Example Sentences
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"With its fin immersed into the cell membrane, it rides along the inner surface and swiftly detoxifies lipid peroxides as it goes."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 9, 2025
Taiwanese law requires organic peroxides to be stored in a separate warehouse building, but Launch Technologies kept the material on the first floor of the factory building, Chou said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
The ROSs and lipid peroxides then triggered intensive oxidative bursts, while the protons lowered the intracellular pH value, creating an unfavourable acidic microenvironment for the cancer cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
When ozone wafts into buildings, it reacts with limonene and similar molecules called monoterpenes, turning them into peroxides, alcohols, and other molecules that grow into airborne particles.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 24, 2022
The presence of peroxides of the heavy metals is prejudicial, since they tend to increase the quantity of silver retained in the slag.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
