dilution

Examples of diluting

diluting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Without causing absolute fusion, the instrumental figures enhance and accentuate certain aspects of the electroacoustic context, without diluting themselves into it.
Autochthonous carbonates can rapidly precipitate out of the water column in shallow, hard-water tropical lakes, thus diluting pollen present in the lake sediment.
On the other side, the preoccupation with creating 'architects' through an enforced curriculum is diluting the potential for schools to embark on more exploratory agendas.
Moreover, the mysteries of mixing and diluting serum - second only to homeopathic remedies - made it necessary to establish an objective value.
Comparative values were obtained by diluting or concentrating the mixtures, or by scaling up and down.
Moreover, as the old peak association officially representing small industrialists weakened, more than 300 new organisations emerged by 1999, further diluting its political influence.
The latter process would run a substantial risk of diluting any ongoing anti-pathogen response with useless accidental or historical responses.
Activists blamed enterprising workers and their new lifestyles for diluting the working class temperament and abandoning the working class.
First, when bureaucrats accept bribes this has the effect of diluting the sanctions for non-compliance.
By diluting the definition of culture as roughly equivalent to social learning, the claim for cetacean culture becomes fundamentally empty.
She offers an insightful study of the long tradition of 'sapphic' diva-worship as a way of diluting 'some of the inevitable mortifications of self-exposure' (22).
Diluting abundant spins by isotope edited radio frequency field assisted diffusion.
Another factor diluting chances of larval trematodes being adapted to each other is that some trematodes can use alternate snail species.
Different worm egg levels were prepared by diluting infected faeces with those of uninfected goats.
Sampling depths that are too large run the risk of diluting changes occurring at a particular depth increment in the soil profile.
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