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dissociate

[dih-soh-shee-ayt, -see-] / dɪˈsoʊ ʃiˌeɪt, -si- /


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By restructuring the catalyst surface and changing how reactants adsorb, dissociate, and move through the reaction pathway, the team achieved a space-time yield of 1.2 g·gcat-1·h-1 at 300 ℃ and 3 MPa.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

Mazin: If you make me dissociate, I’m watching.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025

"You have to dissociate yourself. More or less, you are robotic. This is the way you have to behave, but inside, you are deeply injured. You are seeing the nation injured."

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024

She has no trouble watching the finished product though — she can even dissociate and just watch it as a film.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

Part of her wanted to just leave, just run away inside her head, dissociate deeper than anyone could find, but Jam knew she had to stay.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

The H+ ion dissociates from the hemoglobin and binds to the bicarbonate ion.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

When a nonsense codon is encountered, a release factor binds and dissociates the components and frees the new protein.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Because only 1.1% of the dissociates into Ag+ and NH3, the assumption that x is small is justified.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

When a stop codon is encountered, a release factor binds and dissociates the components and frees the new protein.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

Thus one of the Meta molecules of iron, containing seven atoms, is identical in appearance with a Hyper heptad, but the latter dissociates into seven atoms, the former into two triads and a single atom.

From Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements by A. P. Sinnett

When people are more dissociated, “they may describe feeling numb, being on ‘autopilot,’ ” Brand says.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

She now believes she dissociated during the encounter and there was a "massive power imbalance", she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

In this series of occasional stories, we explore the trials, myths and realities of one of the most culturally dissociated parts of the Golden State — rural, conservative California — through its schools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

In his scheme, the qubits would consist not of atoms, but those special anyon pairs, which can capture quantum information in their dissociated electrons.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

"If you can trick gold into dissociating oxygen, it can actually become a very effective catalyst for certain reactions," Montemore said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

"She's created popularity by dissociating herself from the party's stagnant image," he says.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

So that was a good tool that they put into the script of her dissociating, kind of going somewhere else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

Some people respond by mentally "dissociating," or disconnecting from their physical selves.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2021

At its annual convention in Washington, DC, a group of women offered a resolution officially dissociating the group from Stanton and The Woman's Bible.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling


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