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preparative

[pri-par-uh-tiv, -pair-] / prɪˈpær ə tɪv, -ˈpɛər- /




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The catch-22 is that while stem cell transplants can prevent this failure, the usual preparative chemotherapy or radiation can cause severe complications or even cancer.

From Science Daily Nov. 7, 2025

However, preparative mass spectrometry could soon open up completely new possibilities for these applications, for example, in the production of microchips, solar cells or biologically active coatings.

From Science Daily Nov. 3, 2023

These preparative mass spectrometers can be used to produce chemical compounds in a new way.

From Science Daily Nov. 3, 2023

Another preparative method is the electrochemical oxidation of a hot solution of a metal halide to form the appropriate metal chlorates.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

I believed that an attempt to range and methodize some of our most leading passions would be a good preparative to such an inquiry as we are going to make in the ensuing discourse.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke




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