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  • noun liquid, containing dissolved and dispersed solids, that is a byproduct of alcoholic fermentation, and is used as a source of dietary protein

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Examples

  • These "solubles" have as many quirks of meaning as quarks have of charm, color, flavor, strangeness, ups-and-downs in physics.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1 1987

  • This is the scatologic material he used in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and his method was a deliberate melding of "solubles" into a fakesimilar of the originals.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1 1987

  • I have never worked with water solubles before, they always sounded so complicated.

    MK's Creative Musings Mary K. McGraw 2008

  • Al tratarse de sales de un ácido débil los bicarbonatos solubles tienen carácter básico.

    When Necessity is the Mother of Invention 2006

  • My daughter is learning about solubles and solutions in science, and what she's learning there dovetails with what I want to teach her about how girls and women can experience themselves.

    Joyce McFadden: How to Address Body Image and the Family Cat 2008

  • If it wasn't so, animal nutritionists wouldn't provide a suggested maximum content of the total animal ration of 40% of distiller's dried grains (DDG) and distiller's dried grains and solubles (DDGS) within the diet.

    The Next Enron; Ethanol Subsidies 2007

  • Fish solubles are reported to improve growth in monogastrics but the specific mechanism does not appear to be known.

    Chapter 9 1988

  • The total solubles must be determined by the evaporation of a measured quantity of the solution previously filtered till optically clear, both by reflected and transmitted light.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

  • Any remaining solubles in the material must be neglected or reported separately as "difficultly soluble" substances.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

  • During "tannage," bakelite is formed in the liquid, and practically all solubles originally present are deposited.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

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