freeze-drying

freeze-drying
/freez"druy"ing/, n.
a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
[1940-45]

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