vat
Example Sentences
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I'm peering into a large vat containing a perfectly clear liquid – a special kind of flame retardant for wood products.
From BBC
The real-estate investor took off her shoes, sanitized her feet and waded into a giant vat filled to the brim with juicy grapes.
Industrially, vats of genetically engineered E. coli act like living factories producing a variety of products from pharmaceuticals like insulin, vital for diabetes management, to various platform chemicals used to make fuels and solvents.
From BBC
The room itself is about the size of a football pitch, and home to row after row of huge metal vats within which chemical reactions force the different rare earths apart.
From BBC
“Well, you’d be hard to understand too if you drank two vats of coffee, two vats of wine and took 25 Vicodin a day.”
From Los Angeles Times
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