overneutralize
English edit
Etymology edit
over- + neutralize
Verb edit
overneutralize (third-person singular simple present overneutralizes, present participle overneutralizing, simple past and past participle overneutralized)
- (transitive) To make more neutral than required or expected, or (chemistry) beyond the neutral pH value.
- 1948, Laurence V. Burton, Week-end Painter, page 175:
- If you will overneutralize the colors in the background and increase the Chroma of the colors in the foreground, you will discover that depth will begin to come into your picture.
- 2013, Stanley Humphries, Charged Particle Beams, page 506:
- The electrons overneutralize and underneutralize the beam.