purity
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Once refined to improve its purity, the extracted gold is used to make jewellery for the Royal Mint's "886" brand, which refers to the date the institution was founded.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
And so in “Drive,” it was the purity of love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
By common understanding, uranium must be enriched to a level of 20 percent purity to be deemed “highly enriched” and 90 percent to be “weapons-grade.”
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Low-enriched uranium - typically 3-5% purity - is enough to produce reactor fuel required for a nuclear power station, but weapons-grade uranium needs to be at least 90% enriched.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Bunny, through no impulse toward Hellenic purity but simply out of mean-spiritedness, championed this view.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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But there are heroes, too, who remind us of our own potential for villainy, impure mirrors who reflect back at us the false purities we hide.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2018
And Gorky was far from alone in his scorn, as painting raced toward the purities of Abstract Expressionism.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015
As soon as you start to demand metals at higher purities then the costs soar.
From Forbes ● Aug. 19, 2013
But seabed explorers have found purities of 10 percent and higher — turning the obscure deposits into potential bonanzas.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2012
Agents are these events, these ecstasies, And tribulations, to prove the purities Or poor oblivions that are our being.
From Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater
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