intercalate
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“The messenger RNA from the vaccine does not form a triple helix, and it certainly doesn’t intercalate with the DNA to form a triple helix in any way,” Kuritzkes said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
No, my dear cousin, it was in bad taste to say the least of it, and it was equally impolitic to intercalate such a demonstration into the usual and appropriate exercises of the week.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese) Morse
The viewer can even intercalate any person in the cast, even himself or herself, and deliver a character's lines.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
As often as he meets with new groups, he must ascertain by superposition their age relatively to those first examined, and thus learn how to intercalate them in a tabular arrangement of the whole.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The era began on the 11th of July 552, and their year is vague, that is to say, it does not intercalate a day in February every fourth year, like the Julian calendar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
Unfortunately, it's difficult to identify in advance which of the many possible intercalated materials are stable, which necessitates a lot of trial-and-error lab work in product development.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
"We are the first to develop accurate predictive tools for host-guest intercalation energies, and the stability of intercalated compounds," explains Naoto Kawaguchi, lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
Therefore, much lab work has been needed to devise new intercalated materials for imparting next-generation device functionalities.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
Cardiac muscle tissue also has intercalated discs, specialized regions running along the plasma membrane that join adjacent cardiac muscle cells and assist in passing an electrical impulse from cell to cell.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Above the limestone are found layers of dark grey-blue shales with intercalated beds of grit, mudstone and limestone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
When they link up, they form intercalating discs that allow the cells to communicate with each other and begin contracting in synchrony.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
It has always sought to bring the divine into human life by intercalating acts of God among facts of nature.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
Hence it may be seen that by intercalating a month every three years the new moons are restored, very nearly, to the place they occupied three years before.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
Thus, after intercalating in year one, they intercalated again in year four, instead of in year five.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart
The Vicar, dishevelled and desperate, intercalating spasmodic remorse and apprehension with broken explanations of the Theory of Etiquette.
From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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