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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
desaturate .
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Examples
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The Brookhaven scientists were trying to understand the factors that affect where carbon-carbon double bonds are placed in fatty acids, the building blocks of oils and fats, when they are "desaturated" - that is, when a desaturase enzyme removes hydrogen from the carbon chain.
Nano Tech Wire 2008
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For example, primary attitude control is maintained by the big control moment gyroscopes in the Z1 truss on the US side, but occasionally these need to be 'desaturated' which requires the firing of the Russian attitude control jets on Zvezda.
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Details about the desaturated Ms. Santa costume from Santacon.
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Dreamworks was trying to go for a more desaturated, Icelandic look with this one.
How To Train Your Dragon Concept Art: Much Cooler Looking Than the Movie? | /Film 2010
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There was a very strong, desaturated quality to Band of Brothers.
Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC – Collider.com 2010
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The film has always been, even at its most desaturated, a powerful visual experience, but with the fine-tuning of every element by Criterion, it now verges at times on being an assault on the senses.
Paris, Texas 2010
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Whilst I think it is unlikely that the world could ever look that desaturated or sharp,* I think this is a great series, if only because the pictures are masterful composed.
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The contrast was amped up and the color desaturated, giving the video look even chillier.
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A Franco-German production shot in Morocco, the film cuts between a Tehran teeming with demonstrators and repressive police and shot in desaturated colour, and a lush, dreamlike, mysterious garden where the women gather.
Women Without Men 2010
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The film has always been, even at its most desaturated, a powerful visual experience, but with the fine-tuning of every element by Criterion, it now verges at times on being an assault on the senses.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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