Sentences with phrase «like desiccation»

Not sure and often, heat drying is more like desiccation — just hot enough to help the natural evaporation of water — like making REAL beef jerky, which should be dried at 104F max.

Not exact matches

Like other so - called «resurrection plants», the grass has the ability to withstand desiccation (being dried out) for prolonged periods but can be revived by water.

The desiccation continued, and, by 700 B.C., mostly desert flora like the hardy acacia tree dotted the now - parched landscape.

But while «DE» may look and feel like talcum powder to us, to insects it is a lethal dust with microscopic razor - sharp edges which cuts the flea's protective outer covering, leading to desiccation and death.

In fact we can quite easily blame ongoing desiccation for the downfall of Islamic civilization and the rise of Christianity — the population of North Africa dwindled to nearly nothing, cutting off the Maghrib from Baghdad, leaving great cities like Timbuctu as minor outposts, and leaving cities like Sabratha empty.