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Know More Most biofuels consumed globally come from food crops such as corn, palm oil, rapeseed, and sugar.
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Nithin Coca, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Irish single grain refers to the fact that the whiskey is produced at one distillery from a mashbill that includes a mixture of grains (usually a large percentage of corn), most commonly in a column still as opposed to a pot still.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
Premiering Wednesday, which not coincidentally is Earth Day, on Netflix, the six-part series spotlights the cultivation or gathering of plants one eats, rather than which just look pretty, with episodes on apples, tomatoes, root vegetables, corn, foraging and compost.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
The watery consommé subsumed what few masa dumplings swam their lonesome swirls in the bowl, with cobs of corn left like derelict buoys in the sloppy orange miasma.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Nithin Coca, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Irish single grain refers to the fact that the whiskey is produced at one distillery from a mashbill that includes a mixture of grains (usually a large percentage of corn), most commonly in a column still as opposed to a pot still.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
Premiering Wednesday, which not coincidentally is Earth Day, on Netflix, the six-part series spotlights the cultivation or gathering of plants one eats, rather than which just look pretty, with episodes on apples, tomatoes, root vegetables, corn, foraging and compost.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
The watery consommé subsumed what few masa dumplings swam their lonesome swirls in the bowl, with cobs of corn left like derelict buoys in the sloppy orange miasma.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026
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sludge
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When the basin’s draining began in late March, some in the community worried about turtles being left behind in the sludge.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
24 Apr. 2026
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First, in the pretreatment step, the sludge was heated to high temperatures and exposed to oxygen.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Corn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corn. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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