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WHEN was the last time you saw a journalist that was impartial on this issue or any other for that matter approach the issue without a ready-formed opinion?
Archive 2007-07-01 Strumpet 2007
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WHEN was the last time you saw a journalist that was impartial on this issue or any other for that matter approach the issue without a ready-formed opinion?
What happened to journalists, anyway? Strumpet 2007
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This work is devoted to the determination of the contents of the different elements in organic compounds, the aim of which is to determine the quantities of the various elements in organic, so-called carbon compounds - whether these compounds occur ready-formed in the animal and vegetable kingdom or have been prepared in a chemist's laboratory.
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They usually exist ready-formed, but occasionally they are obtained by a kind of fermentation, as oil of bitter almonds and oil of mustard.
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Even the most complete grinding which can be attained, however, leaves the bones in a much less minute state of division than guano, and they necessarily act more slowly than it does, the more especially as they contain no ready-formed ammonia.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson
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Just as the loose snow in the glaciers is pressed together to solid ice, so also in many places ready-formed irregular pieces of ice are joined and form clear and compact ice.
Ice and Glaciers 1909
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But when the lava contains no ready-formed crystals, but consists entirely of a glassy substance in a more or less perfect state of fusion, the liberation of steam gives rise to the formation of the beautiful material known as "pumice."
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877
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As the food supplied to these animals contained but a very small proportion of ready-formed fat, it was inferred that four-fifths of the fat of the increase was derived from the sugar, starch, cellulose, and pectine bodies.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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It is an important point in the composition of oil-cakes, that they contain a large proportion of ready-formed fatty matters which can, with but little alteration, be at once transmuted into animal fat.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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