The Swach's cartridge, a key component of the system, resembles Edison's electric bulb and is made up of a composite of rice-husk ash (a highly porous material derived out of paddy husk) and fine particles of nano-silver, which inhibits bacteria growth.
They might sell a sachet of shampoo or a bottle of hair oil for a bag of rice, for instance.
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The ultrasound generator used in this technique can focus its energy into a space about the size of a grain of rice.
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The result, in the case of staple crops, is higher yields in tougher conditions: a hectare of rice, a C3 plant, produces a harvest of no more than eight tonnes, whereas maize, a C4 plant, yields as much as 12 tonnes.
Micro chipping involves a vet inserting a tiny device, about the size of a grain of rice, under the dog's skin.
For at least a millennium organisations of rice farmers have existed, today known as subaks and often led by the farmer whose plot is at the lowest point on a terrace of rice paddies.
And have your vet inject your pet with a tiny microchip implant (it's about the size of a grain of rice).
Such tags, the size of a grain of rice, are currently used to tag everything from pets to televisions, and cost a few dollars apiece.
Whereas traditional street stalls serve only one dish, com stands offer a wide choice of ready-made toppings to accompany a bowl of rice.
"My wife and I still eat a bowl of rice, two dishes of vegetables and drink a bowl of soup every day, " says Jiang, 48.
They drove out the capitalists (meaning the Chinese), re-educated anybody suspected of having shared a bowl of rice with an American and scrupulously laid the groundwork for economic stagnation.
To the contrary, the Bush Administration feels deeply indebted to the Saudi foreign minister for his participation and that of a representative of a country Ms. Rice's department lists as a state-sponsor of terror: Syria.
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Proposals such as a new form of rice subsidy, a doubling of the salaries of new civil servants and free tablet computers to all children starting school will cost a lot of money.
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The two meals served at Vishal's anganwadi a plate of puffed rice dotted with a few nuts and a serving of sprouted moong dal seem unlikely to give him 500 calories.
Hewlett-Packard has invented a wireless data chip that can store 100 pages of text or 15 seconds of video on a dot about half the size of a rice grain, with potentially dramatic applications in everything from health care to photography and marketing.
In Havana, school lunches now consist of a small plate of rice and beans.
Lunch was a single piece of bread, and dinner was a small serving of rice, lentil soup and occasionally vegetables.
Instead of labels, GenVault puts a tiny bit of unique rice DNA into each human cell sample, a sort of permanent bar code for the samples.
Migrant workers who could afford a pound of rice, can afford two pounds of rice.
Anytime a black-eyed pea meets a grain of rice, it becomes Hoppin' John.
Shortly after she met Adamchak, Ronald began looking for a variety of rice that could resist the floods that annually destroy 4 million tons of crops in India and Bangladesh.
In the meantime, there's always that low-tech fix if your beloved device has gone for an unplanned swim: Find a bowl and pick up a bag of rice.
The diner (now there's a grand word in this context) is offered a plate of rice cooked in coconut milk, onto which can be added any number of side dishes.
Sengeni, who lives on an alley wedged between the Nizamuddin railway tracks and a tributary known as ganda nallah (or dirty ditch), is looking forward to a dish of rice.
Welcoming his guest in formal clothes with a lantern, the farmer allows it to rest in a guest room before assisting it with a bath and offering a meal of rice, beans and fish.
Today, it is as much an accepted part of a Bogota Sunday as a tamale (a local favourite of rice, chicken, pork, egg and vegetables wrapped in a palm leaf) for breakfast.
In the southern Mekong Delta, where most of Vietnam's rice is grown, farmers face crippling debts because of a discriminatory rice-trading system that favours rapacious middlemen and state-owned exporting companies.
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