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making of dough
( in baking: The sponge-and-dough method )
...and humidity (e.g., 27° C [80° F] and 75 percent relative humidity), where it is fermented until it begins to decline in volume. The time required for this process, called the drop or break, depends on such variables as temperature, type of flour, amount of yeast, absorption, and amount of malt, which are frequently adjusted to produce a drop in about three to five hours.
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making of dough baking
...and humidity (e.g., 27° C [80° F] and 75 percent relative humidity), where it is fermented until it begins to decline in volume. The time required for this process, called the drop or break, depends on such variables as temperature, type of flour, amount of yeast, absorption, and amount of malt, which are frequently adjusted to produce a drop in about three to five hours.
table with one or two hinged leaves supported by articulated legs, arms, or brackets. An early 17th-century form is the gateleg table, which was followed by two later English forms—the Pembroke table and its more elongated version, the sofa table, which dates from about the 1790s. The sofa table could be drawn up to a sofa and was long enough for two people to sit at, side by side. It had a flap at either end, each supported on a hinged bracket. The top rested on a pair of decorative trestles, or braced frames, composed, for example, of two uprights on a horizontal support, terminating in a pair of outward-curving feet.
Regency sofa tables were often supported on a single centre pedestal resting on a platform that had four outward-curving feet terminating in brass lions’ paws. The butterfly table is a late 17th-century American type whose name derives from its shape when fully extended. The simplest form of drop-leaf table is the bracket table, a small side table fixed to the wall and supported by a bracket.
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merchandise distribution marketing
...not delivering goods. Truck wholesalers or jobbers sell and deliver directly from their vehicles, often for cash. They carry a limited line of semiperishables such as milk, bread, and snack foods. Drop shippers do not carry inventory or handle the merchandise. Operating primarily in bulk industries such as lumber, coal, and heavy equipment, they take orders but have manufacturers ship...
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shape of drops liquid
...has a measurable tension; work must be done to increase the area of the surface at constant temperature. Hence, in the absence of gravity or during free fall, the equilibrium shape of a volume of liquid is one that has a minimum area—i.e., a sphere. In the Earth’s field this shape is found only for small drops, for which the gravitational forces, since they are proportional to...
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surface tension surface tension
property of a liquid surface displayed by its acting as if it were a stretched elastic membrane. This phenomenon can be observed in the nearly spherical shape of small drops of liquids and of soap bubbles. Because of this property, certain insects can stand on the surface of water. A razor blade also can be supported by the surface tension of water. The razor blade is not floating: if pushed...
method of faceting gemstones into a pear shape suitable for pendants, earrings, and other jewelry. A pendeloque is a pear-shaped modification of the round brilliant cut used for diamonds. A briolette is an elongated, pear-shaped stone covered with bands of triangular or rectangular facets, usually with a pointed end and without a girdle.
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use of facets facet
...the very small one in the pavilion also parallel to the girdle is the culet. Certain stones, such as mogul cut diamonds (egg-shaped jewels faceted without regard for symmetry or brilliancy) or drop cut stones, have neither a girdle, a crown, nor a pavilion. In others, the crown and the pavilion are identical—e.g., in baguette cut stones.
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