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The high-altitude, bone-dry landscape, with its dazzling days and spectacularly starry nights, formed twenty million years ago.
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Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025
Many solid-state materials need bone-dry manufacturing environments or special atmospheres.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Wheat advises to make sure your plants aren't bone-dry or soaking wet.
—Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 14 Sep. 2025
The device doesn’t produce a huge amount of water from the bone-dry air — around two-thirds of a cup a day — but the ultimate aim is to supply a household with drinking water even in arid deserts, said Xuanhe Zhao, a mechanical engineering professor at MIT.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025
Many solid-state materials need bone-dry manufacturing environments or special atmospheres.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Wheat advises to make sure your plants aren't bone-dry or soaking wet.
—Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 14 Sep. 2025
The device doesn’t produce a huge amount of water from the bone-dry air — around two-thirds of a cup a day — but the ultimate aim is to supply a household with drinking water even in arid deserts, said Xuanhe Zhao, a mechanical engineering professor at MIT.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Bone-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bone-dry. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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