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How To Use neutralise In A Sentence

• Our bodies depend on unabsorbed calcium to neutralize potentially harmful byproducts of digestion that can promote colon cancer and kidney stones.
• The pretreatment by transition metal cations helps to adsorb DNA on mica because it neutralizes the mica surface charge and then weakens the repulsive pressure.
• These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
• She concluded that the repetition of such images ultimately neutralizes their moral force.
• Its mission is to neutralize key defense positions and remove obstacles.
• Sprouting grains by soaking them first increases the amount of enzymes and neutralises the antinutrient phytic acid. Times, Sunday Times
• The undies neutralise smells thanks to a filter which removes odours through a thin and flexible carbon cloth. The Sun
• This is the only product that can neutralize toxins from rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads.
• However the state has opposed the defense lawyers 'request, saying giving out details of any work done on the government's behalf will "neutralise" its effect. ANC Daily News Briefing
• “Two hazardous waste containers were neutralised in a joint German-American operation, with the participation of scores of local Afghanis”? New Zealand in the GWOT? Swoon…. — Fusion Despatches