Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective releasing energy.
- adjective prenominal catabolic.
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- adjective of or relating to catabolism
- adjective (of a nuclear reaction) occurring with evolution or releasing of energy
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Examples
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After the energy-releasing power of nuclear fission was discovered, scientists in Germany and the US scrambled to put the new research to military use: in the form of an atomic bomb.
Katie Engelhart: Political Fallout: Will Germany Go Nuclear-Free? Katie Engelhart 2011
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In the world of Sillanpää's novels, man is only a part of the universe: nature is equally important, if not more so, and forms a unity with human beings under the energy-releasing force and guidance of the sun.
Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009
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In 1989, two well respected scientists working within the mainstream made an empirical discovery while experimenting on the energy-releasing characteristics of Deuterium: Setting off a firestorm of controversy that changed their lives, and the life of another prominent scientist … Beyond human measure.
Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement (Part 3) 2008
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As Dr Bussard says 00:05:37 "This is the only nuclear energy-releasing process in the whole world that releases fusion energy as 3 Helium atoms and no neutrons"
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As Dr Bussard says 00:05:37 "This is the only nuclear energy-releasing process in the whole world that releases fusion energy as 3 Helium atoms and no neutrons"
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Also within the end bulb, substructures called mitochondrions a, Fig. 5-3 convert sugar and oxygen into energy-releasing molecules for use by the neuron as needed.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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Also within the end bulb, substructures called mitochondrions a, Fig. 5-3 convert sugar and oxygen into energy-releasing molecules for use by the neuron as needed.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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"Liberty," Garibaldi's phrase, "Rome or Death," etc., are so many examples of energy-releasing ideas.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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The challenge, though, was trapping the protein in the middle of the energy-releasing chain of events by coaxing it to hold onto a chemical mimic of ATP, in which the final phosphate cannot be removed as usual, and examining the "jammed" protein up close.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The challenge, though, was trapping the protein in the middle of the energy-releasing chain of events by coaxing it to hold onto a chemical mimic of ATP, in which the final phosphate cannot be removed as usual, and examining the "jammed" protein up close.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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