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anneal in French

anneal in French is recuire — anneal means to heat something, usually metal, and then cool it slowly to make it less brittle and stronger.

anneal in French

recuire
verb
(metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

What does "anneal" mean?

  1. verb To heat something, usually metal, and then cool it slowly to make it less brittle and stronger.
  2. verb To cool glass down gradually so that stress does not build up inside it.
  3. verb To fix coloured designs onto glass or another surface using heat.
  4. verb (biology) To join two single strands of DNA or RNA together into a double strand.
    "The 5′ junction is checked using a target gene-specific primer of ~21 nucleotides, which anneals upstream of the cassette integration site, together with a primer which anneals downstream of the first loxP site in the PCR cassette."
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anneal in a sentence

  • The 5′ junction is checked using a target gene-specific primer of ~21 nucleotides, which anneals upstream of the cassette integration site, together with a primer which anneals downstream of the first loxP site in the PCR cassette.

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What is "anneal" in French?
"anneal" in French is recuire. anneal means: To heat something, usually metal, and then cool it slowly to make it less brittle and stronger.
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