granule
Example Sentences
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The tools were tested for tiny starch granules left behind when plants were processed for food.
From Science Daily
Ventura Foods said it issued the recall after one of its ingredient suppliers recalled a batch of onion granules that the company had used n some of its dressings.
From Los Angeles Times
Machines strip the insulation material off the copper, then use blades to chop and shred it into granules a few millimeters long, sometimes known as ‘copper chops.’
Developed by the Lumière brothers, the miraculous process involved a glass plate dusted with potato-starch granules, microscopic in size, dyed red-orange, green and blue-violet.
Subjects took a sachet of granules once a day for three days.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.