0 present participle of dehydrate
1 to lose water, or to cause water to be lost from something, especially from a person's body:
Because of low permeability to water vapour, these dressings are not dehydrating to the wound.
The strength of this approach is that it also takes into account the cost of dehydrating the helix backbone and the energy for salt-bridge formation.
The polymerization reaction occurred by taking advantage of the high polarity of molten urea as well as its dehydrating ability.
Another possible approach is heating of amino acids to bring about dehydrating condensation.
The superhelical structures form coils and filaments associated with the cytoskeleton, and finally generate intracellular filament networks within the dehydrating cells.
In both cases, the large energy cost required for dehydrating the permeating ion must be compensated by strong and tight interactions with the protein channel.
These data showed that urea played important roles as both a solvent and a dehydrating reagent in the polymerization of alanine.
Likewise, the effect of a ' dehydrating agent ' or ' water-structure breaker ' is likely to be greater on the nearby surfaces than on the water.
