The phrase "altering the formula" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes or modifications made to a specific formula, whether in mathematics, science, or other contexts.
Example: "The researchers are altering the formula to improve the efficiency of the chemical reaction."
Alternatives: "modifying the formula" or "changing the formula."
The new designer drugs – or, as the wryly exploratory users' lingo has it, "research chemicals" – are invented by slightly altering the formula for known molecules such as MDMA (ecstasy), ketamine, LSD and so on.
Mr. Mathieu said the site would incorporate transit data whenever a uniform source could be found, and he is also considering altering the formula used to calculate the walking distances.
Schieffer asks if she'd be open to altering the "formula for Social Security" and Pelosi says, "What do you mean?" Schieffer doesn't actually specifiy anything.
Anaplan apps are aimed specifically at the enterprise financial planners and as such, they can download an app, get started very quickly, then customize it to meet their own forecasting and planning requirements, whether that's altering the formulas or the language used to match the needs of an individual organization.
His performance helped convince Nascar officials to alter the formula for determining the Chase field.
Uchida and Goode admire what Busch and Serkin created and have no wish to alter the formula.
If you converted Maxime's personal style to Fahrenheit (to alter the formula), you could boil water.
But there is a real concern that these innovations could alter the formula through which member stations pay NPR for programming.
It also altered the formula it used to calculate a family's ability to pay for college so that middle-income students would be eligible for more aid.
This time around, however, to persuade artists to participate in the online services, the record companies have altered the formula, eliminating certain fees that used to be charged against royalties and leaving the artists with a bigger -- slightly bigger -- profit.
All Babbel has done to alter the formula was to add the volatile Wiese and two more established if not perhaps too ambitious players represented by the same agency to this combustible mix.
