[…] I loaned them the valve that they used to seed the clouds or preseed them with liquid nitrate solution […]
Also included in the menu is the possibility to preseed the entire LSE matrix to any desired level, thus providing a base for many classes of experiment.1982, Francis R. Pettit, Post-Digital Electronics, page 146:
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Under this scheme, an outbreak of influenza in one year would preseed the population to give a pattern of latent infectives from which a subsequent outbreak would arise in a later year.1986, Andrew David Cliff, Peter Haggett, J. K. Ord, Spatial Aspects of Influenza Epidemics, page 18:
If you haven't been able to preseed the filter with bacteria from another aquarium […]1998, Joyce D. Wilkerson, Clownfishes: A Guide to Their Captive Care, Breeding & Natural History, page 93:
Preseed plates by spreading approximately 108 phage each of λKH54 and λKH54h80.2003, Peter E. Vaillancourt, E. Coli Gene Expression Protocols, page 245:
preseed
noun
UK /ˈpɹiːˌsiːd/
Etymology From pre- + seed.
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Biotechnology, Engineering, Medicine, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A medium specially prepared for a seeding operation.
The preseed is then transferred aseptically to 20-liter seed tanks [....]1988, Roman Saliwanchik, Protecting Biotechnology Inventions: A Guide for Scientists, page 157:
The preseed was incubated with mild agitation at 30 "C for 24 h.1990, DE Steinmeyer, ML Shuler, “Continuous operation of a pressure-cycled membrane bioreactor”, in Biotechnology Progress:
preseed
adj
Etymology From pre- + seed.
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Before a seeding or seed stage of development.
Increases in one experiment ranged from 10 to 200 times the preseed rainfall from the individual clouds, [....]1972, John Gliedman, Terror from the Sky: North Viet-Nam's Dikes and the U. S. Bombing, page 71:
There are many traditional sources of funding, but for new spin-off company creation, gaining access to early stage (angel, preseed, and seed) [...]2006, Elliott C. Kulakowski, Lynne U. Chronister, Research Administration and Management, page 799:
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The totality of the preseed culture is added into the final culture composed of the same medium.2007, Sylvie Doublié, Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols, page 31: