preparative
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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
These preparative mass spectrometers can be used to produce chemical compounds in a new way.
From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2023
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
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
This, no doubt, would be a better preparative for successful dealing with the young than is generally thought.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
