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• ballast go
  any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
  
• bedding, bedding material, litter go
  material used to provide a bed for animals
  
• rind go
  the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
  
• precursor go
  a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction)
  
• speck, corpuscle, particle, atom, molecule, mote go
  (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
  
• ammunition go
  any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction
  
• floccule, floc go
  a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid
  
• HAZMAT go
  an abbreviation for `hazardous material' used on warning signs
  
• aggregate go
  material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster
  
• staple, raw material go
  material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
  
• sorbate go
  a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption
  
• sorbent, sorbent material go
  a material that sorbs another substance
  
• diamagnet go
  a substance that exhibits diamagnetism
  
• mineral go
  solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
  
• rock, stone go
  material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
  
• adhesive material, adhesive agent, adhesive go
  a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together
  
• sealing material go
  any substance used to seal joints or fill cracks in a porous surface
  
• animal material go
  material derived from animals
  
• fluff go
  any light downy material
  
• bimetal go
  material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals
  
• abradant, abrasive, abrasive material go
  a substance that abrades or wears down
  
• chemical, chemical substance go
  material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules
  
• composite material go
  strong lightweight material developed in the laboratory
  
• conductor go
  a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat
  
• insulator, dielectric, nonconductor go
  a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity
  
• contamination, contaminant go
  a substance that contaminates
  
• particulate, particulate matter go
  a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant)
  
• dust go
  free microscopic particles of solid material
  
• elastomer go
  any of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed)
  
• ground, earth go
  the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
  
• discharge, emission go
  a substance that is emitted or released
  
• detritus go
  loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks
  
• waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product go
  any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
  
• fiber, fibre go
  a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
  
• filling, fill go
  any material that fills a space or container
  
• foam go
  a lightweight material in cellular form
  
• homogenate go
  material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed)
  
• humate go
  material that is high in humic acids
  
• impregnation go
  material with which something is impregnated
  
• paper go
  a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
  
• packing, packing material, wadding go
  any material used especially to protect something
  
• color, colour, coloring material, colouring material go
  any material used for its color
  
• plant material, plant substance go
  material derived from plants
  
• radioactive material go
  material that is radioactive
  
• thickening, thickener go
  any material used to thicken
  
• toner go
  a black or colored powder used in a printer to develop a xerographic image
  
• transparent substance, translucent substance go
  a material having the property of admitting light diffusely
  
• undercut go
  the material removed by a cut made underneath
  
• builder, detergent builder go
  a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action
  
• vernix, vernix caseosa go
  a white cheeselike protective material that covers the skin of a fetus
  
• wad go
  a small mass of soft material