Desiccation used in a sentence

Desiccation in a sentence as a noun

For those interested in this topic, it’s called desiccation.

Wax paper works perfectly well for protecting things from desiccation.

“In my ‘farmer’ hat, desiccation makes sense because it’s efficient,” he says. I can’t visualize the scope of a farm that big, so he spells it out for me: “Think of a farm 60 miles wide, and 100 miles long.”

So after reading the NIH study it looks like the compost toilets they tested were the desiccation kind. I don't really think those should be called compost toilets at all.

It may be called "mowing" or just "cutting hay"; it's definitely not chemical desiccation.

Powdered milk has the added costs of desiccation, whereas UHT is more/less fancy pasteurization.

Discussions here about practices like desiccation didn't hurt.

>We already established it is done for desiccation in certain climates. ...

The idea is that desiccation, if done badly can result in more glyphosate ending up in the grain. There is an idea floating around that glyphosate can affect gut bacteria in humans.

At least in Germany since 2015 desiccation with Glyphosat is strictly regulated and only allowed in rare circumstances. Not sure about EU global situation, tho.

It seems it's very difficult to maintain awareness of where your knowledge is accurate and where it isn't the more success you accumulate as a more passive desiccation maker than in the trenches problem solver.

I think the chances are close to zero - desiccation of the brain tissue destroys the proximal and distal dendrites and therefore the connections that represent our memories and consciousness. Freezing causes the water to expand and rupture the cell membranes, which also causes irreversible damage and information loss.

The NIH study shows that thermophilic composting is not the mechanism that breaks down bacteria in these toilets; bacterial load is lowered through desiccation, drying out. So - Jenkins does not understand how the composting works in his own product, he has not actually tested the bacterial load, and he is financially benefiting from people thinking his product is safe.

So even without desiccation, we're still "allowed" to ingest several orders of magnitude more probably-carcinogen-related herbicides which screw with our cells and gut microbiome.

Org/wiki/Viral_envelope which points out that the lipid bilayer stolen from the host cell "is relatively sensitive to desiccation, heat, and detergents, therefore these viruses are easier to sterilize than non-enveloped viruses, have limited survival outside host environments, and typically must transfer directly from host to host." And this isn't something that's going to change with mutations.

This comes up on HN like quarterly, so for anyone else who is always confused when it does: Both swathing and desiccation are primarily practices in the far north - Canada, the UK, and the Dakotas in the US. Neither practice is necessary or common for grain production in eg the Midwest or Central Plains in the US: the growing season is long enough for wheat to ripen and dry before harvest, and so it does. So if you're in the US, there's like an 80% chance that your flour was not produced in the way the article describes.