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  • noun Plural form of concentrate.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concentrate.

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Examples

  • ˜concentrates™ on either the outcome ˜up™ or the outcome ˜down™ (i.e., the peak of the wave function that corresponds to this state concentrates on one of these positions), it also has ˜tails™ that go everywhere: The state of the L-apparatus is a superposition of an infinite number of different positions.

    Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics Berkovitz, Joseph 2007

  • A mine and a mill for making concentrates is being opened up at Wilberforce, in the County of Haliburton, which we hope will swing into operation within the next thirty days.

    Ontario's Mining Industry and Its Outlook for 1932 1932

  • The necessity for giving grain feed containing high percentage of digestible matter (known as concentrates) to dairy cows is based on the inability of the cow to consume and digest enough coarse fodders to result in maximum production, even though the fodders should be in balance as to their constituents.

    Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.

  • They also introduced a new plastic can for its line of frozen concentrates, which is the first innovation in the supermarket freezer isle since the peel strip in 1979.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Another major concern associated with desalination plants is that in the process of removing salts from the water supply, the plants produce a brine with high salt and mineral concentrates, which is difficult and expensive to dispose of, he said.

    Top Story 2009

  • Another major concern associated with desalination plants is that in the process of removing salts from the water supply, the plants produce a brine with high salt and mineral concentrates, which is difficult and expensive to dispose of, he said.

    Top Story 2009

  • When things are going bad and your whole survival is at stake, it kind of concentrates your mind, you make better decisions.

    Remarks By President To African American Religious Leaders ITY National Archives 2000

  • The resulting "concentrates" are washed off from time to time and reserved for secondary treatment.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • Where partially treated products, such as concentrates, are to be sold, not only will there be further losses, but deductions will be made by the smelter for deleterious metals and other charges.

    Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919

  • A charge used on the Randt for roasted "concentrates" (which we may roughly speak of as quartz and ferric oxide), is one assay ton (about 30 grams) each of ore, soda, and borax, and one and a half assay ton of litharge and 2 grams of charcoal.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

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