pretreatment
Americannoun
plural
pretreatmentsExample Sentences
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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
The pretreatment seemed to desensitize the animals to the hormone’s effects later on.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 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
But when they had all that rain that came right before the snow, it would have washed away any kind of pretreatment that was on there anyway.
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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