Processing of ramie fibers requires two operations, namely decortication and degumming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference

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 in the oil-cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

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 scarring in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2005] Reference

Pile harvested stalks in bundles and bring to a nearby shed for decortication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

So, I've been mulling over CodeBlueBlog's coverage of Bill Clinton's decortication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference

In decortication, the operator feeds the stalks into the decorticator, starting with the upper tip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Known sources of equipment for the decortication of sunflower seeds, groundnuts and palm kernels are listed below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Such grain lends itself to high storage losses, low decortication yields, poor food quality, and poor seedling vigor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 27] Reference

New techniques for easier processing are urgently needed and there have been some promising developments in mechanical decortication.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Lost crops of the incas.] Reference

It is for this reason that traditional hand decortication often produces low yields of flour (not to mention its tendency to go rancid during storage).    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types] Reference

Last year, however, witnessed the solution of the question of decortication in the green state in a satisfactory manner by M.A. Favier's process, as reported by us at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference

Reduction in oil content decreases energy value, but increases protein content, whereas decortication reduces fibre content of the material thereby increasing both oil and protein levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

To determine the action of this tissue through its presence, take 100 grammes of wheat, wash it and remove the first coating by decortication; then immerse it for several hours in lukewarm water, and dry afterwards in an ordinary temperature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference

It proves, besides, that this membrane, like all those endowed with life, does not obey more the ordinary laws of permeability than those of chemical affinity, and this property can be turned to advantage in the preservation of grain in decortication and grinding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference

The decortication is effected with wonderful rapidity, and the canes, opened throughout their entire length and at all points of their circumference, leave the apparatus in a state that allows of no doubt as to what the result of the pressure will be that they have to undergo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference

Thus the process of decortication is effectively accomplished in a few minutes, instead of requiring, as it sometimes does in the retting process, days, and even weeks, and being at the best attended with uncertainty as to results, as is also the case when decortication is effected by machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference

Premature harvesting not only results in decortication problems but also in a shrivelling of the core.    From Wordnik.com.  [Article Source] Reference

Moseley's visit was clearly prior to the time sisal harvest and decortication was renewed because when I asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

However, harvesting is delayed until the fruit is fully ripe and the skin is sufficiently soft for the decortication process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Article Source] Reference

The rate of complicated pneumonia -- which includes empyema, pleural effusion or bacterial pneumonia requiring a chest tube or decortication -- increased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

When flax has ripened, it is put through a process of decortication, which leaves only the textile fibre, and this was the work which poor old Kermelle thought that he could do without loss of dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of My Youth]

The ground here is in many places encrusted with an impure salt, which by the taste appears to be a combination of the sulphate and muriate of soda; there are also a number of little pools, of only a few inches in depth, scattered over the plain, the water of which is so bitter and pungent, that it seems to penetrate into the tongue, and almost to produce decortication of the mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Townsend Chapter 3] Reference

Flowsheet 5 Dry Process for Processing Oil seeds (General Flowsheet) 1) decortication: to prepare a rawmaterial for further processing with the highest possible oil content.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Target Groups and Technologies] Reference

(decortication plant) is expected to provide new farm income for about 200 farmers, putting more than 12,000 acres into cultivation, said John Baker, president and founder of Stonehedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cannabis Culture Magazine] Reference

This process is called decortication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Yes, the procedure is called decortication.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2005] Reference

Bfs) to achieve decortication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference