maceration

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The residues are sorted, ground and mixed with a maceration of gum arabic to facilitate ignition, and with clay to slow combustion.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

The "maceration" of the sewage that was being pumped out along the outfall pipe was, they said, not treatment, and it would be washed back in to Scarborough's bays.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2022

People throw around phrases like "carbonic maceration" and "Ella, that's not a sample."

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2022

The book covers, in some 1,150 entries across 834 pages, nearly every aspect of its subject matter, from absinthe spoons to maceration to the Zombie.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2021

It is lined by an extremely thin pouch of cuticle, which, when withdrawn, after maceration, preserves the form of the canal.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin