compound having a very offensive odor.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

However, when further testing was conducted — virus isolation — they were able to show it was inactivated virus that had been denatured by heat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

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

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

Denaturation is often reversible because the primary structure of the polypeptide is conserved in the process if the denaturing agent is removed, allowing the protein to resume its function.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

This denaturing of celebrity — the discovery of something long suppressed behind varnish — has been a hallmark of the last few weeks.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2020

This emotional complacency—a kind of saccharine self-satisfaction at his own sensitivity—is all the more disheartening for its denaturing of the movie’s evident substance, for the banalization of its meditative, nearly collage-like sense of memory.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2017

He endured the most virulent personal abuse that has ever been poured out on American public men, preferring that to using the power which his position gave him, and denaturing the President into a tyrant.

From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer