Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Raw material or fuel required for an industrial process.
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- noun Any bulk
raw material constituting the principalinput for anindustrial process.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the raw material that is required for some industrial process
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Examples
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As they point out, ethanol has the nasty problems of being really expensive in terms of how much feedstock is needed to produce it, and of being really corrosive to the pipeline infrastructure we have in place already for gasoline.
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The decision by the chairman of the Alberta Energy Marketing Commission to deny equal status to Petrosar Canada, of Sarnia, to feedstock from the Province of Alberta constitutes just such a threat.
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But which hold the most promise for expanding the biodiesel industry's immediate and long-term feedstock needs?
Domestic Fuel Chuck 2010
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On your question relative to Saudi Arabia and feedstock for our ethylene cracker, I can tell you we do have a long-term feedstock arrangement that underpins that investment.
Chevron Q3 2010 Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha 2010
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But which hold the most promise for expanding the biodiesel industry's immediate and long-term feedstock needs?
Domestic Fuel 2010
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But which hold the most promise for expanding the biodiesel industry's immediate and long-term feedstock needs?
Domestic Fuel Chuck 2010
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But which hold the most promise for expanding the biodiesel industry's immediate and long-term feedstock needs?
Domestic Fuel 2010
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WET's business model includes the development of BCB coal upgrading facilities in 1,000,000 ton per annum modules at mine-site or other strategic locations, individually or by way of joint venture, incorporating long-term feedstock coal supply agreements with owners of significant low rank coal deposits.
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But the company’s method solves that problem because ethanol could be made locally from whatever feedstock is available, Tobey said.
Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, and Without Corn « Isegoria 2008
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This so-called feedstock is fed into centrifuges at another central site: the Natanz enrichment facility.
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