freeze fracture
freeze fracture
nounDefinition of FREEZE FRACTURE
: preparation of a specimen (as of tissue) for examination by an electron microscope after freezing, fracturing along natural structural lines, and preparing a replica (as by simultaneous vapor deposition of carbon and platinum)
— freeze–frac·ture adjective
First Known Use of FREEZE FRACTURE
1973
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