Usage examples (28)

• Processing of ramie fibers requires two operations, namely decortication and degumming:
• This property has given rise to an operation called decortication, the results of which we shall examine later on from an industrial point of view.
• This process is known as decortication and, as well as raising the oil content of the raw material entering the extraction machinery, it ensures a higher protein content...
• GUPTA: Theoretically, it could, but this procedure, called decortication, actually removes not only the scar tissue, but the layer of tissue around the lung that causes...