single-step
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Scientists from the University of Nottingham's School of Chemistry, the University of Warwick and Diamond Light Source created a single-step approach that grows graphene-like films using a molecule called Azupyrene.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
This agreement between observed and predicted rate laws is interpreted to mean that the proposed unimolecular, single-step process is a reasonable mechanism for the butadiene reaction.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
“Any horse that dies is an absolute failure of the veterinary system that was looking after the athlete. “These are not single-step failures.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2016
But that advantage has not kept researchers from exploring a single-step alternative.
From Nature ● Apr. 23, 2014
These are the single-step duplicate locks known as the Pedro Miguel or "Peter Magill."
From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by Mills, J. Saxon
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