nucleate
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
adjective
verb
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Etymology
Origin of nucleate
First recorded in 1860–65, nucleate is from the Latin word nucleātus having a kernel or stone. See nucleus, -ate 1
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The research team delved deeply into possible mechanisms for diamonds to nucleate and grow under these new conditions.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
“There also needs to be laboratory research to investigate the consequences of adding these metals to sulfuric acid particles. Can the particles nucleate ice and impact clouds and chemistry in the stratosphere?”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Over time, Duszyn´ski hopes the elite teams will nucleate Ukraine’s scientific revival, by strengthening their connections to top institutions all over the world.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 6, 2022
So I think it’s artistic license to suggest that that could nucleate some fireworks.
From The Verge ● Dec. 17, 2021
In areas that have been collectivized there has been some effort to remove buildings from productive land and to nucleate the villages.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier
"Basically, you could have different types of order that get nucleated because of the proximity of these two frustrated lattices," he said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
Dr Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues have identified more than 600 suspected houses in the Brusselstown Ring making it, to date, the largest nucleated settlement ever discovered in the entirety of prehistoric Britain and Ireland.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026
Recall that all other nucleated cells of the body expressed MHC I molecules, which signal “healthy” or “normal.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
This observation indicates that the cylindrical crystals evolve from the 30-nm seeds by epitaxial growth, and that they are not newly nucleated crystals.
From Nature ● Mar. 14, 2017
Margulis has summarized the now considerable body of data indicating that the modern nucleated cell was made up, part by part, by the coming together of just such prokaryotic animals.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
"And all of the ice nucleation in nature that is extremely effective seems to be done by proteins, although the size of the individual ice nucleating proteins vary a lot among organisms."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
The quantification of ice nucleating particles and understanding their properties proved to be a cumbersome challenge.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
But the thing I would gently push back on is that the notion of a collision nucleating some vast explosion is not at all clear.
From The Verge ● Dec. 17, 2021
The first galaxies probably started out small and disorganized, nucleating around clumps of dark matter, unseen stuff that makes up 85% of the matter of the universe.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 11, 2021
But always the nucleating force behind the bands was warfare and the prestige of certain war leaders.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy
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