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spoil

(Impair), verb addle, blemish, blight, botch, break, bungle, butcher, corrumpere, corrupt, damage, dammge irreparably, debase, decay, decompose, deface, defile, deform, demolish, destroy, deteriorate, dilapidate, disable, disfigure, go bad, harm, hurt, impair, injure, lay waste, mangle, mar, mess up, mutilate, perdere, putrefy, rot, ruin, ruinate, sabotage, smash, sour, turn, vitiate, wreck

spoil

verb despoil, forage, foray, loot, pirate, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, rob, spoliare, spoliate, steal, waste

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Metal recovery, % = Metal content in leachate X 100/ Initial metal content in dredged spoil

Microbial leaching of heavy metal contaminated dredged materials using modified Starkey medium

This paper presents the findings of laboratory experiments and a field-based trial investigating the use of organic mulches on a saline-sodic Tertiary spoil from the Goonyella Riverside mine in central Queensland.

The effect of organic mulch amendments on the physical and chemical properties and revegetation success of a saline-sodic minespoil from central Queensland, Australia

This reviewer and her children highly recommends GRANDMA SPOILS ME by Mary H.

Grandma Spoils Me

With their adapted instrument, the researchers could detect acetic acid's chemical signature in sealed bottles even at concentrations below the official limit at which vinegar spoils wine and when the corks appeared normal, Augustine says.

Instrument can sniff out vinegar in sealed wine. (Wine Tasting)

Covering 220,000 square meters, the proposed terminal will be built by means of clay spoils from the Gta lv river and plans cover the capability to handle breakbulk roll-on, roll-off cargoes.

Sweden : GOTHENBURG to build new Freight Terminal

As Roald Dahl put it in 1964 in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, "A girl can't spoil herself, you know.

Too much of a good thing

The growth pattern of the mesophilic acidophile in both dredged spoil samples is similar, though the bacteria population in spoil 1 was generally higher.

Thioleaching of heavy metal contaminated sediments using matin's medium

MIKE SMITH has one aim this weekend: he wants to spoil the Triple Crown party.

Stateside: Jockey out to spoil the party: Mike Smith

Draglines are used in most open-cut coal mines in Australia, with the result that landscapes after mining generally consist of a series of parallel spoil piles, with slope angles of approximately 75%.

Impact of vegetative cover and slope on runoff, erosion, and water quality for field plots on a range of soil and spoil materials on central Queensland coal mines

It's impossible to spoil something that is already rotten to the core," he says.

Spoiling for success: in New Mexico, the Green Party costs the Democrats a Congressional seat

A MANUFACTURER of a treatment for excavated spoil has established its first Welsh facility in Caldicot.

Factory's machines to process spoil from building

Washington, Sep 20 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that bacteria that cause pickles to spoil could also detoxify environmentally hazardous industrial dyes that pollute water.