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drying

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Drying is a mass transfer process consisting of the removal of water or another solvent by evaporation from a solid , semi-solid or liquid . This process is often used as a final production step before selling or packaging products. To be considered "dried", ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of dry. 2 A method of food preservation by removing water. vb. (present participle of dry English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drying .] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry , a.] To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; ...

Usage examples of drying.

A quick method of drying out the fingers is to place them in full strength acetone for approximately 30 minutes.

Asia, the drowning of many productive lowland farming areas by rising sea levels, and the pollution of aquifers and the acidification or drying of freshwater lakes.

It possesses an acrid, biting taste, somewhat like that of the Peppermint, which resides in the glandular dots sprinkled about its surface, and which is lost in drying.

Ores of Lead -- Geographical Distribution of the Lead Industry -- Chemical and Physical Properties of Lead -- Alloys of Lead -- Compounds of Lead -- Dressing of Lead Ores -- Smelting of Lead Ores -- Smelting in the Scotch or American Ore-hearth -- Smelting in the Shaft or Blast Furnace -- Condensation of Lead Fume -- Desilverisation, or the Separation of Silver from Argentiferous Lead -- Cupellation -- The Manufacture of Lead Pipes and Sheets -- Protoxide of Lead -- Litharge and Massicot -- Red Lead or Minium -- Lead Poisoning -- Lead Substitutes -- Zinc and its Compounds -- Pumice Stone -- Drying Oils and Siccatives -- Oil of Turpentine Resin -- Classification of Mineral Pigments -- Analysis of Raw and Finished Products -- Tables -- Index.

Some assayers advise cleaning by dipping in warm dilute hydrochloric acid followed by washing in water and drying.

Presently he saw the child turn at the call of a woman in the Place du Vier Prison, who appeared to apologise to the Bailly, busy now drying his recovered hat by whipping it through the air.

In 1963, the cost of mining and drying bauxite was estimated as being 1.

Drying in the sunlight beside her was the novel he had thrown into the bidet, its pages flowering into an elegant ruff.

I imagined, for a moment, that I had the powers of a cetic and that I could see the wrinkled, ancient Soli through the taut olive skin of his new body, in the same manner one envisions a fireflower drying to a brittle black, or the skull of death beneath the pink flesh of a newborn baby boy.

Pond on Colden Common, bordering on Otterbourne, and the green banks were strewn with shells left by the herons, but the pond is fast drying up and the herons have been driven away by guns.

I was wholly engaged in drying my tears as we were driving through the beautiful street of Toledo, and it was only after we had left Naples that I could find time to examine the countenance of my travelling companions.

Preliminary Treatment of the Fabric -- Waterproofing with Acetate of Alumina -- Impregnation of the Fabric -- Drying -- Waterproofing with Paraffin -- Waterproofing with Ammonium Cuprate -- Waterproofing with Metallic Oxides -- Coloured Waterproof Fabrics -- Waterproofing with Gelatine, Tannin, Caseinate of Lime and other Bodies -- Manufacture of Tarpaulin -- British Waterproofing Patents -- Index.

Properties and Composition -- Preparation of Raw Materials: Disaggregation -- Purification -- Preparation of Bodies: By Plastic Method -- By Dry Method -- By Liquid Method -- Formation, Processes of Formation: Throwing -- Expression -- Moulding by Hand, on the Jolley, by Compression, by Slip Casting -- Slapping -- Slipping -- Drying.

George would have had an electric box of tricks for regulating the length of exposures, a mass of developing equipment and a drier for drying the finished prints.

The fermented cacao is conveyed from the fermentary to the drying trays or floors.