A man was sitting in front of the corncob fire that flamed and blazed in the great, gaping, sooty fireplace.
All the space between the house and vineyard, in every direction, was strewn with corncobs and remnants of haystacks, while straw and manure were banked against the house to keep the cellar warm.
For soda these women burned corncobs and mixed the ashes with their corn-meal.
If it is impossible to get hardwood use corncobs rather than soft wood.
Withered and hardened corncobs were found within them.
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I woke up early in the morning, put on a long-sleeved shirt and drove to the edge of the field to gather corncobs.
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Fodder is also widely cultivated: hay, clover,corncob, etc. cover 6,924 ha of land and yield an output of 291.3 quintals/ha.
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Many types of cellulosic materials have been used, including newspaper, cardboard, cotton, straw, sawdust, hemp andcorncob.
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It is made to hold between 700 ml and 1 liter of the liquid with a cork orcorncobstopper.
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However, industrial production starts from xylan (a hemicellulose) extracted from hardwoods or corncobs, which is hydrolyzed into xylose and catalytically hydrogenated into xylitol.
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Furfuryl alcohol is manufactured industrially by the catalytic reduction of furfural which is obtained fromcorncoband sugar cane bagasse.
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He smokes acorncobpipe and can transform into a shark-like combat form.
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It is expected to produce 25 million gallons of ethanol per year from corncobs, leaves and husks provided by farmers in and around the area.
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The small opening at the top is plugged by a stopper of cork orcorncob.
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Additionally, he embraced the use of cellulose from corncobs left after processing seed corn as cattle feed.
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It rose to 16 feet (4.9 m), and featured acorncobpipe, a carrot nose, and two eyes made out of beer bottles.
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We license onlycorncobpipes marketed for use with illegal drugs.
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It is the world's oldest and largest manufacturer ofcorncobpipes.
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There is another pricelesscorncob, and the two immediately begin arguing over who it belongs to...
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