heat labile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not heat stable; that breaks down at high temperatures.
Example Sentences
- "The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-Aᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody."
- "The extent of thermal destruction of a heat labile substance during thermal processing is a function of the sensitivity (or the “thermal resistance”) of the particular substance to the various temperatures at which it is exposed and the time that the substance remains at each one of these temperatures during the process."
- "It is a heat labile component destroyed at 56° C in 30 minutes."
Inflected Forms
more heat labile (comparative)
most heat labile (superlative)
heat-labile (alternative)
heatlabile (alternative)