How To Use Desiccation In A Sentence
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This is exactly what we see going on during the great physical changes which are accomplished over large areas in Central Asia, owing to the desiccation which is going on there since the glacial period.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
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The abundance of Collembola declined at barren sites where higher temperatures also caused drought and mortality due to desiccation, whereas the abundance of Collembola increased at moister sites.
Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
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We observed an abrupt acquisition of desiccation resistance during Ae. aegypti embryogenesis associated with serosal cuticle secretion, occurring at complete germ band extension, between 11 and 13 hours after egglaying.
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Patterns In Mars Crater Floors Give Picture Of Drying Lakes (Sep. 16, 2009) - 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 ... > read more
Undefined
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That way, there's no need for brining or protective aluminum-foil tents or arduous tricks with special tools for flipping the bird in the oven to keep its edematous poitrine from desiccation.
Cold Turkey
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The solvent was removed by rotary evaporation followed by desiccation under vacuum.
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The areas along fault planes were subjected to a shearing action that produced a pattern of fracturing that is different from the desiccation cracking of a normal septarian concretion.
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According to the literature1, 2, some species of crayfishes spend most of their lives in burrows, while others burrow for various reasons, for example to escape desiccation during times of drought or to move below the frost line during winter.
Crayfish chimney
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The ‘lock-and-key’ fit of homing limpets may have more to do with resistance to dislodgment than with desiccation.
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Drying rates also affect the desiccation tolerance of somatic embryos and immature zygotic embryos or seeds.
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Indeed, in order to develop properly, brine shrimp eggs have to undergo a period of desiccation.
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Results so far show that some microbes can indeed withstand the radiation, desiccation, and cold of space.
First Contact
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The addition of alcohol to the bichromate bath — sometimes recommended to harden the film and allow it to stand a higher temperature, and to hasten the desiccation of the tissue — is objectionable, for the spirits tend to reduce the bichromate, which is transformed into the green salt, and, therefore, a partial or complete insolubilization of the gelatine is the result.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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The more leisurable process of desiccation, by which, under modern storage, the components of a modern novel are released to fresh unions and activities admits, as Sir Thomas Browne would say, a wide solution, and was just the question to tease that good man.
XI. Of Selection
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The dramatic desiccation of North Africa is a perplexing phenomenon.
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Increased desiccation is indicated by post-3 Ma evaporite precipitation in topographic lows above Pliocene strata and development of a saline crust throughout the Peru-Chile Desert.
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The rdar and the bdar strains were found to be equally tolerant to disinfectants, while the rdar strain was found to be more tolerant to long-term desiccation and nutrient depletion in biofilm than the bdar strain.
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Not the kind of oozing rot one might find in the depths of some leafy jungle or in a fetid swamp but rather a peculiar kind of desiccation that bordered on fossilisation as if all moisture had been sucked from the sea.
Beneath an opal moon
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Mites are more resistant than Collembola to summer desiccation [41] and to anoxic conditions in winter due to ice-crust formation following episodes of mild weather [42].
Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
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The red mudstone horizons preserve extensive pedogenic textures and desiccation cracks indicative of mature palaeosol development.
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The same note of emotional catharsis was sounded by the Romantic poets in general, after the desiccation of late neoclassicism.
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The most commonly employed treatments involve destroying the affected tissue by freezing, burning, curetting (usually with electrodesiccation), or applying topical acids.
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Isolation by desiccation would also explain why dicynodonts - mammallike reptiles that dominate fossil assemblages elsewhere during this time - are conspicuously absent at the site that yielded the two new amphibians.
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Vegetative tissues which are able to survive desiccation to an air-dry state have mechanisms that cope with this potentially lethal mechanical stress.
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Desiccation survival of the eggs of the rotifer Adineta vaga (Davis, 1873).
We are going to freeze dry you all!
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An additional factor involved in desiccation tolerance is the dynamic behaviour of cell structures during dehydration.
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Cross-bedding, channel-fill structures, red colouration, carbonaceous material, desiccation cracks and raindrop pits indicate that these rocks were deposited in a terrestrial environment.
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The serosal cuticle (SC) contributes to mosquito egg desiccation resistance, but the kinetics of SC secretion during embryogenesis is unknown.
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The unit contains abundant evidence of subaerial exposure, including caliche crusts, desiccation cracks and vadose cements.
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When the low water - cement ratio gets off, concrete self - desiccation shrinkage produces easily.
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In this way the timbers will be protected from repeated desiccation and expansion, potentially a grave danger to such ancient wood.
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This study investigated whether seasonal metabolic changes that produce putative protectants for drought and desiccation such as complex carbohydrates and dehydrins may also be involved in summer dormancy.
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These units contain intercalated thin, discontinuous lenses of silts and mudstones, some displaying desiccation cracks.
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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.
Impact Lab
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The addition of alcohol to the bichromate bath — sometimes recommended to harden the film and allow it to stand a higher temperature, and to hasten the desiccation of the tissue — is objectionable, for the spirits tend to reduce the bichromate, which is transformed into the green salt, and, therefore, a partial or complete insolubilization of the gelatine is the result.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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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.
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The remains of Pleistocene mammals in Alaska and Siberia have been discovered in permafrost, which resulted in the body tissue being preserved through desiccation-induced mummification.
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Harry turned to leave, feeling as if the desiccation process had already begun.
WALL GAMES
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Thus, it is possible that anhydrobiosis is a widespread phenomenon but that has been observed only in a few species that naturally undergo desiccation.
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The sediments from Dunure are frequently rippled and show examples of dewatering structures, desiccation cracks and foam marks.
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Smaller fluvial or subaqueous overprints of former submarine channel morphologies and even desiccation or fracturing may be sought to test our model.
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I think it is due to their forereaching science, which assures them that this world has entered upon the last stage of its existence which began with the arrest of its axial rotation, and which will end with the total extinction of life through the evaporation of all the waters under the never-setting sun, and the consequent complete desiccation of this now so beautiful land.
A Columbus of Space
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The authors base this claim on the well known fact several groups of multicellular animals, for example, bdelloid rotifers, tardigrades, nematodes and arthropods, have representatives that can survive extreme desiccation for long periods.
We are going to freeze dry you all!
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The film block design utilize special mixed desiccation to get off water and acid.
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Samples of clay from the auger holes were tested for moisture content but did not indicate any exceptional level of desiccation.
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The water bubbler humidified the air to minimize desiccation.
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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.
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The embryo matures and the seed accumulates storage products, acquires desiccation tolerance, and loses water.
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The dramatic desiccation of North Africa is a perplexing phenomenon.
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Throughout the whole study, seed desiccation tolerance was quantified both in terms of water content and water activity.
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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
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Di- and oligosaccharides are replaced by monosaccharides, while dehydrins and other desiccation-related proteins disappear.
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It was thought that this behavior was an adaptation for desiccation resistance analogous to the closed shells of bivalves.
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To prevent the entire desiccation of the gelatine, which is the cause of the defect above alluded to, it is advisable to add glycerine to the washing water after the image is cleared.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period.
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These sugars, normally associated with the seed desiccation process, apparently are not involved in the WD responses of lupin vegetative tissues.
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But, if the bone be too hard, if the prize suspended be a Mole, an adult Mouse or a Sparrow, the wire ligament opposes an insurmountable obstacle to the attempts of the Necrophori, who, for nearly a week, work at the hanging body, partly stripping it of fur or feather and dishevelling it until it forms a lamentable object, and at last abandon it when desiccation sets in.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
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The waxy epicuticle protects against desiccation.
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It has long been suggested that insects close the spiracles to prevent desiccation, minimizing water loss but exposing themselves to hypoxic stress.
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The embryo enters a quiescent stage, accumulates storage compounds and acquires desiccation tolerance.
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Indeed, in order to develop properly, brine shrimp eggs have to undergo a period of desiccation.
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The major modalities in electrosurgery are electrodesiccation, fulguration, electrocoagulation, and electrosection.
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Commonly used treatments include excisional surgery, Mohs' surgery, radiation therapy, cryosurgery, curettage and electrodesiccation.
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Tortula ruralis is an important model system for the study of plant vegetative desiccation tolerance.
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Maple and poplar, for example, are susceptible to sun scald and desiccation by wind; oaks usually aren't.
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Most benign skin lesions can be treated successfully with any of several treatment modalities (excision, cryosurgery, electrodesiccation curettage).
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Lastly, I must not omit that meeting of the parts of bodies which is the chief cause of induration and desiccation.
The New Organon
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This book should be found on the shelves of all those who are researching into or are interested in plant desiccation.
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The dramatic desiccation of North Africa is a perplexing phenomenon.