Then there is the laborious process of extracting the precious elixir.

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The embedding process begins by extracting and compressing some minor details of the image, explains Mehmet Celik of the University of Rochester.

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The process involves extracting gas from rocks by pumping in sand, water and chemicals.

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Imagine 10 men in 10 tunnels - the process of extracting us would take that much more time.

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These react hydrogen and oxygen together in a controlled process, extracting energy in the form of electricity.

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But in the short term, researchers are working on reformers which produce hydrogen aboard vehicles by extracting the gas from methanol or other hydrocarbon fuels -- a process that can release pollutants, though at far lower levels than internal combustion engines, Roan said.

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There was great excitement in the 90s as an Australian company announced that it had a new process, capable of extracting nickel from a new type of ore.

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While they report significant progress over the past few years, most say their organizations do not have a repeatable process for extracting value from innovation and do not devote enough resources to it compared with running day-to-day operations.

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To add my own, entirely personal, supposition: that some to much of the opposition to fracking is due to opposition to fossil fuels altogether rather than to this specific process of extracting them.

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