extraction
Example Sentences
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States that depend heavily on extractive industries such as mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction tended to offer fewer protections for insects and arachnids.
From Science Daily
In the Permian basin of New Mexico and west Texas, for example, producers can more quickly and economically ramp up extraction of light crude oil trapped in shale rock.
From Los Angeles Times
Rodríguez has thus been fully cooperative in areas such as American oil extraction and the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the United States.
From Los Angeles Times
"There are significant opportunities for petroleum extraction, mining of critical minerals, scientific expeditions, and more," Chalecki said.
From Barron's
Valor, a new company, launched to extract critical minerals from waste and ores using electrochemical liquid-liquid extraction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
