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Waste product   /weɪst prˈɑdəkt/   Listen
Waste product

noun
1.
Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted.  Synonyms: waste, waste material, waste matter.  "Much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"






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"Waste product" Quotes from Famous Books



... process, the making of cider vinegar utilizes an otherwise waste product, the culls or unmarketable varieties. It can be done on rainy days or when other work is slack. For the best results, however, as in any form of marketing, some vinegar should be made each year so that the market ...
— Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various

... the marvels of entomology to some of the problems of hygiene and medicine. He has shown that the irritant poison secreted by certain caterpillars, "which sets the fingers which handle them on fire," is nothing but a waste product of the organism, a derivative of uric acid; he does not hesitate to perform painful experiments on himself in order to furnish the proof of his theory; and he explains thus the curious cases of dermatitis which are often observed among ...
— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros



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