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heterolyze

heterolyze verb: to cause or to undergo heterolysis.

Verb

heterolyze (third-person singular simple present heterolyzes, present participle heterolyzing, simple past and past participle heterolyzed)

  1. To cause or to undergo heterolysis.

Forms of heterolyze

third-person singular presentheterolyzes
present participleheterolyzing
past participleheterolyzed
pastheterolyzed
alternative formheterolyse

Questions about heterolyze

What does heterolyze mean?
Heterolyze means to cause or to undergo heterolysis.
What part of speech is heterolyze?
Heterolyze is a verb.
What is the past tense of heterolyze?
The past tense of heterolyze is heterolyzed.

Words near heterolyze in the dictionary

  1. heterolysis
  2. heterolysosome
  3. heterolysosomes
  4. heterolytic
  5. heterolytically
  6. heterolyze
  7. heteromacromolecule
  8. heteromacromolecules
  9. heteromale
  10. heteromales
  11. heteromallous

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