rewetting

December 11th climate negotiators at the United Nations' meeting in Cancún, Mexico, agreed that peatland "rewetting", as it is rather inelegantly known, could be a way for some countries to offset emissions of carbon dioxide from other sources, under the Kyoto protocol or any agreement that follows it.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

Then, rewetting his fingertips, he sent out the next stack, and the next.

Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

One of the disadvantages to travelling for nearly two weeks...where the hell did I leave my rewetting drops?

madkestrel: Today in 1767, Samuel Wallis, an English madkestrel 2010

Then, rewetting his fingertips, he sent out the next stack, and the next.

Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

Then, rewetting his fingertips, he sent out the next stack, and the next.

Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

The model [184] generated realistic patterns of mass and energy flow (primary productivity, decomposition rates, and soil respiration) under present-day conditions and in response to warming, pollution, fertilization, drying/rewetting of soil, etc.

Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009

Place the hot towel over each muffin cup to warm it up, rewetting as necessary to reheat the towel.

Mini Key Lime Pies for Pi Day roopa 2008

Place the hot towel over each muffin cup to warm it up, rewetting as necessary to reheat the towel.

Archive 2008-03-01 roopa 2008

Also, it's a stretch to claim that a simple evaporation-rewetting cycle never could have occurred on the early earth, especially since it's not hard to find places where it happens regularly on the modern one.

A Minimal Genome 2006

And are you really allowed to carry knitting needles on a plane, when other people can't carry on a tiny bottle of contact lens rewetting drops?

Attracting the Mens vuboq 2006