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PROSPECTING DISH

Specialty Definition: PROSPECTING DISH

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Mining

A simple appliance used in the search for gold and other heavy minerals. By means of water washing, the lighter, worthless material is separated from the valuable, heavier minerals, which are made visible by concentration and retention in the dish. Standard dishes with sloping sides are made in sizes ranging from top diameter 10 to 18 in (25 to 46 cm) and from 2 to 4 in (5 to 10 cm) deep, with riffles or grooves toretain the heavy minerals. Syn:pan. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PROSPECTING DISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-h-i-i-n-o-p-p-r-s-s-t"

-2 letters: inspectorship.

-3 letters: descriptions, predisposing.

-4 letters: description, discretions, editorships, hotpressing, nightscopes, predictions, princeships, prospecting, redisposing, springtides, topdressing, trichinoses.

-5 letters: censorship, chippering, chondrites, choppering, choppiness, depictions, depositing, digestions, digression, directions, discepting, discretion, disorients, dispersing, dispersion, disporting, dissecting, dissection, disserting, dripstones, editorship, hedonistic, inspectors, isentropic, nephrotics, nightdress, nightscope, nightsides, oppressing, orchitises, perditions, persisting, pinstriped, pinstripes, precisions, predicting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PROSPECTING DISH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 4F 53 50 45 43 54 49 4E 47      44 49 53 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000100 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#68 &#73 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0053 0050 0045 0043 0054 0049 004E 0047      0044 0049 0053 0048

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5052495350393754434841238435342

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