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  • verb Present participle of hydrolize.

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Examples

  • It was a plastic foil bag of finely sliced potatoes boiled in oil and dusted in salt, industrialized powdered foodstuffs, preservatives, enhancers, hydrolizing and raising agents, acidity regulators, and coloring.

    Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010

  • It was a plastic foil bag of finely sliced potatoes boiled in oil and dusted in salt, industrialized powdered foodstuffs, preservatives, enhancers, hydrolizing and raising agents, acidity regulators, and coloring.

    Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010

  • Often used as a pharmaceutical solvent, industrial quantities are made by hydrolizing benzyl chloride with soda ash, but we much prefer the old-school method of production: Feed toluene to Cladosporium fungi, which will digest it and excrete benzyl alcohol.

    What's Inside: Antifungal Agent Lotrimin Ultra 2007

  • It was a plastic foil bag of finely sliced potatoes boiled in oil and dusted in salt, industrialized powdered foodstuffs, preservatives, enhancers, hydrolizing and raising agents, acidity regulators, and coloring.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

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