0 present participle of dehydrate --
1 to lose water, or to cause water to be lost from something, especially from a person's body: --
The osmolality in the plasma is lower than the surrounding water, which is dehydrating for the animal.
High-energy phosphate bonds are pyrophosphate bonds, acid anhydride linkages formed by taking phosphoric acid derivatives and dehydrating them.
All food preservation depends on arresting the rate of spoilage, whether by curing or salting, which goes back centuries, by canning, by freezing, by dehydrating or, nowadays, by irradiation.
I understand that this is a new and successful process of dehydrating food and preserving it for a long period without losing its flavour.
How many plants have we in this country for dehydrating food?
Also, isocyanic acid, a decomposition product of urea, was suggested to act as a dehydrating agent in the thermal reaction.
The cytoplasmic channels, present in the outer part of the intine of the mature, dehydrating pollen grain, degenerate and develop into electron-dense inclusions.
Likewise, the effect of a ' dehydrating agent ' or ' water-structure breaker ' is likely to be greater on the nearby surfaces than on the water.
