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pretreatment

American  
[pree-treet-muhnt] / priˈtrit mənt /

noun

  • pretreatments
    plural
  1. a preliminary course of treatment; the application of a process, substance, etc., beforehand.


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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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