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/bˈaɪpɹədˌʌkt/
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[ US /ˈbaɪpɹɑdəkt/ ]
[ US /ˈbaɪpɹɑdəkt/ ]
NOUN
- a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
- a product made during the manufacture of something else
How To Use byproduct In A Sentence
- The radioactive gas xenon, which is often the byproduct of unexpected nuclear fission, was detected at the Fukushima Daiichi plant during tests. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Examples of this include companies that are extracting the petroleum from discarded plastic bottles and using it to create the polyester fibers that they turn into sportswear, and those producing synthetic gypsum roughly 20 percent of U.S. raw gypsum use from the byproduct of manufacturing and energy-generating processes, primarily from desulfurization of exhaust gases from coal power plants. John Friedman: Three Dimensions of Leadership
- PS Who wouldn't support nuclear fusion if they understood that one of the main byproducts is helium. The Future of Power Generation: Nuclear Fusion
- The red sludge is a byproduct of processing bauxite, a basic material for manufacturing aluminum. Toxic Sludge From Hungary Spill Hits Danube
- Gorey said a byproduct of the proposed plant will be a black, lava-like substance, which can be granulated for road-bed use or air blown for industrial insulation. Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant
- Our bodies depend on unabsorbed calcium to neutralize potentially harmful byproducts of digestion that can promote colon cancer and kidney stones.
- Organic livestock producers must not feed mammalian or poultry slaughter byproducts to mammals or poultry.
- In other words, the fissile material produced by these reactors is recycled at least twice until the final waste results in an actinide-free byproduct that has a half life of about 200 years. Think Progress » Demoralizing His Supporters, Obama Calls Nukes, Coal, And Oil Drilling ‘Clean Energy Jobs’
- But those bubbles, BP said, were nitrogen, a byproduct of the nitrified foam used in setting the well's surface casing cement, and are expected. Coast Guard, BP Find No Evidence of Leaking Well
- Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’.