Additional lignin was gradually removed by alkaline pretreatments with increasing NaOH concentrations, reaching an 88% maximum removal using a 2% NaOH solution.
The crystal is thought of as being made of numerous tiny blocks that are gradually removed.
The traces of indigenous presence, past and present, were gradually removed from the maps as the colonists pushed west.
Experts say a diet in which suspect foods are gradually removed should help patients identify any problematic foods.
In the formation of a pseudomorph by substitution, the original substance has been gradually removed and simultaneously replaced by another.
When the British took over what is now northern Nigeria at the end of the 19th century, they retained Islamic law but gradually removed the harsher punishments.
Erdoğan gradually removed the army's baleful influence over civilian politics, which had manifested itself in no fewer than three coups since 1950.
It wants the current cap on tuition fees, which restricts them to £3,225 a year, to be gradually removed – with no limit to remain by 2020.
After the protectorate was assumed, however, they were gradually removed from office, and the colony and protectorate were governed by British administrators.
He gradually removed the objects he portrayed from their natural context and reassembled them as if in accordance with a new, mysterious grammar, creating a ghostly, eerie impression.
Impatient with the puritanical American missionaries and suspicious of Yankee businessmen, he gradually removed all American members from cabinet posts and encouraged Hawaii's commercial interests with other nations.
