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feed·stock | \ ˈfēd-ˌstäk 
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\Definition of feedstock
: raw material supplied to a machine or processing plant
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Recent Examples on the Web That nation, for example, is also the world’s largest producer and exporter of active pharmaceutical ingredients, the chemical feedstock of modern medicine.
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Clifton Leaf, Fortune, "What we know about COVID-19," 20 Apr. 2020 And the low cost of electricity and chemical feedstocks based on fossil fuels will help contribute to a steady growth in industrial energy use.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, "US government sees renewables passing natural gas in 20 years," 30 Jan. 2020 Typically, low oil prices stimulate the economy because the fossil fuel remains essential: oil fuels factories and transportation and even serves as the feedstock for a vast array of products.
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Justin Worland, Time, "Answers to Six Key Questions About the Oil Price Collapse," 11 Mar. 2020 In contrast, the industrial sector uses propane as a feedstock to make petrochemicals, plastics, and other products.
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Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, "‘Innovate or die’: Propane industry fights for survival in a low-carbon future," 13 Feb. 2020 The plant would produce 1.3 million tons of ammonia per year from nitrogen gas and hydrogen feedstock with an estimated completion date in 2023.
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Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, "Nearly $1B Gulf Coast Ammonia plant in Texas City to begin construction," 8 Jan. 2020 Today, 14 percent of oil and 8 percent of gas is used to make petrochemicals, the feedstock of plastics.
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Anchorage Daily News, "Coronavirus worries slow Alaska seafood exports," 3 Mar. 2020 The new system uses a millifluidic reactor, which operates at only 650 degrees Fahrenheit and forces the metal carbide feedstock through channels less than a millimeter wide.
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Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, "Cheap Nanoparticles Pave the Way for Carbon-Neutral Fuel," 19 Feb. 2020 They are churned out by bacteria that convert sand, nutrients, and other feedstocks into a form of biocement, much the way corals synthesize reefs.
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Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, "From 'living' cement to medicine-delivering biofilms, biologists remake the material world," 18 Feb. 2020
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