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n. - Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.

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  • Saat TAML larut dalam air, hydrogen peroksida mengaktifkan TAML dengan menggantikan ligan H2O dengan H2O2 pada gugus TAML.
  • Tonight: the Frank Vascellaro, "Who-ligan" side of the argument.
  • Jetsam, or goods cast overboard and sunk under water; flotsam, or goods afloat on the surface; and ligan, or goods sunk, but tied to buoys, etc., to savethem
  • It was not jetsam, because it never had been cast into the sea to save the ship; nor was it ligan, because the very definition of the word from the Latin ‘ligo,‘ to...
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