While you cannot drink denatured alcohol, you can still use it to remove sticker glue from most surfaces.
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Denature
Synonyms for "denature" (96 found)
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14 translations across 9 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- desnaturalitzar verb (to take away a natural characteristic of)
- desnaturar verb (to take away a natural characteristic of)
Czech
1 entries- denaturovat verb (to add substance to make unsuitable for consumption)
Danish
1 entries- denaturere verb (to take away a natural characteristic of)
Finnish
1 entries- denaturoida verb (to subject a protein to conditions altering its original form)
French
2 entries- dénaturer verb (to take away a natural characteristic of)
- dénaturer verb (to subject a protein to conditions altering its original form)
German
2 entries- denaturieren verb (to subject a protein to conditions altering its original form)
- vergällen verb (to add substance to make unsuitable for consumption)
Persian
1 entries- واسرشتن verb (to subject a protein to conditions altering its original form)
Polish
2 entries- denaturować verb (to add substance to make unsuitable for consumption)
- denaturować verb (to subject a protein to conditions altering its original form)
Spanish
2 entries- desnaturalizar verb (to take away a natural characteristic of)
- desnaturalizar verb (to subject a protein to conditions altering its original form)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Sugars are wonderfully robust materials! Unlike proteins that easily denature and coagulate, unlike fats that are damaged by air and heat and go rancid, unlike starch chains that break apart into smaller chains of glucose molecules, sugars themselves are small and stable molecules.
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Because the activity of an enzyme depends on its structure, any change in that structure will destroy its effectiveness. So cooking foods sufficiently will denature and inactivate any enzymes they may contain.
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