desensitiser BrE
desensitizer AmE

During the next few days, Tom used the island's facilities to work on a desensitizer.

"It'll show how well the desensitizer can do its job," Tom explained.

"But their desensitizer is almost worthless," Tom concluded.

Gluma is a brand-name desensitizer, used in dentistry to treat sensitivity.

Nearby, Jeni Cuicet sat curled at one end of a sofa, pressing a neural desensitizer against her brow.

Merck Index also indicates that strontium chloride is used as a gum desensitizer under the commercial name "Elecol".

Dibutyl sebacate is a desensitizer in Otto Fuel II.

So now the problem is to figure out a desensitizer for the stuff-something to keep it from discharging all of a sudden as it did just now."

"That's because of the desensitizer I've mixed with it, so that the stuff won't pop off like a flash bulb the second it gets down to our atmosphere," Tom replied.

If there were sensors installed, the guards either knew to the inch the right path to take between the beams or they were equipped with desensitizer pads, for no alarm was sounded.

Research indicates that when used as a desensitizer under bonded restorative material, Gluma has no significant influence on bond strength, unlike some other liners, which contribute to a decrease in bond strength.

It also found use as a "productive" desensitizer (one that contributes to the overall power of the explosion rather than having a neutral or negative effect) in nitroglycerine and nitroglycol-based explosives such as dynamite and blasting gelatin.