clarifier

Example Sentences

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Only two of the three giant blue clarifier tanks at the plant are operable, and the district is deeply in debt.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2019

The honey is fed into the clarifier where any excess wax will separate and rise to the surface to be removed.

From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2018

Secondary wastewater clarifier tanks and sludge digesters both do their work with beneficial microorganisms.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2017

It becomes a search mechanism and a clarifier for identity.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2016

The charcoal makes a good fuel and is valuable for smelting iron, tin and copper, in the manufacture of gunpowder, as an insulating material, and as a clarifier in sugar refineries.

From The School Book of Forestry by Pack, Charles Lathrop