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"ref": "2009, Bill (B. R.) Greg, Gary L. Billups, “Gravity Separator”, in Seed Conditioning, volume 2 (Technology Part-A; Advanced-level Information for Managers, Technical Specialists, Professionals), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press; Enfield, N.H.: Science Publishers, page 518",
"text": "More or lesser amounts of middlings are always formed, and must be reprocessed to salvage the good seed it contains. The middlings fraction can be re-separated over the gravity separator to salvage the good seed. […] To salvage its good seed, middlings are re-separated over the gravity. This spreads the middlings out further over the deck, and produces a closer separation of good seed from the undesirable material.",
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},
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"text": "More or lesser amounts of middlings are always formed, and must be reprocessed to salvage the good seed it contains. The middlings fraction can be re-separated over the gravity separator to salvage the good seed. […] To salvage its good seed, middlings are re-separated over the gravity. This spreads the middlings out further over the deck, and produces a closer separation of good seed from the undesirable material.",
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