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  • noun Plural form of additive.

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Examples

  • Though, according to this summary of an industry market analysis, the use of additives is only predicted to increase over the next few years:

    duh pookie 2009

  • Though, according to this summary of an industry market analysis, the use of additives is only predicted to increase over the next few years:

    duh pookie 2009

  • But they do it mostly for the same reason that my mother refuses to believe that certain additives will cause cancer:

    Public nuisance #1: Importing your contacts | FactoryCity 2007

  • Items that are certified organic are normally a result of organic farming in which the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, plant growth regulators and feeding livestock additives is strictly prohibited.?

    The Organic Solution 2007

  • But finding foods that were made without dairy, wheat, or certain additives were a challenge.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Steve Carper 2006

  • But finding foods that were made without dairy, wheat, or certain additives were a challenge.

    Patricia Wheway: Creator of "Free From" Foods Steve Carper 2006

  • But, if that nicotine attracts users to untold number of industrial tobacco pesticide residues, radiation from certain fertilizers, and any of about 1400 untested and often toxic/carcinogenic non-tobacco additives, that is an different matter.

    Should Obama Sign Tobacco Bill? 2009

  • Mud is a wet, plastic soil mixture, with or without additives, which is used to make mud bricks (adobe) or monolithic mud walls.

    Chapter 4 1988

  • Bosch and his collaborators found the solution by using pure iron with certain additives.

    Carl Bosch - Biography 1966

  • During this processing, some substances and chemicals, known as additives, are added to the food.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2009

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