to cross-link

Examples

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• Membrex designers also chemically cross-link the membrane matrix to stabilize it against a wide range of contaminants.

  Academic text (1994)

• Municipex, a cross-linked polyethylene water service line designed for the potable water industry, offers municipal engineers an alternative to copper for buried water-service lines.

  Academic text (2002)

• Two cross-linked hyaluronans were created.

  Academic text (2002)

• Stereocilia within a bundle are cross-linked to each other in at least two different ways.

  Academic text (1998)

• And it forms this long polymer chain that cross links and interacts and solidifies.

• "Once printed, you can cross-link them and make a gel-like structure, so the material is different... and very hydrated."

  Blog text (12)

• These plastics gain stability through curing, a process that hardens a material by irreversibly cross linking its molecular chains.

• Among the proteins that are cross-linked through the interaction of sugar and proteins are the crystallins of the human lens and the membrane proteins of the kidney and blood vessels.

  Academic text (1992)

• Yeast cells (200 ml of OD600 0.5) were cross-linked with 1% formaldehyde for 20 minutes at room temperature.

  Academic text (2017)

• Each stereocilium (Figure 1B) is composed of straight (actin) filaments which run along its length from tip to base; the filaments are cross-linked to each other and to the cell membrane.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

L

to link up

vsto cross-link

• Informal

9 3.0

To join people, places, or things so they become connected

describes a specific chemical joining of neighboring chains, not a general connection

I

to interlink

vsto cross-link

4 4.5

Connect things so they depend on each other

applies specifically to chemically joining adjacent chains rather than general connection

L

to ligate

vsto cross-link

• Specialized

1 9.9

To join two molecules together with a chemical bond using an enzyme

is specific to joining adjacent polymer or protein chains with covalent bonds

C

to catenate

vsto cross-link

9.9

To link things together in a chain

connects separate chains by creating covalent bonds between them

How Extensive

to interlink

4 4.5

to cross-link

• Jargon

1 7.0

to connect

278 1.1

to link

442 1.1

to bond

25 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology