New England's forestry industry is a potential source of cellulose fibres that could be incorporated into the ink instead of carbon fibres.
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The team did this by drawing the fibres out using an electric field applied between the print nozzle and the surface onto which the fibres were being printed.
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Zips, dyes and synthetic fibres are sourced from other continents.
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This is a matrix of carbon reinforced with carbon fibres.
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For example, a fleece sweater will release small plastic fibres.
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So it's not the knots, it's the fibres that thwart us.
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They release neurotransmitters that turn individual muscle fibres on and off.
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On their own, carbon fibres are brittle and can break easily.
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Dissolving wood pulp is the key raw material for Lenzing's fibres.
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Separating them out is difficult and mechanical methods of recycling degrade fibres.
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Light from the fibres is sent to one of ten identical spectrographs.
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Chopped carbon fibres can be made from manufacturing offcuts or recycled material.
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In still one more experiment, Dong made his itch-specific fibres fluorescent.
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The company added that the market for steel fibres for concrete reinforcement had become "much tougher" as its competitors moved their manufacturing activities to lower cost locations in Central Europe and sourced their fibres from low cost countries.
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It consists of wood fibres, including lignin, obtained from pulping and other operations.
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Under-fed sheep could also be a problem, given they produce weaker fibres.
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The electrical resistance of those fibres changes as they are placed under strain.
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In specialty fibres, however, the company said it expects a comparatively positive development.
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The 22020,22 optical fibres of which it is made can each be manipulated robotically.
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In this case, Dr Ingo and his colleagues reckon that those fibres were wool.
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That retains those fibres' mechanical strength and flexibility while protecting them from extreme temperatures.
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It disintegrates rapidly, after being flushed, into the fibres from which it is made.
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The nerve fibres that connect the brain's right and left hemispheres were barely recognizable.
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That would please Greens, because carbon fibres are usually made from oil-based materials.
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It's down to all those tiny pockets of air caught between the fibres, apparently.
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The fibres are mixed with oil-based polymers and other additives, such as colouring agents.
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Here, clothed in natural fibres, he is tracing something in the sand with a stick.
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A clump of acryllic fibres seen under a microscope at Plymouth University's Electron Microscopy Centre.
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Once carbonised, the fibres are wound onto bobbins, spun into yarns or formed into tapes.
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Companies are coming up with ways to recover the fibres, usually with heat or chemicals.
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The smart fibres are washable and the button circuit has a two-day battery life.
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In some tests, the addition of plant fibres has been shown to produce markedly stronger concrete.
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Loose fibres blow around the idle machines at UTEXRWA, a textiles and garment factory in Kigali.
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Giant, noisy warehouses produce insecticide-treated fibres which are woven into round and square blue bednets.
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Jaynes believed that the development of nerve fibres connecting the two hemispheres gradually integrated brain function.
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This is now being automated, aided by the fact that the optimal alignment of the fibres is often calculated using sophisticated computer-aided design systems, and the same data can program robots to lay-up the fibres or wind them on braiding machines such as Bertha.
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To keep them intact while damp, before and during use, their fibres are held together by resins.
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"However sugars, starches, and fibres are all carbohydrates that perform different roles in the body," Reynolds wrote.
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It does this by squeezing together layers of wood pulp that have had their fibres carefully arranged.
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To start with, a pilot plant will produce up to 500 tonnes of textile fibres a year.
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Pre-impregnated carbon fibres are a strong, light material used to make composite structures for the aviation industry.
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They have sent quantum-entangled messages through optical fibres, and also through the air, as packets of light.
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The country's garment-makers pay high duties to import the man-made fibres that now dominate the industry.
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A determined fraudster might be able to rearrange the pattern of fibres on a piece of paper's surface.
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This is done by impregnating the fibres with a chemically activated resin, which hardens when it is cured.
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Lenzing has a strong focus on sustainability with its fibres made of cellulose, a natural component of wood.
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Dr Yu suggests that optical fibres might provide an effective way of channelling light to the correct tube.
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Fabrics and wool fibres from the Max Mara archive, which staff designers are required to consult for color.
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The company has been developing techniques to embed carbon fibres in resin to create lightweight and strong materials.
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Optical fibres are made by pulling glass into strands which have a diameter similar to that of human hair.
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However, in the absence of stresses caused by gravity on the cooling material, much longer fibres could be drawn.
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One, weighing 330 micrograms (as millionths of a gram are known), consisted of a few fibres from the canvas.
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The idea is to shine a high-quality laser beam through one of the optical fibres in the cable.
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Though outside the body, these stem cells, shown in magenta, were able to generate nerve fibres, shown in green.
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The jiggling thus induced shifts the fibres around in a process that is, in effect, the opposite of combing.
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That could provide a cheaper and greener alternative to carbon fibres, which are usually made from oil-based polymers.
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The condition is almost always caused by neuropathy, an interruption in the transmission of painful sensation along nerve fibres.
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By exerting force on the proteins in the mixture, the ingredients lengthen into fibres and wind around one another.
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Cellink's ink is made from nanocellulose alginate, a biodegradable material containing wood fibres and a sugary polymer found in seaweed.
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INEOS is one of the largest producers of acrylonitrile, a toxic liquid used to make artificial fibres and other polymers.
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More pointed still is Christien Meindertsma's "Fibre Market", with woollen fibres from 1,000 discarded sweaters sorted into colour-coded piles.
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Paper made of plant fibres are easily destroyed by liquid, but the team has made this one with hydroxyapatite nanowires.
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All those machinations introduce a great deal of randomness to the arrangement of fibres within an individual piece of paper.
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The fibres are made by heating a precursor material to around 3,000°C in a protective atmosphere of inert gases.
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Her body ached from a condition called rhabdomyolysis, which results from the release of skeletal-muscle fibres into the bloodstream.
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That came about 20 years after IARC classified "talc containing asbestiform fibres" as "carcinogenic to humans," its highest-risk classification.
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Below that is a layer made of fibres of collagen, an elastic protein common in vertebrate skin, organised at random.
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In 2014-2015, average Bt cotton fibres from around the country were up to 2.29 mm shorter than the conventional strains.
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Clothes production including dyes and cotton farming uses 93 billion cubic metres of water annually, according to the Circular Fibres Initiative.
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Adding wood fibres, the company says, can reduce the amount of plastic needed to make goods with plastic parts by 60%.
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Like the decking of the satyr's ship, the wool then rotted away, leaving a cast of its fibres on the coin.
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So, the fibres need to be aligned in such a way to impart their strength by distributing loads throughout a structure.
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Lenzing specialises in fibres made from wood and pulp, meeting increasing demand from the fashion industry for alternative textiles to cotton.
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Physiologically, as we age, our faces lose fat, our elastin collagen fibres degrade and the bones of the face erode a bit.
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Sensors on the opposite edges (and thus the opposite ends of the optical fibres) measure how much of that light is received.
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These are composite materials that cannot be riveted in the way metal is because of the damage this causes to the fibres.
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The process will be programmed by choreographing the fibres to capture light from about 21m galaxies over the course of the survey.
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The fibres consist of carbonised polymers, made up of long strings of molecules bound together by the powerful bonds between carbon atoms.
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Instead of using resin to hold the fibres together, Dr Deng and his colleague have been experimenting with a technique called hydroentanglement.
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During their experiments, the researchers were able to illuminate the infected neurons of the mice using optical fibres implanted in their brains.
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At the center of the roll, paper fibres tend to arrange themselves in an orderly matrix; nearer the edges, they become jumbled.
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Strong demand for the company's Dyneema fibres in Europe, United States and higher selling prices kept the division's earnings stable, Sijbesma added.
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The beating had embedded bits of his dungarees into his skin, and it took the doctor two hours to remove the fibres.
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Monsanto's American Bt cotton produced short fibres, the kind typically used to make fabric for everyday use such as jeans and t-shirts.
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A lot of them say "cottony soft touch" but they can't use the words "cotton", "plant-based fibres" because they don't use them.
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By 2014, according to Mr Corera, the proportion of international data passing through American and British fibres had nearly halved from its peak.
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"[We] propose that dragline silk [features] may have evolved as a control mechanism for these multifunctional fibres," write the authors in their study.
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Sensors designed to measure physical strain—useful in monitoring wound healing—can be made by coating stretchy fibres with carbon nanotubes and silicone.
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Another useful property of some fibres is wicking, in which liquids travel along the fibre via a bit of physics called capillary action.
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The researchers recently used cellulose fibres and a resin made from maize to print a mould for constructing the roof of a boat.
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Lenzing produces part of its fibres in China's Nanjing, 500 kilometres (311 miles) from the city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak began.
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"What we discovered is that it's actually the connections between the sensory cells and the nerve fibres that go first," Liberman told me.
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Finally, he settled on an artificial fabric that he created himself out of fibres from recycled plastic water bottles, and he patented it.
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Any pressure applied to part of the mat causes a distortion in the fibres and a consequent change in the amount of light transmitted.
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The acquisitive company still has $2.5 billion of uncommitted capital for new projects in its other businesses, including olefin, fibres and feedstocks, Lohia said.
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Promising contenders include using bitumen to make carbon fibres for high-tech composites, vanadium for batteries and steel, and high-grade asphalt for roads.
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Yet all three are among the latest examples of employing natural fibres from plants as eco-friendly additives or alternatives to man-made materials.
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Field trials have shown that delicate quantum light signals can be sent through the same fibres that bring the internet to homes and businesses.
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This is done by placing the fibres, tapes or mats onto a mould in the required orientation, creating what is known as a preform.
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Sometimes the fibres can be re-spun, but if they are too short they can still be suitable for parts subject to less stress.
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In animal skins both the synthesis of the initial amino-acid chains and their subsequent winding into fibres are done by special cells called fibroblasts.
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The trick which the process pulls off is to coat the carbon fibres in the original material with the complex carbide created during the infusion.
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The toughest fibres are up to ten times stronger than steel and eight times more so than aluminium, reckons Zoltek, an American carbon-fibre producer.
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Some commercial basalt-fibre composites are already available, but the team think they can improve the performance of such fibres further, by adding other materials.
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Despite such remote habitats, Jamieson's team found plastic and synthetic fibres such as nylon, polyethylene, and polyvinyl alcohol in the guts of most amphipods they examined.
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The Burkinabes said they asked Monsanto to breed the Bt gene into their native cotton, so they could marry its pest resistance with their long fibres.
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Both firms say they have built apparatus to produce ZBLAN fibres that is small and light enough to send to, and operate in, the space station.
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A big bonus is that, because plants lock up carbon in their structure, using their fibres to make things should mean less carbon dioxide is emitted.
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They do that by squeezing the treated wood at around 100°C, which causes most of the pores and tubelike fibres within the wood to collapse.
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The paper allows special security features like a transparent Swiss cross and ultraviolet fibres to be incorporated into the notes to make them difficult to counterfeit.
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The company, which makes cellulose fibres used in textiles, said construction work for the plant 150 km (93.2 miles) east of Bangkok will start in autumn.
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Every time you wash your fleece jacket or other synthetic clothing, microscopic synthetic fibres are released and end up in our food supply and drinking water.
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It also makes fibres used in products like seat belts and tires and, to a smaller extent, olefins, feedstock for PET resin, under its upstream business.
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Further down the line Deakin's researchers are looking into making rebars out of basalt, an abundant volcanic rock, by melting it and extruding it into fibres.
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DSM, whose products range from food supplements to plastics, fibres and resins for paints, confirmed its outlook for adjusted EBITDA growth "towards" 25 percent in 2018.
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Seidler used the palm fibres like fettuccine, adding ribbons of llama jerky and a poached egg yolk to create a kind of Andean-Amazonian pasta carbonara.
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And it didn't taste all bad, either—after all, it was wholesome fibres and protein left over from a process which extracts sugars from cereals for fermentation.
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Indorama's main business is the production of PET resin, a polymer used to make plastic bottles and fibres used in products such as seat belts and tyres.
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To get rid of any dust that does nevertheless manage to accumulate, the material also has embedded within it a yarn made of conducting carbon-nanotube fibres.
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"With these fibres entering our food system and ending up on our plates, we are essentially eating polluted laundry," said co-founder Lauren Smith at the conference.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) happens when the body's immune system learns to attack its own nerve fibres in the same way that it learns to attack invading pathogens.
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Later, in New York, by means of another, more complex implant in his arm, Warwick connected the nerve fibres in his wrist and hand to a computer.
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AS THE DOTCOM boom was approaching its peak in 1999, Yi Li was working for JDS Uniphase, a Silicon Valley company that made lasers and optical fibres.
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He also planned projects to spin proteins into structural fibres, and to pursue a general methodology for stripping plant proteins of their off-colors and off-flavors.
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It is made of cellulose fibres embedded in a matrix of lignin, an organic polymer that serves a number of purposes, including providing woody plants with their rigidity.
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When the towers fell a cloud of dust, made up of glass fibres, asbestos, lead, pulverised cement and a host of other carcinogens, was spewed into the air.
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Deeper scrutiny and a broad shutdown of factories could disrupt supplies of crucial chemicals and other products used to make manmade fibres and plastics, potentially driving up prices.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian cellulose fibres producer Lenzing and Brazilian wood panels maker Duratex agreed to build a $1 billion dissolving wood pulp plant in Brazil, the companies said.
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Slater started his own clothing company, Outerknown, in 2015, making casual clothes that are fair trade, sustainably produced (including some fibres from recovered fishing nets), and not inexpensive.
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The result is a gelatinous red slab of plant meat that contains long, thick, elastic muscle-like fibres which look and flake apart like pulled pork or beef.
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They tottered past in the reading rooms, arms piled with leather-bound volumes, or sat hunched over handwritten documents, the pages yellowed by the acid in their fibres.
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Global demand is estimated at around 80,000 tonnes Germanium used in optic fibres for military equipment and in wide-angle camera lenses is another metal which stands out.
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However, tests conducted by INERA in 2006 and 22009 found that the new Burkinabe Bt fibres were between 2350 mm and 2000 mm shorter than the country's conventional cotton.
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The Circular Fibres Initiative reckons that if the fashion industry's circular economy fails to get going soon enough, fashion production will require 300 million tonnes of oil by 2050.
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Although the organic components of the bone have long since disappeared, the orientation of the bone tissue fibres, the spaces for marrow, blood vessels and bone cells remain intact.
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While wool has long been used by suit-makers, the surge in popularity is being driven by fitness and leisure clothing manufacturers looking for soft, durable and natural fibres.
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At a hip Rochester restaurant called Nosh, Viavattine held the menu up to the light to assess its "flocculation" (the degree to which its fibres had clumped infelicitously together).
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As nice as it would be to survive off cream cheese bagels and Doritos, the potassium, dietary fibres, and cornucopia of vitamins found in fruit are kinda useful too.
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Once the fibres are there, though, it is not too hard to persuade them to organise themselves into layers that are, to all intents and purposes, sheets of raw leather.
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Klatten and the carmakers were initially attracted to SGL by its carbon fibres, used in light-weight components for BMW electric vehicles as well as VW's Audi R8 sports cars.
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DSM, whose products range from vitamins and food supplements to plastics and fibres, said sales rose 3% to 2.28 billion euros, led by a 7% growth at its nutrition division.
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Best not to let the big muscle groups take over in classical training they must be tempered by the slow-twitch fibres to support the most natural leaps to conclusion.
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Connecting Broca's area with Wernicke's is a neural network: a thick, curving bundle of billions of nerve fibres, the arcuate fasciculus, which integrates the production and the comprehension of language.
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Do not flatten raw steak, he ordered, or this will "break the fibres, prompting the blood to separate from the flesh during cooking" and hence drain it of its glorious flavour.
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While some grime greats drifted into the pop space in the late 2000s, stitching fibres of dance music into singles primed to engage white audiences too, Ghetts swerved the crossover approach.
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These days, the boot's "uppers" are sometimes made of supple leather, providing a rare link to the old days, but most of the time we're talking man-made fibres worthy of NASA.
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DSM, whose products range from vitamins and food supplements to plastics and fibres, said sales increased 6 percent to 2.27 billion euros, led by an 8 percent growth in its nutrition division.
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It will have special fibres inside the hinges to prevent dust from entering, the hinges would even have dual stops, at 90° and 180° enabling stuff like Hands Free (Duo) Video Calling.
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It consists of long chains of amino-acids, the building blocks of all proteins, wound together in threesomes to form triple-helices that are then, in turn, wound together to make fibres.
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Coca-Cola told the BBC it had strict filtration methods, but acknowledged the ubiquity of plastics in the environment meant plastic fibres "may be found at minute levels even in highly treated products".
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Lee Ying-yuan, the environment minister, boasts that 16 of the 32 teams competing at this year's football World Cup in Russia sported shirts made in Taiwan from fibres derived from recycled plastic.
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They used these fibres to build cardiac scaffolds, then soaked the scaffolds in suspensions of the golden particles for an hour, during which period most of the particles attached themselves to the scaffolds.
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In combination with a microscope, an X-ray or a telescope, the photographs can look like pure abstraction: a series of stark, thorny forms turns out to be a photomicrograph of paper fibres.
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That will have left deposits of wood fibres and resins clinging to stones throughout the cathedral, and trial and error may be needed to determine the best way to clean them, Pepi said.
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When plastic products like Lego -- or pipettes, bottles or drinking straws -- do eventually break down, they stick around as small, almost invisible fragments called microplastics, which also come from cosmetics and clothing fibres.
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India's cotton production would be lower than last year's 36.5 million bales as weather was not conducive for the crop, said Chirag Patel, chief executive at Jaydeep Cotton Fibres Pvt Ltd, a leading exporter.
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BT will also have to make it easier for rivals to lay their own optical fibres along Openreach's vast network of telegraph poles and "ducts", the little tunnels that carry telecoms lines to homes.
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The group, which makes cellulose fibres that are derived from sustainable wood and pulp, said according to preliminary figures 2019 net profit fell to 114 million euros ($13 million) from 148 million in 2018.
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They might even carry current and signals to other fibres, treated to change colour in response, to produce fabrics that vary in hue and pattern—maybe to reflect, as detected by sensors, the wearer's mood.
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Materials-science researchers are finding that plant fibres can add durability and strength to substances already used in the construction of buildings and in goods that range from toys and furniture to cars and aircraft.
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In support of this theory, when he examined the statue in detail Dr Ingo found the imprints of woody fibres, possibly from decking it had been resting on, in the patina of the satyr's hair.
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Neurofilament light chain is a protein found in blood that provides structural support to nerve fibres in the brain, and increases may be associated with nerve cell damage, Roche said in a statement on Tuesday.
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To get the texture of their plant-based burgers and nuggets right, manufacturers use a process called extrusion, in which the mixture of ingredients is pushed through a small hole to create meat-like fibres.
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The case related to the illness and death of 14 workers at the Olivetti plant in the northern Italian town of Ivrea, close to Turin, who had worked in areas allegedly contaminated by asbestos fibres.
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One crucial trick Modern Meadow's bioengineers have mastered, though they are reluctant to talk about the details, is encouraging the chains spat out by the yeast to assemble themselves into fibres without the intervention of fibroblasts.
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Each bar contains a handful of electrodes designed to pick up the signals of motor units (the combination of a motor neuron, a cell that projects from the spinal cord, and the muscle fibres it controls).
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The company, which sources polymers and manufactures them into yarns, fibres and coated fabrics used in roofing, building and also automobiles, has been working to simplify its portfolio and structure while working to improve operational performance.
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Many involve lengthy operations, implanting electrodes in the subject's brain or harvesting tissue from nerve-dense parts of the body so there are sufficient nerve fibres in the region where the bionic device is being attached.
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What I used to do is go ice blocking, which is when you literally buy a block of ice, wet the top, throw a towel on it so the fibres stick, and slide down a hill.
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"Assuming that fiber market conditions remain at current levels, we expect a substantial earnings improvement this year," Chief Executive Stefan Doboczky, who is pushing the group to focus on high-margin special fibres, said on Tuesday.
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The company, which sources polymers and makes them into yarns, fibres and coated fabrics used in roofing, building and also automobiles, has been working to simplify its portfolio and structure while working to improve operational performance.
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Pisco buzz aside, maybe the good vibes have something to do with the catwalk of tropical plants ringing the walls of windows high above the seats, or the earthy colors and fibres seemingly sourced from nature.
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Imported fibres and dye chemicals represent only a small portion of raw materials used by the sector, Lukminto said, while companies also import cotton from Australia and the United States, where shipments have not been affected.
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To this end, as he and his colleagues explained recently in Nano Letters, they mixed albumin with a solution of beta-mercaptoethanol and trifluoroethanol, which softened the protein so that they could spin it into ribbonlike fibres.
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STOCKHOLM, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Swedish small-cap industrial firm Duroc said on Friday it was buying the far larger International Fibres Group from one of its largest owners by issuing new shares, sending Duroc shares sharply higher.
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I noticed that the fibres were a deep red, almost like raw tuna, and Spiegelman explained that this is a familiar property of slow-twitch muscle, the fat-burning, fatigue-resistant kind called upon during endurance training.
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They used a pair of robotic arms that extrude concrete mixed with polyethylene fibres to print precast sections which were then assembled into a 33-metre footbridge that spans a pond in an industrial park in Shanghai.
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"The fundamentals of the wood-based cellulosic fibre industry should stay favorable in the mid-term," Lenzing said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that it is investing to increase production of its specialty man-made fibres.
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BLANTYRE, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Malawi has become the latest country in southern African to relax laws against growing and selling cannabis, making it legal for use in the production of medicines and hemp fibres used in industry.
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A bright spot for the household division, which accounts for around a third of total revenues, was sales of enzymes for dishwasher detergents where recent launches include a product that targets oat fibres such as dried-in cereals.
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The materials - pre-impregnated carbon fibres known as "prepreg" - will be produced at a facility at Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates and will supply Boeing's 777X, the latest generation aircraft, the companies said in a statement.
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Dr Gardiner talks of using ductal concrete, which is reinforced with steel fibres that make it lighter than concrete reinforced with steel rods but just as strong, to build thin bridges that span rivers in a single bound.
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Indorama's longer-term strategy is "to increase the size of other polymers through packaging and fibres and when the scale is large enough, to go upstream" to build the firm's captive olefin demand, Lohia said in an interview.
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Burkina Faso's cotton producers had complained that increased levels of short fibres in their GM cotton had impacted its market value, and last April announced they were seeking 48.3 billion CFA francs ($78 million) in compensation from Monsanto.
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VIENNA, March 13 (Reuters) - Austrian fibres producer Lenzing on Thursday reported a 22% slump in 2019 profit due to a drop in prices and lower standard fibre volumes and said it expects its 2020 results to fall further.
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Lenzing is also expanding its production capacities for its Tencel fibres, saying its site in Alabama will be finished in the first quarter of 2019 and that it was considering potential sites for a further plant in Asia.
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In one test Dr Hu and Dr Li made a laminated sample by placing five sheets of the stuff on top of one another, each sheet having its fibres aligned at right-angles to those of the sheet below.
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Business in July at its Composites – Fibers & Materials (CFM) unit fell significantly below its expectations, SGL said, adding that it discovered "erroneous planning assumptions" in a large order for carbon fibres that go into rotor blades for wind energy.
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Low & Bonar, which sources polymers and makes them into yarns, fibres and coated fabrics used in roofing, building and also automobiles, said it expects revenue from continuing operations of 317 million pounds ($411.12 million) for the year ended Nov.
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The re-opening of one of China's biggest petrochemical plants will add to demand for raw materials like condensate, fuel oil and mixed xylenes and will come amid increasing global use of the mainly polyester fibres it will produce.
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Paul Mozdziak, poultry science professor and the guy leading the experiments, took satellite cells (similar to stem cells) from a small piece of turkey breast and manipulated them in a lab so that they multiplied to form muscle fibres.
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What is known, however, is that instead of ordering components that will be assembled into a new pair of trainers, the Speedfactory will instead make most of the parts itself from raw materials, such as plastics, fibres and other basic substances.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian fibres producer Lenzing plans to invest more than 23 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in expanding production in coming years, and in a first step will build a 400 million euro facility in Thailand, it said on Wednesday.
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He is now researching a third compound, and when I visited his lab he invited me to look through a microscope at a petri dish of sleek, round muscle fibres—a kind of mouse tartare—awaiting treatment with the chemical.
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This is done by dissolving cellulose, a natural polymer that is the main constituent of plants' cell walls, in chemicals like caustic soda and carbon disulphide and then turning the solution into soft filaments which can be spun into fibres.
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DSM, whose products range from vitamins and food supplements to plastics and fibres, predicted "high single digit" growth in core profits for the year, after first-quarter earnings beat analysts' expectations with a 14 percent rise to 424 million euros ($475.5 million).
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VIENNA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Austrian fibres producer Lenzing said on Tuesday its plant in China was currently working at 80% of capacity due to the spread of the coronavirus but added that uncertainty could lead to a forced shutdown at any time.
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One coin that the researchers studied came from a grave dug in what is now Tunisia but was then Carthaginian territory, in the 3rd century BC. Like the imprints on the satyr's hair, the coin's patina has preserved the shapes of some fibres.
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VIENNA, June 26 (Reuters) - Austrian fibres producer Lenzing plans to invest more than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in expanding production in coming years, and in a first step will build a 13 million euro facility in Thailand, it said on Wednesday.
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VIENNA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Cellulose textile maker Lenzing reported on Wednesday a 54 percent rise in core profit for the first half of the year to 195.1 million euros ($220.35 million) on largely steady production due to its increased focus on special fibres.
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When she was twenty, she received a cochlear implant—a surgically placed electronic device that transmits sound impulses from a microphone near the ear to electrodes in the cochlea, bypassing the eardrum and directly stimulating the hair cells and the auditory nerve fibres.
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Scientists had known for a long time that most hearing impairment involves damage to the synapses and nerve fibres to which hair cells are attached, but they had assumed that the nerve damage followed hair-cell loss, and was a consequence of it.
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Distillation and cracking also produce plenty of small molecules containing just two or three carbons; these form the basis for the petrochemical industry, which uses them either for their own properties or as the building blocks for all manner of plastics, fibres and pharmaceuticals.
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I also order a slightly less-basic Guppy Friend, a nylon bag you wash your clothes in, in order to prevent microfibre pollution (most of our clothes are made from synthetic materials, which shed synthetic fibres into the water—and eventually the ocean—when washed).
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The decision is in line with Lenzing's strategy of growing its specialty fibres business, the Austrian group said, adding it will hold 51 percent in a venture with Duratex that will operate the mill in the state of Minas Gerais, close to Sao Paulo.
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Metsä has also teamed up with Itochu, a Japanese trading company with a large clothing business, to make fabric that will compete with oil-based synthetic fibres and provide an alternative to cotton, the growing of which requires a lot of land, irrigation and pesticides.
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DE as> well as BMW shareholder Susanne Klatten and industrial group Voith, are mainly attracted by the future prospects of SGL's carbon fibres, used for instance in light-weight components for BMW electric vehicles and luxury sedans as well as Audi's R8 sports cars.
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In the second example, Filippos Tourlomousis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with a team at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in New Jersey, produced a scaffold from polymer fibres a mere hundredth of a millimetre wide—far smaller than most 3D printers can manage.
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DSM, whose products range from vitamins and dietary supplements to plastics and fibres, predicted "high single digit" growth in core profits for the year, after earnings beat analysts' expectations with a 14 percent rise to 424 million euros ($475.5 million) in the first three months of 13.
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Meanwhile, their waistlines ("the cross-sectional area," in scientific parlance) and their body-fat percentage shrank; their insulin resistance came down; and their muscle-composition ratio shifted toward so-called slow-twitch fibres, which tire slowly and burn fat, and which predominate in long-distance runners.
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Tons of raw cotton and linen are poured in at the top, along with water, and the sphere is heated and spun like a washing machine to break up the fibres, which are run through the paper-making machinery at another, slightly younger plant down the road.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: — Chinese chemicals company China National Bluestar (Group) Co. Ltd and Japanese fibres and chemicals company AKC to set up a joint venture (approved Aug.
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Atwater's numbers say that Tara Haelle can extract 8.9 calories per gram of fat in a plate of her favourite Tex-Mex refried beans; the modified table shows that, thanks to the indigestibility of some of the plant fibres in legumes, she only gets 8.3 calories per gram.
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Two composite materials are particularly pertinent to aircraft engines: for fan blades, carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics similar to those used in airframes; and for components that need to be heat-resistant, ceramic-matrix composites, in which both fibres and matrix are made of a material such as silicon carbide.
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Atwater's numbers say that Tara Haelle can extract 423 calories per gram of fat in a plate of her favourite Tex-Mex refried beans; the modified table shows that, thanks to the indigestibility of some of the plant fibres in legumes, she only gets 8.3 calories per gram.
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Atwater's numbers say that Tara Haelle can extract 8.9 calories per gram of fat in a plate of her favourite Tex-Mex refried beans; the modified table shows that, thanks to the indigestibility of some of the plant fibres in legumes, she only gets 0003 calories per gram.
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"From what I do know about certain forms of energy that are medically used to remove nerve fibres, such as to reduce pain, I can't understand how any source would be so selective to only injure the brain and not peripheral nerves and the spinal cord," he said.
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