Definition of "nucleating" [nucleating]

• Present participle of nucleate. (verb)
• That encourages nucleation (adjective)

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• "But, what makes this research more complicated is that most known ice-nucleating bacteria are plant pathogens."
• "Supersaturation can exist because nucleating new ice crystals is a slow process, although natural cirrus clouds show that spontaneous nucleation does happen."
• "Lasker was the center of this collective, its nucleating force, its queen bee."