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- verb Present participle of
degas .
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Examples
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When the earth was forming a process called degassing took place.
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The successful conclusion of the degassing venture and security guarantees, including an alarm system at the lake gateway, is attracting more farmers and cattle grazers.
Scientists Work to Prevent Cameroonian Lake from Exploding 2011
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The extraction of gas, or degassing of the mine, is required as a safety requirement for conducting mining operations as it could be lethal to workers.
Electrosteel, Dart Energy Form Joint Venture Eric Yep 2011
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Even if it turns out that rapid methane degassing isn't in the cards, you still do have to worry about those several trillion metric tons of near-surface carbon and how secure they are.
Nathan Currier: Methane in the Twilight Zone (First Episode) Nathan Currier 2012
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Keep in mind, you should never brew espresso with beans that have been resting less than 4-5 days from roast - the degassing process is incomplete, resulting in excess bloom (the gas foam that forms on freshly brewed coffee) that interferes with the espresso brewing process.
The Coffee Geek’s Guide To Storing Beans | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Dart Energy, a specialist degassing company, has operations in eight countries including India, China, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Electrosteel, Dart Energy Form Joint Venture Eric Yep 2011
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Furthermore, the latest science suggests that relatively little, if any, methane hydrate is currently degassing, amounting to at most 2 percent of global methane emissions, and much of that may not even be entering the atmosphere.
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Most of the degassing hydrate would be deep underwater, so the methane that's released can get dissolved in the water or chewed up by certain microbes before it reaches the surface.
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This “heavy” Kr cannot generate modern atmosphere through degassing followed by mass fractionation during atmosphere loss.
New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System | Universe Today 2010
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II - Statistical sampling, total degassing and transport mechanisms: Journal of Geophysical
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