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feedstock Definition

feed·stock (-stäk′)

noun

raw material for industrial processing; often, specif., any of various petroleum products used in making petrochemicals and gasoline

feedstock Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • produce: The total cost to the consumer is estimated at $ 8.4 billion a year because producing the required corn feedstock increases corn prices.
  • use: The process for making fuel from biomass feedstock used in the 1800's is basically the same one used today.
  • provide: By recycling materials to provide the feedstock for other products the amount of material going to incineration or landfill can be reduced.

Preposition: for

  • production: Ethanol and the Agricultural Economy Corn constitutes about 90 % of the feedstock for ethanol production in the United States.
  • industry: With salt and coal, it formed the main feedstock for the chemical industry until about 1914.

Adjective modifier

  • renewable: Industrial sectors like the forest products industries are currently using renewable biomass feedstocks.
  • main: With salt and coal, it formed the main feedstock for the chemical industry until about 1914.
  • different: Defining the properties of various biofuels will help in the design of equipment and procedures to accommodate different feedstocks.
  • cellulosic: However, as the name indicates, cellulosic feedstocks are high in cellulose, and cellulose cannot be fermented.
  • agricultural: Meanwhile, another form of agricultural feedstock for heating, biogas, seems to gain little encouragement from the Report.

Modifies a noun

  • recycling: Feedstock recycling Involves breaking plastic down by using a chemical process called polymer cracking.
  • price: Borealis ' feedstock prices in the third quarter of 1999 were 58 per cent higher than in the third quarter of the previous year.
  • cost: But it should have been, because lower feedstock costs helped reduce overall costs by $ 43 million.
  • material: Once accepted, the feedstock material is stored in a bay.

Noun used with modifier

  • biofuel: This text starts with an outline of the importance and position of primary production of biomass, and then of biofuel feedstocks.
  • biomass: The process for making fuel from biomass feedstock used in the 1800's is basically the same one used today.
  • chemical: Still in its infancy is the use of wood as chemical feedstock.
  • petrochemical: This meant that it exhausted its remaining natural gas reserves for production of liquid fuels and petrochemicals feedstock.
  • silicon: He believes the CSI, along with the silicon feedstock shortage and current high costs, will further accelerate the existing trend toward thin-film.
  • corn: The total cost to the consumer is estimated at $ 8.4 billion a year because producing the required corn feedstock increases corn prices.

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