pretreatment
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A sustainable alternative could be lightweight, cellulose aerogels, but current methods to produce them from wastepaper require several chemical pretreatment steps.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2023
Hinkle said the company had fully activated its winter storm program and coordinated with the Texas Department of Transportation on best practices, and he noted the pretreatment of the road two days before.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2023
Beyond the disruption, SpaceX also outlined other major additions to its plans, including the creation of a natural gas pretreatment plant, used to purify methane to be used in the Starship rocket.
From The Verge • Jun. 13, 2022
If we can’t put pretreatment on the road to better enable plowing, is there some other way of dealing with that kind of problem?
From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2022
The pretreatment week was also the time at which I felt most able to venture out of the house, and would accompany my aunt or my sister-in-law on small shopping sprees during the day.
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann
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