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compacting
verb
Present participle of compact
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Japanese farmers have used drones to boost yields by about 15%Besides surveying, drones can seed and spray fields without compacting topsoil or crushing plants.
These are typically trucks of the enclosed, compacting type, with capacities up to 30 cubic metres (40 cubic yards).
The pellets are made by blending appropriate quantities of enriched and natural or depleted UO2 powders, mechanically compacting them, adding an organic binder, pressing into pellets, heating to burn off the binder, and finally sintering at high temperature to 95 percent theoretical density.
Domestic animals, however, can have a deleterious impact by trampling and compacting the soil; this activity can reduce the infiltration of water and damage vegetation, leading to erosion and redistribution of soil materials.
Earthfill dam, also called Earth Dam, or Embankment Dam, dam built up by compacting successive layers of earth, using the most impervious materials to form a core and placing more permeable substances on the upstream and downstream sides.
Rammed earth, building material made by compacting certain soils, used by many civilizations.
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But the Supreme Court has ruled, in the case Chuck mentions and in several others, that the "compact clause" requires congressional consent only if a compact encroaches on federal power or on the powers of non-compacting states.
Carefully, the Tioga County sheriff has explained that "foul play" has not been ruled out as a possibility, though the medical examiner has determined that the "massive injuries" to the body of Hector Campos, Jr., are "compatible" with injuries that would have been caused by the trash-compacting process.
Some perish under the trash-compacting trucks, including a 14-year-old boy who was crushed to death in July.
A good-sized kerfuffle has already broken out around WALL-E, Pixar's animated film about a cute trash-compacting robot left to clean up a soiled, deserted earth on behalf of obese off-worlders – timely environmental fable or pernicious leftist propaganda?
In another case, the body of Angeles Rawson, 16, was found inside a rubbish-compacting machine.
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