Examples of 'reductive' in a sentence

Meaning of "reductive"

Reductive describes approaches, explanations, or analyses that oversimplify or reduce complex ideas or issues to a more basic or simplistic form
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  • Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.
  • Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.
  • That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.
  • That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.

How to use "reductive" in a sentence

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Reductive elimination is the reverse of oxidative addition.
It is notable for being capable of reductive dechlorination of chlorophenols.
Reductive elimination liberates the tetrahydroanthracene compound.
Maintain the results of reductive aesthetic surgery.
The reductive reaction is carried out in a solvent.
So you tend to be less reductive in your thinking.
Reductive massage for cellulite and flaccidity.
Suitable conditions can be reductive alkylation conditions.
The reductive atmosphere advantageously comprises hydrogen.
Another perfect example of your reductive reasoning.
And cost reductive and cost effective.
I do not think you are being vague or reductive at all.
Lysine reductive methylation was performed as previously described.
It can be prepared from benzil by reductive amination.
The reductive amination proceeds vía an intermediate imine.

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He almost entirely used the reductive method.
Reductive or oxidative bleaching methods may be used.
Process for the reductive alkylation of normorphinans.
This should be an additive as well as a reductive process.
Alternative reductive amination procedures are also available.
Be free and far from reductive models.
Comparison with reductive dechlorination of polychlorobiphenyls.
The result has been oversimplification of a reductive kind.
It seems almost reductive to call it an independent label.
It is this reaction which is referred to as reductive ozonolysis.
You have such a reductive view of the world.
I think the word entertainment is too reductive.
It seems a really reductive thing to say.
Reductive cleavage of iodides occurs with retention of configuration.
With regard to a scientistic and reductive approach.
A group is called reductive if its unipotent radical is trivial.
The reactions may be oxidative or reductive in nature.
This reductive procedure redirects awareness to hearing alone.
This technique can be done as a reductive or additive process.
The reductive pentose phosphate cycle.
Water is a required reactant in the reductive hydrolysis.
When being reductive to people who do not know you.
The pyrene group was introduced by reductive amination.
I am aware of how reductive and arbitrary that seems.
The oligosaccharide chains were radiolabeled by reductive tritiation.
It is also produced by reductive amination of acetaldehyde.
In solution carbohydrates may be derivatised by reductive amination.
It would be reductive to squeeze them into a single category.
Stripping can be conducted under reductive conditions.
This reductive atmosphere also preferentially comprises argon.
The amino group is introduced by reductive animation.
They like a reductive narrative of people butting heads.
This material was used as is in the reductive amination.
The reductive amination was done in two batches.
There was a qualitative reductive decision indeed.

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