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1Grain elevator — Saskatchewan Wheat Pool No. 7, Thunder Bay, Ontario. A grain elevator is a tower containing a bucket elevator, which scoops up, elevates, and then uses gravity to deposit grain in a silo or other storage facility. In most …
2Grain boundary strengthening — (or Hall Petch strengthening) is a method of strengthening materials by changing their average crystallite (grain) size. It is based on the observation that grain boundaries impede dislocation movement and that the number of dislocations within a …
3grain — [grān] n. [ME greyne < OFr grein, a seed, grain (< L granum, a seed, kernel) & grainne, seed or grain collectively (< LL grana, fem., orig. pl. of L granum) < IE base * ĝer , to become ripe > CORN1, KERNEL] 1. a small, hard seed or …
4Grain trade — The grain trade refers the local and international trade in cereals and other grains such as wheat, maize, and rice.History), does a major grain trade become possible.Early trade was most likely by barter, and because hauling large amounts of… …
5grain — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, partly from Anglo French grain cereal grain, from Latin granum; partly from Anglo French graine seed, kermes, from Latin grana, plural of granum more at corn Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) obsolete a single small… …
6grain — 1. Cereal plants, such as corn, wheat, or rye, or a seed of one of them. 2. A minute, hard particle of any substance, as of sand. 3. (gr) A unit of weight, 160 dram (apoth. or troy), 1437.5 avoirdupois ounce, 1480 troy …
7grain — greɪn n. cereal; seed; granule; plants producing grain; particle; small portion of; texture, weave v. manufacture grains; crumble into granules; paint in imitation of a grain (such as wood grain) …
8fine-grain — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective 1. : producing images of low graininess so that considerable enlargement without undue coarseness is permitted used of a photographic developer 2. also fine grained ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ : characterized by comparatively fine graininess… …
9Economic history of the People's Republic of China — Throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as during much of earlier Chinese history, the economy was barely able to meet the basic needs of the country s huge population the largest in the world. In normal years the economy… …
102007–2008 world food price crisis — The years 2007–2008 saw dramatic rises in world food prices, creating a global crisis and causing political and economical instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations. Systemic causes for the world wide increases in food… …
