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dry matter

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dry matter
plant or animal tissue residue after it has been heated to a constant weight and all of the moisture in the sample has been driven off by gentle heat.

dry matter basis
a method of expressing the concentration of a nutrient or poison in a feed, by expressing its concentration in terms of the dry matter content.
dry matter intake
the feed intake, usually per day, expressed in terms of its dry matter content.


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But, even during the best of circumstances, some dry matter is lost during this transformation.
Close-up dry cows are prone to lower dry matter intakes.
The scientists also semi-dried these tomato cultivars at 42 C to an average dry matter content of 19%.
 
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