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

At an internal body temperature of about 104, 105, something like that, your cell membranes actually begin to denature, like what an egg does when you put it in a frying pan.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2023

“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

In this ideal world, the food would of course, be very nutritious and free of pesticide residues, the air and water would be pure, people would not denature their food and turn it into junk.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon

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

They’re punchlines designed to be clipped and denatured of meaning.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

The title and Ma’s name are ruffled too, as if the author herself were shrink-wrapping delicious pleasure into a denatured product.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

As Ms. Selldorf removes the pergolas, she eliminates the complexity and contradiction Venturi Scott Brown layered into the ensemble, denaturing their eclectic addition.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018

Only an appreciation of nature as a collection of specific threatened habitats, rather than as an abstract thing that is “dying,” can avert the complete denaturing of the world.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015

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

The pyridines are now mostly recovered from coal-tar, but only in the shape of a mixture of all members of the series which is principally employed for denaturing alcohol.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various