neutralization

neutralize | American Dictionary

neutralize
verb[ T ]
us/ˈnu·trəˌlɑɪz/

neutralizeverb[T] (PRODUCE EFFECT)

to produce an effect that removes the effect of something else:
Raising the sales tax will neutralize the tax cut.

neutralizeverb[T] (MAKE CHEMICALLY NEUTRAL)

science
to cause a substance to be neither an acid nor a base:
Acid in soil can be neutralized.

Examples of neutralize

neutralize
In particular, surplus countries often neutralized an inflow of gold by preventing it from adding to the domestic money supply.
There is increased curvilinear effect without accent neutralizing the effect of words.
In this way, the aspectual difference between have and get is neutralized in the constructions with the perfect got.
Such ions are stable on their own but only form stable compounds when their electrostatic charge is neutralized by ionic bonding.
In positions other than these three, the tonal contrast is neutralized.
Swinburne thinks, however, that this argument can be neutralized.
The second way in which product development is significant, however, neutralizes some of these subjectively proletarianizing effects.
A higher concentration of neutralizing antibody reduced survival to 15.6 6 7% of control (n 4).
Traditionally, cyclotron emission has been analyzed under the assumption that beam electrons are tenuous enough to neglect the effects of neutralizing ions.
Every model includes a return current which neutralizes the total current charge neutralization comes from the fixed ions background !.
In the interior they proceed at nearly constant speed because their motion is neutralized by a slow back current of the bulk plasma.
The differences that are noticeable are due to the preceding vowels, which were not controlled so that their influence was neutralized.
The data confirm previous observations in that saturation changes can be neutralized if the test target is increased in size.
One reactor design concept utilizes multiple heavy ion beams, charge neutralized by large-volume plasma.
In spite of the many and abundant bribes, the prospective traitors either were neutralized or, in most cases, did not stir.
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