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thawing

[′thȯ·iŋ]
(engineering)
Warming dynamite, to reduce risk of premature explosion.
(mining engineering)
Working permanently frozen ground by pumping water at a temperature of from 50 to 60°F (10 to 15.5°C) through pipes down into the frozen gravel.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Cook without thawing. It is safe to cook foods from a frozen state--but obviously your cooking time will be longer (count on about 50% longer).
The researchers found the release of greenhouse gases beneath thermokarst lakes is relatively rapid, with deep thawing taking place over the course of decades.
The results of the "hand thawing" study show that the viability of the cells remains essentially the same for at least 30 minutes at room temperature.
Dr Herrid says his protocol differs from all other methods of vitrification because sucrose, used in the thawing process for other species, has proven toxic to camel embryos and has therefore been replaced with other sugars.
The aim of this work is to evaluate the freezing and thawing durability of concrete made with locally available Class F fly ash.
Cell thawing is the final and least controlled part of the cryochain.
Figures 3(a) and 3(b) show the changes of the dynamic elastic modulus and mass of the specimen after freezing and thawing in sodium chloride solution, respectively.
To further investigate the effect of process parameters and electrode configuration for optimizing and improving the thawing efficiency in high-voltage electric field system, we studied the thawing characteristic of frozen tofu.
The vacuum-packaged samples were randomly assigned to four different combinations of aging/freezing/thawing treatments as follows; aging at 2[degrees]C for 3 wk (A3, never-frozen control), freezing at -28[degrees]C for 2 wk then thawing (F2, frozen/thawed-only), aging at 2[degrees]C for 3 wk, freezing at -28[degrees]C for 2 wk then thawing (A3F2), and freezing at -28[degrees]C for 2 wk, then thaw/aging at 2[degrees]C for 3 wk (F2A3).
In the thawing phase, the ice turns into water, which then migrates inside the rock, causing dissolution of minerals between internal pores.
Taking the sub-grade modified soil as the research object, using the constitutive theory of concrete damage, combining the actual mechanical properties of lime modified soil and cement modified soil, this paper makes a research on the its damage evolution law under the condition of freeze thawing and load coupling.
This approach is essentially universal, and just as common is the anecdotal knowledge passed on to each new member of the laboratory staff that repeated cycles of thawing and re-freezing nucleic acid samples leads to sample degradation.
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