Maceration

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Maceration may refer to:

  • Maceration (food), in food preparation
  • Maceration (wine), a step in wine-making
    • Carbonic maceration, a wine-making technique
  • Maceration (sewage), in sewage treatment
  • Maceration (bone), a method of preparing bones
  • Acid maceration, the use of an acid to extract micro-fossils from rock
  • Maceration, in chemistry, the preparation of an extract by solvent extraction
  • Maceration, in biology, the mechanical breakdown of ingested food into chyme
  • Skin maceration, in dermatology, the softening and whitening of skin that is kept constantly wet
  • Maceration, in poultry farming, a method of chick culling
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