pretreatment
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pretreatments
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Yet a significant amount of taxpayer funding for pretreatment promotion occurs at the state level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
This pretreatment and other, earlier cancer therapies, doctors note, may also raise the risk of subsequent cancers.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 28, 2023
Adriana Toro with Broward County Mosquito Control said the county has stepped up spraying for mosquitoes and is doing pretreatment on larvae.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
The tests are not satisfactory because pretreatment was not uniform and there is insufficient data on penalties which are omitted.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
The workshop covers basic seed physiology, seed viability, germination cues and pretreatments, sowing and aftercare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
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