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  • verb Present participle of granulate.

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Examples

  • The three-man troupe, best known for boiling down the bard and granulating the great books, has now condensed 197 of what they consider Hollywood's best into a stage show that runs under two hours.

    'Completely Hollywood': 197 Films, Abridged 2010

  • ‘Bin 2 Bin’ closed loop recycling involves shredding and granulating wheeled bins and boxes, melting and mixing granulate with additives and colours ready for processing into new bins and boxes.

    Recycling service for wheeled bins and kerbside boxes offers revenue stream for local authorities Thatsnews 2008

  • ‘Bin 2 Bin’ closed loop recycling involves shredding and granulating wheeled bins and boxes, melting and mixing granulate with additives and colours ready for processing into new bins and boxes.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • He meanwhile succeeded in producing more and better gunpowder by increasing the supply and ensuring the purity of the constituents — saltpeter (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and charcoal — as well as by improving the methods of granulating the powder.

    Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent 2007

  • Dr Johnson talked of the proportions of charcoal and salt-petre in making gunpowder, of granulating it, and of giving it a gloss.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • The small granulating surface soon healed, and at present a linear cicatrix alone tells of the injury he has sustained, while his thumb has all its movements and his hand a fine grasp.

    On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery 2005

  • The small granulating surface soon healed, and at present a linear cicatrix alone tells of the injury he has sustained, while his thumb has all its movements and his hand a fine grasp.

    On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery 2005

  • · Act gently not to remove the granulating epidermis.

    Chapter 15 1993

  • Patch grafting is a simple technique and can also be used for treating tropical ulcers once the base is clean and granulating.

    Chapter 15 1993

  • There are some aspects of the process which are worth discussing in detail, as they are problems that have come up in our experience and that are not discussed in available books. granulating

    5. Semidry foaming 1991

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