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ACTIVATING AGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does activating agent mean?
• ACTIVATING AGENT (noun)
The noun ACTIVATING AGENT has 1 sense:
1. (mineral extraction) a surface-active chemical used in flotation process to increase the attraction to a specific mineral
Familiarity information: ACTIVATING AGENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(mineral extraction) a surface-active chemical used in flotation process to increase the attraction to a specific mineral
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("activating agent" is a kind of...):
activator ((biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription)
Domain category:
beneficiation; mineral dressing; mineral extraction; mineral processing; ore dressing; ore processing (crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques)
Context examples
A replication-incompetent adenovirus encoding E. coli purine nucleoside phosphorylase (Ad/PNP) used as a prodrug activating agent.
(Adenovirus-Encoding E.coli PNP, NCI Thesaurus)
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