homolyse

English

Verb

homolyse (third-person singular simple present homolyses, present participle homolysing, simple past and past participle homolysed)

1. Alternative form of homolyze
   • 1919, Review of War Surgery and Medicine - Volume 2, page 83:

     There exists in the plasma of animals, both lower and higher classes, certain bodies which will agglutinate or agglutinate and homolyse the red blood cells of other individuals who are members of the same species.

   • 1979, Hugh Allen Oliver Hill, Inorganic Biochemistry - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 84:

     The intermediate 2,2,-dihydroxyethylcobalamin (cf. Scheme 24) could either homolyse to Cbl^II and a 2,2,-dihydroxyethyl radical or dehydrate to formylmethylcobalamin, which could homolyse to Cbl^II and formylmethyl radical.

   • 2003, P. J. Craig, Organometallic Compounds in the Environment, →ISBN, page 17:

     These are generally sufficient to homolyse metal–carbon bonds.