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  • 41comminution — noun see comminute …

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  • 42Iron ore — Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in colour from dark grey, bright yellow, deep purple, to rusty red. The iron itself is usually found in the …

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  • 43Joseph Aspdin — (December? 1778 – 20 March 1855) was a British cement manufacturer who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21 October 1824.Joseph Aspdin (or Aspden) was the eldest of the six children of Thomas Aspdin, a bricklayer living in the Hunslet… …

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  • 44Space weathering — is a blanket term used for a number of processes that act on any body exposed to the harsh space environment. Airless bodies (including the Moon, Mercury, the asteroids, comets, and some of the moons of other planets) incur many weathering… …

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  • 45Human vestigiality — In the context of human evolution, human vestigiality involves those characters (such as organs or behaviors) occurring in the human species that are considered vestigial in other words having lost all or most of their original function through… …

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  • 46Roman technology — is the engineering practice which supported Roman civilization and made the expansion of Roman commerce and Roman military possible over nearly a thousand years. The Roman Empire had the most advanced set of technology of their time, some of… …

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  • 47comminution — See comminute. * * * …

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  • 48mei- — I. mei 1 To change, go, move; with derivatives referring to the exchange of goods and services within a society as regulated by custom or law. Derivatives include mad, molt, mutate, mistake, communism, amoeba, and migrate. 1 …

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  • 49comminutor — /kom euh nooh teuhr, nyooh /, n. a machine that pulverizes solids, as in waste treatment. [COMMINUTE + OR2] * * * …

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  • 50grind — grindable, adj. grindability, n. grindingly, adv. /gruynd/, v., ground or (Rare) grinded; grinding; n. v.t. 1. to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens. 2. to reduce to fine particles, as by pounding or crushing; …

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