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

Excess free energy would result in an increase of heat in the cell, which would denature enzymes and other proteins, and thus destroy the cell.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

Term for `police' nanobots intended to prevent gray goo, denature hazardous waste, destroy pollution, put ozone back into the stratosphere, prevent halitosis, and promote truth, justice, and the American way, etc.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele

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

Hundreds of pounds of denatured iron that alchemists would have fought over The mayor nodded eagerly and singsonged, “Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

Denaturation is often reversible because the primary structure is preserved if the denaturing agent is removed, allowing the protein to resume its function.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

In refining our sugar a similar denaturing process 'is carried on.

From Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden