Sentence examples for mild reducing from inspiring English sources

Sodium borohydride is a relatively mild reducing agent, while lithium aluminum hydride is among the most powerful.

The formation of permanent waves in the beauty treatment of hair is based on partial reduction of the disulfide bonds of hair keratin by thioglycol, or some other mild reducing agent, and subsequent oxidation of the sulfhydryl groups (−SH) in the reoriented hair to disulfide bonds (−S−S−) by exposure to the oxygen of the air.

Alcohols are chosen as oxidizing agents for their mild reducing character and their availability.

Ascorbic acid, a mild reducing agent, was used because of its ability to precipitate metallic silver in acidic condition according to the following reaction-.

Since anisotropic nanostructures are only favourable in a slow reduction process, we have used mild reducing agent, sodium citrate, during the growth process.

Next, ascorbic acid (0.55 ml, 0.1 M) was added to the growth solution as a mild reducing agent, following the addition of seed solution (0.12 mL).

Ration of mild reduced to one third of a point per head by the end of the year.

Mobility impairment was graded using an arbitrary scale where 0 = none, 1 = mild (reduced and slower movement), 2 = moderate (movement upon stimulation), and 3 = severe (no movement).

Chemical reduction of the platinum precursor complex using milder reducing agents in the temperature range of 75 85 °C, and using ethylene glycol at 140 °C yields the smallest platinum particle sizes observed in this study, a result confirmed by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy measurements.

The major drawback in the use of cysteine proteases is that thiol proteases are reduced by metal ions and air oxidation; thus, there is a need for chelating agents and a milder reducing environment for activation, therefore making the use of cysteine proteases cost inefficient [ 4].

For something milder, reduce or omit the ground hot pepper.