heat labile

Adjective

heat labile (comparative more heat labile, superlative most heat labile)

1. Not heat stable; that breaks down at high temperatures.
   • The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-Aᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody.1969, Robert P. Orange, K. Frank Austen, “Slow Reacting Substance of Anaphylaxis”, in Advances in Immunology - Volume 10, page 144
   • The extent of thermal destruction of a heat labile substance during thermal processing is a function of the sensitivity (or the “thermal resistance”) of the particular substance to the various temperatures at which it is exposed and the time that the substance remains at each one of these...2006, Nikolaos G. Stofors, Petros S. Taoukis, “Heat Processing: Temperature-Time Combinations”, in Yiu H. Hui, editor, Handbook of Food Science, Technology, and Engineering - Volume 3, pages 109-2