acetylate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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(tr) to introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound)
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(intr) (of a chemical compound) to gain or suffer substitution of an acetyl group
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Etymology
Origin of acetylate
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In essence what you do there is acetylate the conker.
From BBC ● May 6, 2011
To further test this mechanism, the researchers engineered a version of MED1 missing six specific acetylation sites, which made it incapable of being acetylated.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2025
These drugs maintain the demethylated and the acetylated forms of the DNA to keep transcription of necessary genes “on”.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In June 2015 he and his colleagues showed that their acetylated trehalose could allow frozen rat cells to be revivified, just as they had hoped.
From Economist ● Feb. 4, 2016
The company hopes to license the technology to others, and is working on Tricoya, an acetylated MDF that can be left outdoors untreated, unlike regular MDF.
From BBC ● May 6, 2011
From an ergosterol derivative, which they acetylated, oxidized with chromic acid, hydrolized and distilled, they built up the white crystals of theelin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since tannin on acetylating yields a considerable amount of triacetylgallic acid, it should, according to Dekker, contain at least six acetylisable hydroxyls.
From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg
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