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

When they are exposed to extreme heat, acids, bases, and certain other substances, proteins will denature.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

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 Solomon, Steve

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

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

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

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

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

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 Thayer, William Roscoe