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/ˌtɔ.ɹɪˈfæk.ʃən/ · noun
Drying or roasting; especially an anaerobic heat treatment to make wood waterproof..
During this operation the insects are constantly stirred about with a tin ladle; and sometimes water is sprinkled upon them, to prevent absolute torrefaction, which would destroy the colour, and reduce them to a coal ;
Pelletization is a proven technology for improving biomass properties, whereas torrefaction is considered a plausible alternative for decreasing the moisture content, increasing the energy density and greatly facilitating the handleability and grindability properties of the torrefied material.
After the biomass is dried, it needs to be heated further to the designed torrefaction temperature.
They now began by a change of diet and other precautions to prepare themselves to encounter the torrefaction of a tropical climate, and in somewhat more than a fortnight arrived in Carlisle Bay in the island of Barbadoes, which was appointed the general rendezvous of the expedition.
The walls of the stomach are lined with a nerve-interwoven delicat membrane, which suffers from scalding fluids as much as any other tegumental tissues of the body, and by daily torrefactions becomes either callous or chronically inflamed, and in either case less fit for the performance of its important functions.
Men of both these types abound in medicine especially, aside from the great mass of the unlearned, who, if perchance they have heard some mechanistic explanation of Descartes's and badly comprehended it (for indeed the whole system of Descartes is far above their heads), or if (bemused by the tricks of certain smoke-peddlers) they have learned to make some trifle at great cost with the aid of an evil-smelling torrefaction, they declare themselves not merely philosophers but the only wise men and cultivators of true medicine.
And in spite of all our professors of torrefaction — to borrow a phrase from Grant Allen — and our demonstrations of cookery, not one woman in fifty can boil rice, or be trusted to grill a chop when it is easier to fry it.
The face of the man was withered and blackened as by the torrefaction of a thousand flames; his beard was grey as ashes; and his eyes were expiring embers.
Use torrefaction when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Torrefaction means Drying or roasting; especially an anaerobic heat treatment to make wood waterproof..
Common synonyms include torrification, torrefication.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
During this operation the insects are constantly stirred about with a tin ladle; and sometimes water is sprinkled upon them, to prevent absolute torrefaction, which would destroy the colour, and reduce them to a coal ;
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