sensitize
verb (used with object)
to render sensitive.
sensitizer
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a word derived from
sensitize.
Example Sentences
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The approach includes a metal-organic cage filled with one azobenzene molecule and one light-absorbing antenna molecule, the sensitizer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023
In this work, Exciton Science Research Fellow Dr Thilini Ishwara and her colleagues created a thin film of nanostructured alumina stained with a sensitizer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
The company has rejected diacetyl and acetaldehyde as flavorings and avoided developing a flavor that uses cocoa shell extract because of concerns that it might be a respiratory sensitizer, Costigan said in an e-mail.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2015
A monolayer of sensitizer molecules is anchored, with a linker, to an electron-accepting large-bandgap semiconductor such as titanium oxide, tin oxide or zinc oxide.
From Nature ● Aug. 15, 2012
If eosine solution is mixed with bromide of silver emulsion, which is entirely free from nitrate of silver, no eosine silver can form; it acts, therefore, only as an optical sensitizer.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 by Various
