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- verb Present participle of
degerm .
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New in the range of fluorescent lamps are black-light lamps for special effects or detection of colour falsification in paintings, the baby-blue lamp for combatting jaundice with babies as well as the germicid lamp which is used for degerming the air.
5. Light Sources for Illuminating Purposes Frank Ponemunski 1991
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After degerming, the maize is unhusked, wetted, submitted to
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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That means initially degerming the cocoa beans or cocoa mass and then sterilizing the chocolate paste made from them.
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