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What is a residuum?

What is a residuum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The residue, remainder or rest of something
  2. (chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
  3. (fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows:
  4. (law) The residue of an estate
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But figuring out exactly how to regenerate ammonia borane from the residuum left after hydrogen has been extracted remains a stumbling block.
This SSB product contains no residuum and low sulphur content, providing an attractive feedstock to refineries.
The barite ore is massive and occurs within residuum derived from carbonate units.
From balsam of copaiba, by distilling off the oil until the residuum assumes the consistence of an extract.
All the rest of the state was a mere unprivatisable residuum, which had to be preserved for electoral reasons but which would never be much good.
But solutions can also form deposits by dissolving and removing valueless material, leaving a residuum of less-soluble ore minerals.

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