Powderize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To reduce to powder transitive

    "The spleen was harvested as a control where Smurf2 is known to be highly expressed in the WT. All specimens were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, powderized using a mortar and pestle, and stored at -80°C until time for protein or RNA isolation."

  2. 2
    make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust wordnet
  3. 3
    To be reduced to powder intransitive
  4. 4
    become powder or dust wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
pulverizepowderpowderisepulverisepulverize

Example

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"The spleen was harvested as a control where Smurf2 is known to be highly expressed in the WT. All specimens were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, powderized using a mortar and pestle, and stored at -80°C until time for protein or RNA isolation."

Etymology

From powder + -ize.

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