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sonicative

sonicative adjective: pertaining to sonication.

Adjective

sonicative (comparative more sonicative, superlative most sonicative)

  1. Pertaining to sonication.
    • Later we found pyridinium chlorochromate, (PCC) to be an effective oxidative reagent when a sonicative work up procedure is used.1990, WV Murray, “Synthesis of 3‐(1,5‐diphenyl‐3‐pyrazolyl)aryl propanoates”, in Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry
    • The ability of glutaraldehyde cross-linked DNA condensates to protect DNA from sonicative destruction in the presence of sodium chloride was evaluated by gel electrophoresis.1999, Wendy Turner Collard, Formulation and in vivo analysis of a low-molecular-weight liver-targeted nonviral gene delivery system

Forms of sonicative

comparativemore sonicative
superlativemost sonicative

Origin of sonicative

From sonicate + -ive.

Questions about sonicative

What does sonicative mean?
Sonicative means pertaining to sonication.
What part of speech is sonicative?
Sonicative is an adjective.

Words near sonicative in the dictionary

  1. sonicated
  2. sonicates
  3. sonicating
  4. sonication
  5. sonications
  6. sonicative
  7. sonicator
  8. sonicators
  9. sonics
  10. sonidegib
  11. sonifaction

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