(n.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap.
(v. t.) To manure with compost.
(v. t.) To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.
Example Sentences:
(1) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(2) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
(3) To give a plant a good start, sow the seed into fine compost – this is usually called seed compost and is available at garden centres.
(4) There are numerous sustainable options, including packing materials made from corn starch or sorghum , which can be composted .
(5) At most sampling points, coliform bacteria declined to low or undetectable numbers early in the composting period.
(6) Dairy waste solids in each compost pile were heated into the thermophilic temperature range and generally composted well.
(7) It was concluded that the active indigenous flora of compost establishes a homeostatic barrier to colonization by salmonellae, and in the absence of competing flora, reinoculated salmonellae may grow to potentially hazardous densities.
(8) Studies have shown that more natural soil amendments, like compost, manure and charcoal products, like those produced by the Biochar Company , can reduce atmospheric carbon and keep soils highly productive.
(9) Findings of this study suggest that composting offers little benefit toward net reduction in coliform bacterial numbers in dairy waste solids.
(10) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
(11) With a proper storage time of 12 months, the resulting compost can be used to grow trees and food crops.
(12) The high-concentration metals in municipal refuse compost were tested for effects on cellulase production and activity in Thermomonospora curvata.
(13) It was also regularly isolated as a dominant fungus during forced aeration composting and after 30 days in an unaerated stationary curing pile; in both cases, the fungus was found in pile zones with temperatures less than 60 degrees C. Compost stored outdoors in stationary unaerated piles from 1 to 4 months after screening out of woodchips contained easily detectable amounts of A. fumigatus in the exterior pile zones (0- to 25-cm depths).
(14) Over the last five years, we’ve trained more than 20 compost technicians and built over a dozen large compost sites for emergency settings, primary schools, NGO compounds, and housing projects — providing simple, clean composting toilets and on-site waste treatment for thousands of people.
(15) Courgettes like full sun, well composted fertile ground and regular watering in dry weather.
(16) Composting of wastes from swine feeding operations was studied.
(17) But in terms of building the actual toilets and compost site, simple inexpensive materials are all that are needed.
(18) The compost piles consisted of ground corn husks, straw, and race horse manure.
(19) This made it necessary to compost the manure liquid and use it after subsidiary thermal treatment.
(20) It has been proved that the method can be successfully used for the determination of biochemical changes in microbe cultures, the soil, in composts, in farmyard manures etc.
Mixture
Definition:
(n.) The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.
(n.) That which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley.
(n.) An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient.
(n.) A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.
(n.) A mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.
(n.) An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
(2) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
(3) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(4) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
(5) Mixtures of 2 components involving kappa-casein were more readily dephosphorylated than alphas- and beta-casein mixtures.
(6) None of the animals injected with either CD4+ or CD8+ T cells became overtly diabetic during the 30 days of observation whereas 8 of 23 mice inoculated with a mixture of the two subsets developed glycosuria and hyperglycemia.
(7) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
(8) The IL-8 isolated from each of these cell types is a mixture of two IL-8 polypeptides, one consisting of 72 amino acids (herein called [ser-IL-8]72) and the other 77 amino acids (an N-terminal extended form herein called [ala-IL-8]77).
(9) Differential absorption experiments showed that LG-1 contained a mixture of specific and cross-reacting antibodies.
(10) The method involves the use of a monoclonal antibody fragment mixture that binds to platelets.
(11) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(12) The 105 000 X g supernatant of the reaction mixture, which contained more than 85% of the thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances, did not inactivate the plasmid DNA.
(13) Blood acid-base status, serum electrolytes, and urine pH were examined in 64 infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) treated with three different low phenylalanine protein hydrolyzates (Aponti, Cymogran, AlbumaidXP) and two synthetic amino acid mixtures (Aminogran, PAM).
(14) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
(15) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(16) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
(17) In addition, a beta-linked sialic acid:nucleoside conjugate (Kl-8111) and an equimolar mixture of Kl-8110 and Kl-8111 (Kl-414) also inhibited the metastatic ability of NL cells to the same extent as Kl-8110 did.
(18) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
(19) The bacterial strains did not liberate free patulin from the adduct mixture present in the growth medium.
(20) (Tokyo) 58, 227), yields a protein mixture that has a time-dependent 13C-NMR spectrum.