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DENATURATION [4 records]

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Record 1 2022-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Safety
  • Meats and Meat Industries
DEF

[The staining or the treatment of] the meat product to give it an appearance or characteristic such that it cannot be confused with an edible meat product.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salubrité alimentaire
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
DEF

Opération consistant à badigeonner d'une teinture le produit de viande [...] ou à traiter un produit de viande de manière à lui donner un aspect ou des caractéristiques tels qu'il ne puisse être confondu avec un produit de viande comestible.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
DEF

[The process of] modifying the molecular structure of a protein.

OBS

Denaturation involves the breaking of many of the weak linkages, or bonds (e.g. hydrogen bonds), within a protein molecule that are responsible for the highly ordered structure of the protein in its natural (native) state. Denatured proteins have a looser, more random structure; most are insoluble.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
CONT

En biochimie, la dénaturation est une altération de la structure moléculaire d'une protéine qui rend celle-ci non fonctionnelle. Elle est un changement structurel des protéines ou des acides nucléiques où ils perdent leur structure native et, de cette manière, leur fonctionnement optimal et modifient parfois leurs propriétés physico-chimiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioquímica
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Record 3 2007-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics
CONT

Denaturation of fissile materials suitable for nuclear weapons is the process of transforming them into a form that is not suitable for weapons use and can not easily be reversely transformed. For Uranium 235 this is easy, by mixing it with Uranium 238, but for plutonium it is more difficult and/or less effective, because other plutonium isotopes are either also suitable for weapons or not available and not practical to produce, while mixing with another element allows chemical separation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique
CONT

Framatome participe dans le cadre d'un programme international au développement d'un réacteur GT-MHR de 286 MWe, intrinsèquement sûr, dont la vocation est la dénaturation du plutonium militaire.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
DEF

The separation of the two strands of a DNA double helix.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
DEF

Dans le cas de l'ADN, la rupture des liaisons hydrogène provoque la séparation des deux brins de la molécule d'ADN.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
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