reswell

present singular third person reswells · participle present reswelling · past reswelled · participle past reswollen · participle past reswelled

1. chemistryTo add liquid so as to cause a dried substance, such as a gel, to expand.

   For membranes which have been dried out and reswollen, conditioning to the solvent is accomplished in a much shorter time than for the highly swollen cellulose.

   1949, CR Masson, HW Melville, “Osmometry of high polymer solutions”, in Journal of Polymer Science

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   Then gel pieces were reswelled in 50 µL of 50 mM NH4HCO3 buffer containing 12.5 ng/µL trypsin (modified porcine trypsin sequence grade, Promega, Madison, WI, USA), and incubated for 1 h at 4 °C.

   2015, Aurore Chevin et al., “Characterisation of Structural Proteins from Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus (CBPV) Using Mass Spectrometry”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI