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  • Capable of being extracted.

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  • adjective Capable of being extracted.

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  • adjective Capable of being extracted

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  • adjective capable of being extracted

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Examples

  • With Eadie we have found that the free glucose extractable from the muscles by warm alcohol is reduced following the injecting of insulin, but we know nothing of the fate of the glucose which disappears.

    John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Here's a more specific example: according to the report, the extractable value of Cameroon's tropical forests, on the order of $700 per hectare per year (for timber, fuelwood and non-timber products), is less than the forests 'climate and flood benefits, which add up to about $900-$2,300 per hectare per year.

    Bill Chameides: The Invi$ibility of Nature: Green on Green Bill Chameides 2010

  • Even if every last drip of every last barrel of that recoverable oil resource were extractable and not even the Murkowski-commissioned report is arguing it is, it would run out in about 20 years at current consumption rates.

    Bill Chameides: How Much Black Gold Is in Them Thar Hills? Bill Chameides 2011

  • Here's a more specific example: according to the report, the extractable value of Cameroon's tropical forests, on the order of $700 per hectare per year (for timber, fuelwood and non-timber products), is less than the forests 'climate and flood benefits, which add up to about $900-$2,300 per hectare per year.

    Bill Chameides: The Invi$ibility of Nature: Green on Green Bill Chameides 2010

  • His characters have neither proper names nor social background and there is no easily extractable message.

    I Am the Wind | Michael Billington 2011

  • Here's a more specific example: according to the report, the extractable value of Cameroon's tropical forests, on the order of $700 per hectare per year (for timber, fuelwood and non-timber products), is less than the forests 'climate and flood benefits, which add up to about $900-$2,300 per hectare per year.

    Bill Chameides: The Invi$ibility of Nature: Green on Green Bill Chameides 2010

  • “Knowing the potential for extractable resources from this tremendous oil accumulation, and others like it, is critical to our understanding of the global petroleum potential and informing policy and decision makers,” said USGS Energy Resources Program Coordinator Brenda Pierce.

    Think Progress » Ed Schultz Tells Robert Gibbs He’s ‘Full Of Sh*t’ And ‘You’re Losing Your Base’ 2010

  • Here's a more specific example: according to the report, the extractable value of Cameroon's tropical forests, on the order of $700 per hectare per year (for timber, fuelwood and non-timber products), is less than the forests 'climate and flood benefits, which add up to about $900-$2,300 per hectare per year.

    Bill Chameides: The Invi$ibility of Nature: Green on Green Bill Chameides 2010

  • Countries with abundant, extractable, nonrenewable resources such as oil and gas too often are dependent on that single economic sector.

    How Iraq can build a robust economy 2011

  • Here's a more specific example: according to the report, the extractable value of Cameroon's tropical forests, on the order of $700 per hectare per year (for timber, fuelwood and non-timber products), is less than the forests 'climate and flood benefits, which add up to about $900-$2,300 per hectare per year.

    Bill Chameides: The Invi$ibility of Nature: Green on Green Bill Chameides 2010

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