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    moderately sealed container. The word desiccation comes from Latin de- 'thoroughly' and siccare 'to dry'. Desiccation is widely employed in the oil and gas...
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    substance needing desiccation is put in the upper compartment, usually on a glazed, perforated ceramic plate. The ground-glass rim of the desiccator lid must be...
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    tissues. Desiccation of crops through the use of herbicides is practiced worldwide on a variety of food and non-food crops. Crop desiccation can improve...
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  • niches and, so, exhibit a variety of strategies to avoid desiccation. In general, desiccation resistance in insects is measured by the change in mass during...
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  • Desiccated thyroid extract (DTE), is thyroid gland that has been dried and powdered for medical use. It is used to treat hypothyroidism, but less preferred...
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    Degenerative disc disease (DDD) is a medical condition typically brought on by the aging process in which there are anatomic changes and possibly a loss...
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  • Other names Eczema craquelé, Pruritus hiemalis, Asteatotic eczema, Winter itch,: 81  Desiccation dermatitis, and Winter eczema) Specialty Dermatology...
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    A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded such that the relief is sharp. Such an area may be referred to as mountainous, but...
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    biofacts can be preserved, including through carbonisation, waterlogging, desiccation and mineralization. There are also varying methods of recovering them...
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    oxidative stresses associated with desiccation are obstacles that must be overcome in order to maintain desiccation tolerance. Many of the mechanisms utilized...
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    Evaporated milk, known in some countries as "unsweetened condensed milk", is a shelf-stable canned cow’s milk product for which approximately 60% of the...
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    of extreme desiccation. The term anhydrobiosis derives from the Greek for "life without water" and is most commonly used for the desiccation tolerance...
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    reactivate after this time. The ability of Chroococcidiopsis to resist desiccation in arid environments is due in part because it colonizes the underside...
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    matrix that protects cytoplasm from damage during desiccation. Anhydrobiosis in response to desiccation has a complex molecular basis; in Hypsibius exemplaris...
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    survive almost complete desiccation. Resurrection plants are vascular rooted plants capable of surviving extreme desiccation, then resuming normal metabolic...
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    Mudcrack (redirect from Desiccation crack)
    Mudcracks (also known as mud cracks, desiccation cracks or cracked mud) are sedimentary structures formed as muddy sediment dries and contracts. Crack...
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    "urine-diverting") in connection with terms like "dehydration", "dry", "drying", "desiccation" (for the second "D") which gives quite a high number of possible mutations...
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    Embryons desséchés ("Desiccated embryos") is a piano composition by Erik Satie, composed in the summer of 1913. The composition consists of three little...
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    valleys, the same effect occurs over a rock base, leading to a barren and desiccated landscape. Antarctica is colder than the Arctic region, as much of Antarctica...
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    the Miocene (5.33 mya). Some research has suggested that a desiccation-flooding-desiccation cycle may have repeated several times, which could explain...
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    Coconut (redirect from Desiccated coconut)
    conditions, the new leaves do not open well, and older leaves may become desiccated; fruit also tends to be shed. The extent of cultivation in the tropics...
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    5 Desiccation, desulfurization and purification of petroleum gas and natural gas 13X-AS 10 0.55–0.65 23–24 0.3–0.5 Decarburization and desiccation in...
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    store energy for the fern as it desiccates, allowing it to survive higher temperatures and extreme periods of desiccation. The fern has spores on the bottom...
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    grain-grinding culture. Climate changes or overgrazing around 8000 BCE began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara. Early tribal peoples...
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    land in river valleys and oases. The Aral Sea, which has been largely desiccated by cotton production established in the Soviet era, is considered one...
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  • growth, thus desiccation does not completely inhibit bacterial growth. The instrument used to carry out this process is called a desiccator. This process...
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    devastating losses in ecosystem services and toxic surges of pollutants. The desiccation of saline lakes produces fine dust particles that impair agriculture...
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    structure developed by the shrinkage of sediment without desiccation – not to be confused with desiccation cracks. Syneresis is the expulsion of a liquid from...
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  • Poikilohydry (category Desiccation)
    desiccation has been utilized in the Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryote kingdoms to take advantage of ecological niches. The tolerance to desiccation is...
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    matrix that protects cytoplasm from damage during desiccation. Anhydrobiosis in response to desiccation has a complex molecular basis; in Hypsibius exemplaris...
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