
1) Any material used to thicken 2) Any thickened enlargement 3) Deepening 4) Gathering 5) Intensifying 6) The act of thickening
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1) Clot 2) Complex 3) Deepening 4) Gathering 5) Intensifying 6) Thickener
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- make thick or thicker
- make viscous or dense, as of liquids
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In cooking, thickening is the process of increasing the viscosity of a liquid either by reduction, or by the addition of a thickening agent, typically containing starch. Desserts are often thickened with sago, tapioca, gelatin or a gelatin substitute such as agar. Soups, sauces and stews are more often thickened with a starchy ingredient like corn...
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• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thicken • (n.) Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
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(from the article `food additive`) Stabilizers and thickeners have many functions in foods. Most stabilizing and thickening agents are polysaccharides, such as starches or gums, or ... In the process of thickening (also called sedimentation), the solids in a suspension settle under the influence of gravity in a tank and form a thick ......
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Thick'en·ing noun Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
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[
adj] - becoming more intricate or complex 2. [n] - any material used to thicken 3. [n] - the act of thickening
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See under concentration. Concentration Various methods of concentrating grape must or wine by removing certain substances. In most cases this is done by reducing the pure water content. The oldest form is the drying of grapes, which was already used in ancient times. Today, this is achieved by a correspondingly late harvest and/or drying on st...
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For copper sulfide ore, a stage in the process of pyrometallurgy, in which the copper froth from the froth floatation stage is poured into large tanks called thickeners, where the copper solids settle and are filtered to remove excess water; this copper concentrate will then undergo smelting.
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adjective becoming more intricate or complex; `a thickening plot`
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