powderize

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English

Etymology

From powder +‎ -ize.

Verb

powderize (third-person singular simple present powderizes, present participle powderizing, simple past and past participle powderized)

  1. (transitive) To reduce to powder
    • 2016 January 28, “Skeletal Characterization of Smurf2-Deficient Mice and In Vitro Analysis of Smurf2-Deficient Chondrocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      The spleen was harvested as a control where Smurf2 is known to be highly expressed in the WT. All specimens were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, powderized using a mortar and pestle, and stored at -80°C until time for protein or RNA isolation.
  2. (intransitive) To be reduced to powder

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