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- noun chemistry A
covalent bond (or series of bonds) between adjacent chains of apolymer - noun biochemistry A similar bond between
strands ofnucleic acid - verb chemistry To join
polymer chains together to form one single molecule. An object made from a crosslinked material contains only one supergiant molecule. Crosslinking may take place through covalent bonds or ionic bonds
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Examples
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In “Allison”, what in fact was happening – although the writers tried mightily to keep it ambiguous – was fairly obvious: her glitch from the car bomb caused her to crosslink her self-awareness with her memories of the woman she was modeled after, and then channel those memories through her human emulation mode.
Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction 2009
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Of course it is not a perfect tree: the branches and subbranches—assemblies and subassemblies—interact and crosslink at different levels.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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A simple mutation to the small Factor XIII would allow it to crosslink one of the protofibrinogens, such as cortical granule lectin, that are present in, and released from, haemocytes.
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Update: See note below and crosslink on the movie Secret Nation.
Danny Williams: the problem of being known Ed Hollett 2007
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In some species of primates, it allows semen to remain quite liquid after ejaculation, but in others, semenogelin molecules chemically crosslink with one another, increasing the viscosity of semen.
Archive 2004-11-01 Chris 2004
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In some species of primates, it allows semen to remain quite liquid after ejaculation, but in others, semenogelin molecules chemically crosslink with one another, increasing the viscosity of semen.
Promiscuous Females = Better Semen Chris 2004
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To accomplish this, we used light as an initiation mechanism to crosslink materials through skin.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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Blood clot formation is usually initiated when damage to the inner lining of a blood vessel activates the "coagulation cascade," causing a blood protein called fibrinogen to crosslink into a fibrin clot.
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I usually have a table in my invoice, so ideally I would crosslink cells from the the pages doc with the corresponding cells in the numbers doc and be able to update any changes I make from the numbers to the pages document with the click of a button.
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I usually have a table in my invoice, so ideally I would crosslink cells from the the pages doc with the corresponding cells in the numbers doc and be able to update any changes I make from the numbers to the pages document with the click of a button.
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