Experts said that a variety of reasons contributed to the shortage, including a dry winter, contamination of a nearby river and aging, leaky pipes that date to the days when the hill town was the summer capital of the British Raj.
Once harvested, the spores were vulnerable to drying and contamination, and the team had just 24 hours to transfer the precious cargo to the laboratory in Kew's Conservation Biotechnology Unit (CBU).
When storing dried foods, contamination from insects can occur.
Both brackets and buttons were tested under 3 different enamel surface conditions: (1) dry, (2) water contamination, (3) saliva contamination.
Both orthodontic brackets and disinclusion buttons were tested under three different enamel surface conditions: (a) dry, (b) water contamination, and (c) saliva contamination.
In the 70's, myriad styles proliferated: earth art, conceptual art, performance art, language-based art -- anything sufficiently unwieldy, difficult, challenging or dry to escape contamination by the marketplace.
Currently, several gueltas are overexploited by herdsmen, producing water-shortage during the dry season, faecal contamination by domestic animals, and increased activities for excavating pools or pumping water [31].
These various types of ovisacs have evolved convergently to protect their offspring from wet and dry conditions, honeydew contamination, and natural enemies (Gullan and Kosztarab, 1997).
Canning protects against drying and environmental contamination, but texture staling and some degree of flavour staling still occur.
The effects of ischaemia, heat, drying, handling and contamination mean that agents providing protection throughout the peritoneal cavity could be advantageous.
