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residue

[rez-i-doo, -dyoo] / ˈrɛz ɪˌdu, -ˌdyu /


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But the company expects output to increase to more than 90% of capacity within weeks, once the Residue Catalytic Cracking Unit restarts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Residue tests were being carried out on the suspects’ fingers and clothing to try to determine in any of the people detained had handled flares, authorities said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Residue will also probably build up on soap and softener dispensers, so clean those, too.

From Washington Post • May 23, 2022

So it's like dialing out the lens a little bit and really trying to figure out how we got to the place that I wrote about in "The Residue Years."

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2019

Potash 0.616 1.250 Soda 0.317 0.285 ————- ————- 19.138 17.665 Residue.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various




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