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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The weight of organic solids burned off when dry material is "ignited"; this is a handy property of organic matter to know, since VS can be considered as the amount of solids actually co nverted by the bacteria(Energy primer, p. 142). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | As applied to chemical analyses, the loss in weight that results from heating a sample of material to a high temperature, after preliminary drying at a temperature just above the boiling point of water. The loss in weight upon drying is called free moisture; that which occurs above theboiling point of water, loss on ignition. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LOSS ON IGNITION |
| Specialty definitions using "LOSS ON IGNITION": Santorin earth. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "LOSS ON IGNITION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gloedetab (loss by combustion, volatile solids), glødetab (loss by combustion, volatile solids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gloeiverlies (loss by combustion, volatile solids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hehkutushäviö (loss by combustion, volatile solids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | taux de matières organiques (loss by combustion), perte au rouge (loss by combustion), perte au feu (loss by combustion), M.O. (loss by combustion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | organischer Feststoffgehalt (loss by combustion, volatile solids), Gluehverlust (loss by combustion, volatile solids), Glühverlust (loss by combustion, volatile solids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solidi volatili (loss by combustion, volatile solids), S.V. (loss by combustion, verbal phrase, volatile solids), perdita di ignizione (loss by combustion, volatile solids), perdita di combustione (loss by combustion, volatile solids), perdita all'ignizione (loss by combustion, volatile solids), perdita alla combustione (loss by combustion, volatile solids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osslay onay ignitionay sólidos voláteis (loss by combustion, volatile solids). (various references) sólidos volátiles (loss by combustion, volatile solids), pérdidas por calcinación (loss by combustion, volatile solids), pérdidas al fuego (loss by combustion, volatile solids). (various references) glödgningsförlust (loss by combustion, volatile solids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-i-l-n-n-n-o-o-o-s-s-t" | |
-4 letters: sinologist. | |
-5 letters: ignitions, inositols, insisting, lionising, oologists. | |
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