dinner plate
Americannoun
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Pharmaceutical scientist Associate Professor Kamal Dua of the University of Technology Sydney estimates that adults consume about 250 grams of microplastics each year, roughly the amount needed to cover a dinner plate.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
But a first-class dinner plate is made of more delicate china.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2024
These cores, as wide as a dinner plate, yielded hundreds of samples of ancient air—including the first ever from the Pliocene, which ended about 2.6 million years ago with the start of the ice ages.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 21, 2024
The Kumasaka family and other local Japanese American farmers also connected Seattleites to produce at a time when vegetables were an afterthought on the American dinner plate, Gupta said.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2023
He saw a receding wash of gray and blue fading in a haze toward the setting sun, like something oriental on a dinner plate.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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