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Six example sentences with compounding, each labelled with its topic.
The pharmacy handles compounding on site, mixing two liquids into a single syrup a child will actually swallow.
Medicine
Her method is a compounding of pigment, wax, and marble dust into a paste that dries like stone.
Art
The compounding of ash, lime, and seawater gave Roman builders a concrete that hardened underwater.
Architecture
Curry powder began as a compounding of a dozen spices into one blend that shopkeepers could sell in a tin.
Cooking
German poets delight in the compounding of two plain nouns into a single word no dictionary has yet recorded.
Literature
Tire factories call the compounding of raw rubber, carbon black, and sulfur the step that decides how long a tread lasts.
Technology
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