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more dilute
adjective as in thinned, weakened
Example Sentences
Legal until 1972, this offshore dumping largely escaped public scrutiny because it was overshadowed by Montrose's other waste disposal practice: Pumping a more dilute acidic slurry that also contained DDT through L.A.
With more dilute food, the flamingos can only harvest approximately 50% of what they need to eat every day, the team calculates.
They observed that more dilute conditions made the crustaceans and snail breathe harder, increasing their metabolism, while insects' metabolic rates were constant regardless of salinity.
Most sap-sucking insects drill into a nutrient-dense plant tissue called phloem, but spittlebugs specialize in the much more dilute sap from another tissue, xylem.
The tests were able to detect more dilute solutions of delta samples than omicron samples, suggesting that the tests may be less sensitive to the new variant, Tromberg said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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