freeze-drying
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A method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure;
Material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes (synset 113506140)is a type of:- dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation - the process of extracting moisture
- freeze, freezing - the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
same as: lyophilisation, lyophilization
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