waste product
noun
: useless material that is produced when making something else
a hazardous waste product
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Interest in hydrogen as a fuel that produces only water as a waste product when consumed in a fuel cell appears to be booming around the world.
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Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Plasma creatinine, a waste product that enters the blood from muscles, is typically filtered out by kidneys, so increased levels affirmed their suspicions.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
The new pig kidney is making urine as well as creatinine, a waste product.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
This year, Oakdale will be trying Turbo Melt, composed of magnesium chloride and a biodegradable waste product, which comes from food and beverage waste streams — these substances are byproducts of food and beverage manufacturing that would otherwise go unused.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024
When cyanobacteria evolved to create oxygen as a waste product of photosynthesis, the subsequent build-up of oxygen in the atmosphere around 2.4 billion years ago removed methane, a greenhouse gas, and buried carbon on the seafloor, plunging the planet into a series of worldwide glaciations.
—Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
The 28-year-old is monitoring dozens of glass bottles containing different combinations of rum distillery waste product and sargassum and using the results to work on her thesis, which will also help shape Rum and Sargassum’s business product.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
All touring and production vehicles will be electric or fueled by 100 percent waste product HVO fuel.
—Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2023
Your muscles produce lactic acid, a waste product of your cells turning carbs into energy.
—Lauren Del Turco, Health, 20 Nov. 2023
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Plasma creatinine, a waste product that enters the blood from muscles, is typically filtered out by kidneys, so increased levels affirmed their suspicions.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
The new pig kidney is making urine as well as creatinine, a waste product.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
This year, Oakdale will be trying Turbo Melt, composed of magnesium chloride and a biodegradable waste product, which comes from food and beverage waste streams — these substances are byproducts of food and beverage manufacturing that would otherwise go unused.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024
When cyanobacteria evolved to create oxygen as a waste product of photosynthesis, the subsequent build-up of oxygen in the atmosphere around 2.4 billion years ago removed methane, a greenhouse gas, and buried carbon on the seafloor, plunging the planet into a series of worldwide glaciations.
—Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
The 28-year-old is monitoring dozens of glass bottles containing different combinations of rum distillery waste product and sargassum and using the results to work on her thesis, which will also help shape Rum and Sargassum’s business product.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
All touring and production vehicles will be electric or fueled by 100 percent waste product HVO fuel.
—Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2023
Your muscles produce lactic acid, a waste product of your cells turning carbs into energy.
—Lauren Del Turco, Health, 20 Nov. 2023
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