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desiccation

[ US /ˌdɛsəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌɛsɪkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. dryness resulting from the removal of water
  2. the process of extracting moisture

How To Use desiccation In A Sentence

  • The major modalities in electrosurgery are electrodesiccation, fulguration, electrocoagulation, and electrosection.
  • Di- and oligosaccharides are replaced by monosaccharides, while dehydrins and other desiccation-related proteins disappear.
  • For when the spirit, or moisture turned to spirit, has escaped from some porous body (as wood, bone, parchment, and the like), then the grosser parts are with stronger effort drawn and collected together; whence ensues induration or desiccation, which I take to be owing not so much to the motion of connection to prevent a vacuum as to this motion of friendship and union. The New Organon
  • Throughout the whole study, seed desiccation tolerance was quantified both in terms of water content and water activity.
  • The dramatic desiccation of North Africa is a perplexing phenomenon.
  • The embryo matures and the seed accumulates storage products, acquires desiccation tolerance, and loses water.
  • WASHINGTON - Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter Martian past. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • The water bubbler humidified the air to minimize desiccation.
  • CAM also occurs in some resurrection plants that are desiccation-tolerant and can shift between biosis and anabiosis as they dry out and are rewatered, respectively.
  • The film block design utilize special mixed desiccation to get off water and acid.
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