Sentence examples for chaff was from inspiring English sources

An earlier version said chaff was used to confuse heat-seeking missiles; it would be used against radar-guided missiles.

The experimental evaluation of the acoustic absorption properties of new samples made of coffee chaff was carried out.

The larger of the two operations, Taxable, was carried out by 18 small boats, a mix of Harbour Defence Motor Launches (HDML) and search and rescue Pinnaces, designated Special Task Force A. Chaff was dropped by Lancaster bombers from the No. 617 "Dam Busters" Squadron.

Chaff was most susceptible to pretreatment and hydrolysis, and nodes and internodes were the most recalcitrant fractions.

Rice chaff is often used as fuel in Asia.

Once the wheat and chaff are separated, the success rate for the wheat looks much better.

That is, the wheat left over when gossip's chaff is sifted out.

"Chaff is simple and it's cheap," Joseph Cirincione, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said.

Thus we see how chad, chit and chaff are related in the sense of "small residue".

Who can forget MacKinlay shouting at Dr David Kelly: "You're chaff, aren't you?

Also the adsorption/desorption recycles of chaff were shown, and the results indicated that chaff could be recycled to remove heavy metal ions.