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chaffs

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Third person singular of chaff

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The traditional method consists of hitting the bean pods with sticks to achieve separation and winnow the chaffs using natural wind.

One of the most widely cultivated crops in the world is rice, leading to millions of tons of rice husks (also known as rice hulls or chaffs).

Figure 1 Assembled chaffs.

Chaffs were separated from the oilseeds by winnowing.

From each container, 100 g of grains was poured on a tray and sorting was done by removing all damaged grains (perforated, cracks, and discolored) together with chaffs and grain hulls.

Up to seven green and brown aerial peduncles and chaffs, roughly 4-10 mm in size, protrude from umbels at the top of the stem from which achenes are produced after fertilisation, each with a single pappus; these combine to form a distinctive white perianth around 5 cm long.

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The point is, July and August have a habit of distilling the wheat from the chaff; these months demand that you maintain, or improve, you standards, else you'll be banished to the naughty corner or a fate even worse (like an elimination final).

The documents, which include recently declassified cables from the Australian high commission, reinforce the view that Gukurahundi – a Shona word for the spring rains that sweep away dry season chaff - was closely associated with Mugabe's Zanu-PF party's efforts to eliminate opposition groups after independence in 1980.

Surprisingly, though, one of them had a morsel of insight amid all the chaff.

One year, Mr Allan arranged for a Pluto preacher to shout out "praise Pluto!" Another, counter-protesters appeared unexpectedly, chaffing pro-Plutonians.

But football's legends can emerge from the seeming chaff of human physiques: think of stocky Diego Maradona, perhaps the greatest ever player, or his Argentine successor, the tiny genius Lionel Messi.Then there is the matter of gold medals and opportunity costs.

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