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Two companies have developed oxygen-free, trial-sized bottles, 50ml in size (1/15th of a normal bottle).
Wine trial vials, Chile, Grape Stories, class action – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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The farmers acknowledged that farm runoff, which feeds giant algae blooms that create oxygen-free dead zones, is a leading cause of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, but they also said they felt as if farmers alone were bearing the cost of cleanup.
Ehrlich courts Md. farmers, horse industry Fredrick Kunkle 2010
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This reminded him of work by Fletcher and Hopkins in 1907, which had shown that lactic acid increases in resting muscle in an oxygen-free environment, but then disappears when oxygen is reintroduced.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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In the oxygen-free environment of a cow's gut, these bacteria are able to obtain energy from nitrogen.
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These microbes took over in the oxygen-free water, rich in poisonous H2S and shallow enough to provide sufficient light for energy.
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And before Mars had been scrutinized under a sufficiently sensitive lens, those molecular traces had been undetectable; Mars, with its whisper-thin, oxygen-free atmosphere, had appeared already to be in an equilibrium state consistent with an eternally dead, lifeless desert.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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But Wednesday, NOAA's Lubchenco said oxygen-free dead zones have not been detected so far.
Majority of spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico unaccounted for in government data 2010
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Lactobacilli in particular flourish when food is submerged in liquid in an anaerobic (or oxygen-free) environment.
Fermentation: A wild way to make food come to life Kristen Hinman 2010
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But Wednesday, NOAA's Lubchenco said oxygen-free dead zones have not been detected so far.
Majority of spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico unaccounted for in government data 2010
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Almost everywhere we find biomarkers indicating that there existed an oxygen-free, toxic ocean — and that on land, almost all plants and animals quickly died out.
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