flash-freeze
Americanverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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Instead of laboriously crystallizing a viral protein and bombarding it with X-rays, the scientists flash-freeze proteins and scatter a beam of electrons off them.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2022
But you don’t have to flash-freeze your home.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2021
On the packed-earth floor sat a cooler with dry ice and a canister full of liquid nitrogen, which is needed to flash-freeze tissues for genetic studies.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021
As Horn bobbed in half-frozen slush, Ousland—careful not to get his hands wet, which could flash-freeze them into uselessness—reached from the edge of the ice and desperately grasped his partner’s harness and pulled.
From National Geographic • Dec. 24, 2020
Workers then wrap them, put them on trays and proceed to first steam, then flash-freeze them by the hundreds.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2019
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