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pre·par·a·tive

(prĭ-păr′ə-tĭv, -pâr′-)

adj.

Serving or tending to prepare or make ready; preliminary.

Something that prepares for or acts as a preliminary to something following.

pre·par′a·tive·ly adv.

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Doecke, "Preparatively useful dehydrogenative method for dodecahedrane synthesis," Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol.

Five Regioisomers of Dimethyl Dodecahedrane Derivatives: A Hybrid DFT B3LYP Study

Biochemical characterization of the three major subclasses of lipoprotein A-I preparatively isolated from human plasma.

A comparison of the theoretical relationship between HDL size and the ratio of HDL cholesterol to apolipoprotein A-I with experimental results from the women's health study

(9) And no less a "spiritist" than John Cotton acknowledged that the Spirit works preparatively upon the unconverted, first by binding them "under the sense of [divine] wrath unto fear of Damnation" and then--having come as an "earthquake" to press them "down to the nethermost hell"--by requiring them to experience a "burning" and "blasting" of the "iron" heart's "fleshly" piety, a renunciation of "false confidence" in "legal" deeds.

Redeeming free grace: Thomas Hooker and the contested language of salvation

1 paper; solvent, propan-1-ol:ethyl acetate:water (7:1:2)] for 48-55h resolved standards (D-fructose, D-glucose, sucrose and raffinose) and analytically and/ or preparatively separated sugars in 100[micro]L of honeydew.

Rota metabolica de oligossacarideos em exsudato da "doenca acucarada" do sorgo causado por Claviceps africana

The catalytic activity of the complex with ligand A1 was considerably higher than that of the Sharpless complex that enables to get satisfactory conversions with all substrates already at -20[degrees]C and to reach preparatively acceptable isolated yields also for the less reactive ketone 7.2.