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Update of the Oxford English Dictionary

In the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary, there are a whole new batch of silly words and definitions including several initialisms — abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of expressions — made popular through their frequent use in text messages, tweets, or emails. The experts at Oxford Dictionaries Online explain that the initialisms added to the dictionary are "noteworthy" and even happen to be "found outside of electronic contexts" at times, and we believe them. After all, how could these language authorities not add initialisms and words like this to the dictionary without a good reason: • couch surfing • ego-surfing • hentai • la-la land • LOL • meep • muffin top • OMG • party-crashing • wassup Our favorite thing in this entire update though? A tweak to the definition of 'heart': ♥ to heart The new sense added to heart v. in this update may be the first English usage to develop via the medium of T-shirts and bumper-stickers. It or

Evaporate in a kitchen.

Evaporate The rotary evaporator combines evaporation under vacuum and condensation (liquid-gas-liquid). This process is called distillation and the purpose is to separate a given mixture into its components based on their respective volatilities. It is explored by creative chefs for two main purposes: To concentrate non-volatile components in a mixture (for example, concentrating the purest and freshest flavors from a blood orange by removing the water) To extract the volatile aroma and flavor molecules from mixtures gently and at low temperatures (for example, extracting the desired flavors from a blend of alcohol, herbs, and fruit without heating the mixture up). Compared to standard distillation processes, the significant difference of the technique with the PolyScience Culinary Rotary Evaporator Kit is the lower temperatures required for evaporation. The key point to this technique is the gentle, precise, and efficient separation of food compounds without altering them. Two key com