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• The field-skim was one of the corporation's smaller ships--just under thirty meters--and was designed to fly close to the crop surface. —  Asimov's SF, July 2006
• My regular reading project is going to include actually listing the books I read and skim, along with writing mini-reviews. —  TulipGirl
• I love how easy I can read through this or just skim, and still come out with usable data. —  Jason Santa Maria: Articles
• What better way to do that than discontinuing the free distribution of a paper that most people just skim, anyway? —  The Economist: Correspondent's diary
• Boil for ten minutes, skim, and bottle when cold One great advantage in using honey vinegar is that, being quite free from sulphuric or nitric acid, it does not stain silver or table linen Footnote 1: C_2H_6O + O_2 = H_2O + C_2H_4O_2 Alcohol + Oxygen = Water + Acetic Acid The proportions of the chemical constituents of Acetic Acid are as follows:--Carbon 46ˇ83, Oxygen 46ˇ82, Hydrogen 6ˇ35 Footnote 2: It is frequently found to contain less, the acetic being often replaced by other and injurious acids Footnote 3: The process here described has reference only to the production of the vinegar in small quantities. —  The Production of Vinegar from Honey

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